[CPEO-MEF] REGULATION: Ft. Meade and the Justice Department ruling

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

U.S. order may hasten cleanup at Fort Meade

By David Wood
Baltimore Sun (MD)
December 5, 2008

To comply with a Justice Department ruling this week, the Pentagon might 
have to pick up the pace in cleaning heavy metals and other 
contamination at Fort Meade that fouled nearby wells and forced 
evacuations of base housing.

In an advisory letter to the Pentagon intended to settle a lengthy 
dispute among federal agencies, the Justice Department said that the 
military must obey an "imminent and substantial endangerment" order 
issued by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2007 for Fort Meade and 
other Defense Department facilities in New Jersey and Florida.

Until now, the Pentagon had argued that the EPA had only limited 
authority over those facilities.

The legal opinion was long sought by Maryland officials, who have 
complained that the Army has dragged its feet in the decades-long 
cleanup effort required by federal law.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-meade1205,0,2016458.story

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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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