[CPEO-MEF] REGULATION, RADIATION: Energy Department promises for Rocketdyne (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DOE to follow state law in lab cleanup

By Michael Collins
Ventura County Star (CA)
September 19, 2008


WASHINGTON - A top official with the U.S. Department of Energy promised 
Thursday that the federal agency would comply with a new California law 
during the cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory.

Frank Marcinowski, a deputy assistant secretary in the agency's Office 
of Environmental Management, also pledged the agency would not stand in 
the way of a comprehensive investigation of radioactive chemical 
contamination at the site south of Simi Valley.

Marcinowski made his commitments to the Santa Susana project while under 
questioning by U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, who chairs a committee that held 
a hearing on cleanup activities at Santa Susana and other toxic waste 
sites across the country.

Environmental groups say the federal government has been sending signals 
that it did not intend to comply with the California law, which mandates 
the complete chemical and radioactive cleanup of the laboratory site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2008/sep/19/doe-to-follow-state-law-in-lab-cleanup/

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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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