[CPEO-MEF] Schwarzenegger and Rocketdyne (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

The Promised Land
Gov. Schwarzenegger terminates the uncertainty of Rocketdyne cleanup 
with historic move that keeps California in charge – for now

By MICHAEL COLLINS
Ventura County Reporter (CA)
January 24, 2008

t was a move as deft as any he has ever made in his action films, this 
time potentially saving countless real lives. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger 
empowered the state's Secretary for Environmental Protection, Linda 
Adams, to hammer out a deal with environmentalists to make sure that 
California remains in charge of the multimillion dollar cleanup of 
Boeing's Santa Susana Field Laboratory in the hills above Simi Valley. 
The governor has committed that the place be cleaned up to the highest 
standards possible.

The Jan. 15 deal leaves the state's Department of Toxic Substances 
Control in charge of the upcoming cleanup of the 2,850-acre lab, 
commonly known as Rocketdyne, where the nation's worst nuclear meltdown 
occurred in 1959. Years of accidental and deliberate chemical and 
radiological mishaps and dumping have left Rocketdyne intensely 
contaminated, according to a number of studies. January 24, 2008

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For the entire article, see
http://www.vcreporter.com/article.php?id=5661&IssueNum=160

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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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