[CPEO-MEF] California to take over Rocketdyne

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

State to take over former Rocketdyne site

Ventura County Star (CA)
October 12, 2007

The Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a former rocket engine and nuclear 
test site in the hills south of Simi Valley, will be transferred to the 
state and off-limits to development if a tentative agreement between its 
owner, The Boeing Co., and the state becomes binding.

The potential transfer is part of a complicated deal that was part of an 
announcement Friday by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger¹s office that the 
governor would sign a bill that mandates Boeing to clean the 2,849-acre 
site to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency¹s highest standards before 
it is released for development.

The bill, SB 990 was proposed by Senator Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica, 
and its passage in the Assembly last month, capped a six-year 
legislative battle to ensure strict cleanup standards are used at the 
field laboratory, which has both chemical and radioactive contamination.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2007/oct/12/state-take-over-former-rocketdyne-site/
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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