[CPEO-MEF] Lake Ontario Ordnance Works (NY) RAB

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

LOOW: Corps to steer clear of current advisory board

By Dan Miner
Niagara Gazette (NY)
January 29, 2008

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to discontinue its efforts 
working with the Lake Ontario Ordnance Works Restoration Advisory Board 
- and possibly establish a new board instead.

Corps Buffalo District Commander Lt. John Hurley broke the news to RAB 
Steering Committee Chairman Walt Garrow in a two-page letter dated Jan. 
28, only three days after the groups met to discuss the RAB's status.

"The Corps appreciates the dedicated efforts of your group, respects 
your concerns and your spirit of volunteerism," said Hurley's letter. 
"However, your citizen-based volunteer group is not a Department of 
Defense (DoD) RAB."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.niagara-gazette.com/local/local_story_029205407.html



I find this last statement troubling and confusing, because for some 
time the Corps has been maintaining a web page for the existing group at
http://www.lrb.usace.army.mil/derpfuds/loow/rab/

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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