[CPEO-MEF] Tyndall Air Force Base (FL) responds

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Tyndall: We have been cleaning up

Panama City News Herald (FL)
November 22, 2007

Tyndall Air Force Base officials say they have been working for more 
than a decade to clean up contaminated areas there, including Shoal 
Point Bayou, a Superfund site.

In a news release Wednesday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
announced it "is taking a major step toward cleaning up" Tyndall by 
"compelling the Air Force to properly conduct the cleanup. EPA is 
issuing an Order under Section 7003(a) of the Resource Conservation and 
Recovery Act (RCRA), which requires the Air Force to investigate 
contamination at the base and take action to clean it up."

In an e-mail response to The News Herald, Tyndall spokeswoman Melissa 
Porter said "it would be premature for us to comment on the Order 
mentioned in the EPA press release since we have not seen the actual 
Order they are referring to."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newsherald.com/headlines/article.display.php?a=4530

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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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