[CPEO-MEF] Ft. Meade (MD) dispute

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army and EPA differ on cleanup
Officials on both sides say order is entangled in bureaucracy

By Bradley Olson
Baltimore Sun (MD)
August 31, 2007

The Environmental Protection Agency's order this week that the Army 
clean up 17 hazardous-waste sites at Fort Meade and the nearby Patuxent 
Research Refuge has more to do with a bureaucratic entanglement than the 
continuing $100 million decontamination effort, several officials on 
both sides said.

Army officials, who have long argued that the cleanup of four parcels 
should be enough for the regulatory agency to take the base off its 
Superfund list of the nation's most polluted sites, said Wednesday that 
they have until the middle of September to respond to the order. They 
could consider several appeal options, all of which would lengthen the 
nearly three-year-old negotiating process with the EPA.

The Army could even go so far as to file suit, something one community 
official urged against at Wednesday night's meeting of the Restoration 
Advisory Board, a federally mandated oversight body of residents and 
personnel with the Army and the EPA.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-ar.meade31aug31,0,2135400.story

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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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