[CPEO-MEF] FUDS: Former Macon Naval Ordnance Landfill (GA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bibb sites could land on Superfund list

By S. Heather Duncan
Macon Telegraph (GA)
February 19, 2009


With an eye to forcing any past polluters to pay for cleanup, 
environmental regulators plan to evaluate whether two Bibb County 
properties should be added to a federal list of the dirtiest sites in 
America.

The former Macon Naval Ordnance Landfill and neighboring Allied 
Industrial Park on Guy Paine Road could become eligible for millions of 
dollars in federal cleanup money if they are added to the National 
Priority List, commonly known as the Superfund list.

But the Superfund process also involves investigating who is responsible 
for the contamination and pursuing them to pay for the cleanup first — 
with the ability to sue for the cost if they refuse, said Don Rigger, 
Superfund branch chief for the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s 
Southeast region.

Among the potential polluters are the Department of Defense, which 
operated a naval ordnance plant at the site, and Armstrong World 
Industries Inc., EPA officials said Wednesday.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.macon.com/543/story/624929.html
--


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>
http://www.cpeo.org


_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org