[CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITY: Massachusetts Military Reservation advisory groups merged

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

MMR citizens advisory panels merged
Officials say two separate citizens groups are no longer needed to 
monitor pollution cleanup at Cape military base.

By Jake Berry
Cape Cod Times (MA)
May 1, 2008

The pair of citizen advisory groups monitoring cleanup efforts at the 
Massachusetts Military Reservation will be combined into a single body, 
according to Army and Air Force officials.

For a decade, civilians on the Impact Area Review Team have advised the 
Army Environmental Command's area groundwater study program as it has 
treated contaminated water on the northern portion of the base, while 
the Plume Cleanup Team has guided the Air Force's Installation 
Restoration Program cleanup of the southern portion of the base.

As the two efforts have advanced, they have discovered more common 
ground and less public involvement, ending the need for two separate 
groups, participants say.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080501/NEWS/805010337/-1/NEWSLETTER100

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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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