[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, REUSE: Grant Housing Area, Ft. Devens, MA

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army taking input for final remediation of Grant area

By Don Eriksson
Nashoba Publishing (MA)
September 26, 2008

DEVENS -- The Army is soliciting public comment on its proposed remedy 
plan for the former Grant Housing Area and an adjoining 37mm impact area 
on the northern slope of Oak Hill in anticipation of making a record of 
decision for remediation in November.

The public comment period is from Sept. 10 through Oct. 10, said Robert 
Simeone, Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) environmental coordinator 
at this month's Restoration Advisory Board meeting.

Hard copies of the proposed plan are available for viewing at the Ayer 
and Harvard libraries.

The proposed plan summarizes the background and characteristics of the 
housing and impact area, offers alternative solutions to protect public 
health and welfare from Munitions and Explosives of Concern (MEC) which 
at this point are negligible. But there is a potential for residual 
scrap material, Simeone said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nashobapublishing.com/ci_10565391

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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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