[CPEO-MEF] Rialto (CA) perchlorate site and Superfund

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA's role may grow in Rialto cleanup

By Jason Pesick
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (CA)
August 31, 2007

RIALTO - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is likely to play a 
larger role in cleaning up drinking water contaminated with perchlorate 
around the city.

That's the word after a meeting on Thursday in San Francisco of city and 
EPA officials.

"We haven't made up our mind," Superfund project manager Wayne Praskins 
said of how the EPA plans to move forward.

"Proposing to add the site to (the Superfund program) is on the table 
here, and an increased EPA role in working with the (potentially 
responsible parties) is on the table."

The Superfund is a federal program to clean up the nation's uncontrolled 
hazardous waste sites.

Rialto officials have resisted becoming a Superfund site.



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http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_6765305

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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