[CPEO-MEF] Rocketdyne (CA) settlement

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

PAY DIRT
Gov. Schwarzenegger signs Kuehl bill to clean up Rocketdyne to Superfund 
standards; Boeing agrees to pay for remediation and donate lab to State 
for parkland

By Michael Collins
EnviroReporter
October 13, 2007

A decades-long battle over Boeing's massive Santa Susana Field 
Laboratory came to a historic climax on Friday as California Governor 
Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation that would require that the lab 
be cleaned up to the highest Environmental Protection Agency standards 
and turned over to the State as parkland. The bill, SB-990, was authored 
by State Senator Sheila Kuehl (D-Los Angeles) in whose district 
Rocketdyne lies and was greeted with elation by environmentalists who 
have battled the aerospace giant for years over pollution problems 
emanating from the site which suffered a partial meltdown in 1959 that 
was the worst in U.S. history.

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For the entire article, see
http://enviroreporter.com/paydirt.html

See also

Boeing will clean up toxic Santa Susana Field Lab site

BY HARRISON SHEPPARD
LA Daily News
October 12, 2007

SACRAMENTO - In a landmark deal cautiously hailed by community and 
environmental activists, the Boeing Co. agreed on Friday to donate its 
contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory site to the state of 
California for use as open space after cleaning it up to state standards.

The deal - culminating an 18-year controversy since the Daily News 
disclosed toxic contamination of the research site - was negotiated by 
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration.

It calls for the company to contribute $22.5million over 30 years to an 
endowment fund to pay for maintaining the property in the hills above 
Simi Valley and Chatsworth as parkland.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_7165328

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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
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