[CPEO-MEF] Hill Air Force Base (UT) cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Hill AFB team picks up $2.1 million cleanup tab

By Joseph M. Dougherty
Deseret Morning News (UT)
December 22, 2007

HILL AIR FORCE BASE - Hill Air Force Base's environmental restoration 
team has picked up a $2.1 million tab to clean up potentially 
carcinogenic PCBs from soil in one area of base housing.

The team plans to ask the U.S. Air Force to reimburse Hill for the 
cleanup and to provide the base with a further $500,000 for follow-up 
operations.

In February, when Boyer Hill Military Housing tested the soil for 
pesticides around the homes, located on the base's west side, tests came 
back with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. PCBs are a mixture of 209 
chemicals that were produced until 1977 and were used as an insulating 
material in transformers and other electrical equipment.

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For the entire article, see
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695238169,00.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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