[CPEO-MEF] REGULATION: Justice Department upholds EPA orders

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Justice Dept. Says Pentagon Must Comply With EPA Cleanup Orders

By Lyndsey Layton
Washington Post December 5, 2008; A23

The Justice Department dealt a blow to the Pentagon this week, saying it 
has no legal authority to resist orders from the Environmental 
Protection Agency to clean up Fort Meade in Maryland and two other 
military sites that have been contaminated by chemicals.

In a Dec. 1 letter obtained by The Washington Post, Steven G. Bradbury, 
principal deputy assistant attorney general at Justice, said that the 
Pentagon had no legal grounds to resist the cleanup orders from the EPA.

The cleanup agreements drafted by the EPA for nine other sites contain 
"extensive provisions" that Pentagon officials said were unacceptable. 
But Bradbury wrote that the EPA had the legal authority to demand 
additional terms.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/04/AR2008120403653.html?referrer=emailarticlepg

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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
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