[CPEO-MEF] Rocketdyne (CA) timeline

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Boeing meets deadline, provides cleanup schedule for field lab
The firm was ordered to specify a timeline for the decontamination of 
the old Rocketdyne site.

By Gregory W. Griggs
Los Angeles Times
November 16, 2007

Boeing Co. and its operating partners at a former nuclear research and 
rocket engine testing facility near Simi Valley met a state-imposed 
deadline this week to propose precise deadlines covering the next decade 
of its long-term cleanup effort.

The state Department of Toxic Substances Control required Boeing, 
majority owner of the Santa Susana Field Lab, and the U.S. Department of 
Energy and NASA to submit by Wednesday their tentative schedule for 
complying with a consent decree issued in August.

The operators were ordered to specify when they planned to analyze the 
levels of chemical and radioactive contamination at the 2,850-acre 
hilltop site, which has been divided into 10 geographic sections, and 
conduct the necessary cleanup. The state agency set a 10-year deadline 
for the soil at the field lab to be cleaned to acceptable standards and 
for long-term water-cleaning processes to be installed and operating.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-rocket16nov16,1,5062401.story?coll=la-headlines-california&ctrack=1&cset=true

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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
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