Re: [CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, REGULATION: Camp Bonneville (WA) Superfund petition

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Superfund status for Camp Bonneville?
EPA says it is reviewing petition for greater federal oversight

By Erik Robinson
The Columbian (WA)
February 6, 2009

Citing a lack of oversight and spiraling costs, a local environmental 
activist on Thursday petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
to declare an old Army artillery range a Superfund cleanup site before 
it’s turned into a county park.

Dvija Michael Bertish, representing Columbia Riverkeeper and the 
Rosemere Neighborhood Association, noted that the EPA opted out of 
oversight of the cleanup of Camp Bonneville in 2003.

"Members of the public firmly believe that this project requires EPA to 
re-engage and list this site on the National Priorities List to achieve 
a higher level of oversight and to ensure public health and safety," 
Bertish wrote in the petition dated Tuesday.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090206/NEWS02/702069924

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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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