[CPEO-MEF] CONTRACTOR, MUNITIONS: Textron Natural Resources Damages at MMR (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Textron money offered


By George Brennan
Cape Cod Times (MA)
October 16, 2008

SANDWICH - About 50 people, most of them town officials from Upper Cape 
towns, listened last night as guidelines were set for spending $1 
million received in a settlement with a defense contractor.

The state will begin accepting proposals for the so-called Textron money 
next month. Textron, a defense contractor that tested munitions on the 
Massachusetts Military Reservation, admitted responsibility for some of 
the pollution contaminating groundwater beneath the base.

Dale Young, director of the state's Natural Resources Damages agency, 
said projects must "restore, replace or acquire the equivalent of 
groundwater resources" to be eligible for the Textron money. Priority 
will be given to projects that can be completed using the settlement 
money, she said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081016/NEWS/810160323/-1/NEWSLETTER100

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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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