[CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITY, FUDS: Lake Ontario Ordance Works (NY) Advisory Board

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Volunteers overseeing site cleanup feel at risk
Army Corps creating new advisory group

By Aaron Besecker
Buffalo News (NY)
May 28, 2008

LEWISTON - A volunteer group overseeing the cleanup of World War II-era 
radiological and chemical contamination in northwest Niagara County 
doesn't have much going for it these days.

The federal agency responsible for the site says it's moving ahead with 
replacing the group with a previously established structure that had 
been overhauled because members say it didn't work.

Regulators have yet to respond to a stinging rebuke from State Attorney 
General Andrew M. Cuomo, even though it has been nearly two months since 
he challenged them.

Members are still looking for support from federal representatives, even 
though the group has been dealing with issues, including access to 
information, for nearly two years.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/357028.html

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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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