[CPEO-MEF] FUNDING: Hill Air Force Base (UT)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hill proposes $21.4 million green cleanup

By Joseph M. Dougherty
Deseret News (UT)
February 2, 2009

HILL AIR FORCE BASE - It's no secret that environmental cleanups cost 
money. Hill Air Force Base officials expect to spend $21.4 million on 
Hill's environmental restoration project for fiscal 2010.

That's $70,000 higher than the current year's budget, part of the money 
the U.S. Air Force has set aside for its bases that have been named as 
Superfund sites.

For more than a half century, groundwater plumes contaminated with 
potential carcinogens have been seeping from the base into seven 
surrounding communities: Layton, South Weber, Riverdale, Roy, Sunset, 
Clinton and Clearfield. Other contaminated areas have been found on the 
base, as well.

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For the entire article, see
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705282082,00.html

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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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