[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION - Park Township, Armstrong County (PA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

News Release
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
February 12, 2008

Pennsylvania DEP, EPA to Oversee, Monitor Clean Up Work at Armstrong 
County Site

LEECHBURG, Pa. PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- During a site visit and tour of 
the shallow land disposal area in Park Township, Armstrong County, 
Environmental Protection Deputy Secretary Tom Fidler today outlined how 
the department will work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and 
federal Environmental Protection Agency to clean up the radiological 
waste disposed at the facility.

Fidler said now that funding has been appropriated, a tremendous 
opportunity exists to benefit the community.

"It is important to seize the opportunity now that Congress has provided 
the Corps of Engineers the funding to support this clean up," said 
Fidler. "We are prepared to work with the EPA to oversee remediation 
activities at this site to ensure that it is once again an asset to the 
community, rather than a liability."

The U.S. Congress appropriated funds and authorized the Corps of 
Engineers to clean up the site under the Formerly Utilized Remedial 
Action Program. Funding constraints within the program, though, may 
extend the length of the project by up to five years if work needs to be 
conducted in phases. Alternatively, ranking the site as an EPA Superfund 
project could force remediation work to take 10-20 years.


For the entire press release, see
http://www.prnewswire.com/ and do a search for "Leechburg"

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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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