[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Ft. Detrick (MD) Area B listing

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Year of requests, negotiations


By Justin M. Palk
Frederick News Post (MD)
June 21, 2008
	

Maryland environmental officials have been trying for a year to get Fort 
Detrick's Area B on the federal government's Superfund National Priority 
List.

In that time, negotiations between post and state officials over a 
framework for cleaning polluted groundwater stalled, and the 
Environmental Protection Agency missed a chance to list the site, said 
Horacio Tablada, director of the Maryland Department of the 
Environment's Waste Management Administration.

The NPL includes the most seriously contaminated sites identified for 
possible long-term cleanup, according to the EPA.

Roxanne Smith, a spokeswoman for the EPA, said she could only reiterate 
the agency's statement from Tuesday that it was reviewing the state's 
request to put Area B on the NPL.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=76573

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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
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