[CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITY, FUDS: Lak Ontario Ordnance Works (NY) - No RAB

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Corps of Engineers drops plans for advisory panel on contaminated site 
in Niagara County

By Aaron Besecker
Buffalo News (NY)
July 3, 2008

The federal agency responsible for cleaning up radiological and chemical 
contamination in Lewiston and Porter has announced it has dropped plans 
to form a new advisory board for the site.

The Army Corps of Engineers had announced in late January it was 
beginning the process of restructuring the vehicle for public input for 
the former Lake Ontario Ordnance Works.

But after soliciting comments on the proposal, Lt. Col. John S. Hurley, 
commander of the Corps' Buffalo district, said in a statement he did not 
find "sufficient community interest" to move ahead with forming an 
"official" Restoration Advisory Board.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.buffalonews.com/258/story/384166.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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