[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, REGULATION: Santa Susana Lab (CA) survey

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

EPA set to take charge of survey at Field Lab
Energy Department criticized for work at contaminated site

By Teresa Rochester
Ventura County Star (CA)
July 20, 2008


The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is poised to take control of a 
long-sought survey of radiation contamination at the Santa Susana Field 
Laboratory, a sprawling hilltop facility south of Simi Valley.

The survey, which will focus on an area where nuclear testing took place 
and an adjacent buffer zone, was supposed to be a joint effort of the 
EPA and the Department of Energy.

But requests from members of California's congressional delegation that 
the EPA take the lead - and a scathing July 2 letter from the 
environmental agency, charging the Energy Department with a lack of 
transparency and threatening to pull the EPA's participation - have 
resulted in a solo project.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/20/epa-set-to-take-charge-of-survey-at-field-lab/

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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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