[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION - Curtis Bay (MD) thorium and W.R. Grace

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Grace to pay for Md. cleanup
Curtis Bay work may cost firm $41 million

By Tricia Bishop
Baltimore Sun (MD)
March 19, 2008

W.R. Grace & Co. has agreed to pay 40 percent of the cost - a share 
estimated to be about $41 million - to clean up contamination at 
Baltimore's Curtis Bay, where the company extracted radioactive thorium 
from ore in the 1950s, according to a settlement agreement.

The federal government, which employed Grace as a contractor at the 
time, will cover 60 percent of the bill. The work will be performed 
during the next five years if it's approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court 
in Delaware, which is overseeing Grace's reorganization. A hearing is 
set for April 21.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been negotiating the deal for two 
years, said Chanel Weaver, a spokeswoman for the Baltimore district 
office. It has been approved by the U.S. Department of Justice, she 
said, adding that the site poses no public danger.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-bz.curtisbay19mar19,0,3024001.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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