[CPEO-MEF] REGULATION: Santa Susan Field Lab (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Agencies split on field lab
Superfund issue debated

By Teresa Rochester
Ventura County Star (CA)
November 23, 2008


A public battle has erupted between state and federal agencies over the 
cleanup of a former rocket-engine and nuclear test site south of Simi 
Valley that is contaminated with chemical and radiological pollution.

State officials and citizen watchdogs accused the U.S. Department of 
Energy and NASA of trying to skirt a California law that took effect 
Jan. 1 calling for the Santa Susana Field Laboratory to be cleaned up to 
the strictest federal standards possible, under state oversight.

In October, the federal Energy Department and NASA urged the U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency to designate the field lab as a 
Superfund site and serve as the lead regulatory agency as soon as feasible.

The EPA previously promised to defer its decision until spring 2009 and 
to give Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger until Jan. 15 to decide whether to 
concur with the Superfund listing. At this time, the state does not 
support listing the field lab as a Superfund site, said Norman Riley, 
the field lab project director for California's Department of Toxic 
Substances Control. The EPA has never designated a site for Superfund 
status if a state's governor did not agree with the listing.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2008/nov/23/agencies-split-on-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
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