[CPEO-MEF] Superfund for Rocketdyne (CA)?

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Santa Susana Field Lab nears Superfund status

By Kerry Cavanaugh
Los Angeles Daily News
December 7, 2007

The Santa Susana Field Lab should be listed as a high-priority cleanup,
with closer scrutiny by federal authorities of the site's extensive
chemical and radioactive contamination, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's regional office announced Friday.

After a seven-month review of the 2,850-acre hilltop site, the EPA's
regional team found that contamination at the site poses enough of a
threat to human health and the environment to be added to the National
Priorities List, also called the Superfund program.

Lab watchdogs and neighbors have pushed for Superfund status - which is
reserved for the nation's worst contaminated sites - that would give the
EPA authority to conduct a new investigation and oversee cleanup at the lab.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailynews.com/breakingnews/ci_7666784

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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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