[CPEO-MEF] Marianas ordnance permit

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

EPA issues draft permit for unexploded ordnance management

By Emmanuel T. Erediano
Marianas Variety (CNMI)
December 14, 2007

THE U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has prepared a draft permit or
remedial action plan allowing the CNMI [Commonwealth of the Northern
Marianaa Islands] to handle unexploded ordnance, or UXO.

The Department of Public Safety applied for a remedial action plan which
will serve as “an appropriate permit for storage and treatment of UXOs
or munitions and explosive concerns.”

The Northern Marianas was the scene of some of the Pacific’s bloodiest
World War II battles.

Because UXOs pose a serious threat to public health and environment, the
CNMI has employed trained experts to discover, store and detonate the
ordnance.

UXOs are detonated at a designated area in Marpi Point and is conducted
by the Department of Public Safety and a U.S. Navy explosive and
ordnance disposal unit.

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http://www.mvariety.com/?module=displaystory&story_id@03&format=html

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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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