2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 1 Sep 2007 01:07:59 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Ft. Meade (MD) dispute
 
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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