[CPEO-MEF] REGULATION: Federal Facilities Agreement disputes

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Pentagon Fights EPA On Pollution Cleanup

By Lyndsey Layton
Washington Post
June 30, 2008

The Defense Department, the nation's biggest polluter, is resisting 
orders from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up Fort Meade 
and two other military bases where the EPA says dumped chemicals pose 
"imminent and substantial" dangers to public health and the environment.

The Pentagon has also declined to sign agreements required by law that 
cover 12 other military sites on the Superfund list of the most polluted 
places in the country. The contracts would spell out a remediation plan, 
set schedules, and allow the EPA to oversee the work and assess 
penalties if milestones are missed.

The actions are part of a standoff between the Pentagon and 
environmental regulators that has been building during the Bush 
administration, leaving the EPA in a legal limbo as it addresses growing 
concerns about contaminants on military bases that are seeping into 
drinking water aquifers and soil.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901977.html?hpid=topnews

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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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