[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, REGULATION: Livermore Lab (CA) restarts treatment system

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

U.S. EPA Region 9
News Release
April 1, 2009


DOE agrees to resume toxic waste cleanup at Bay Area Superfund site / 
Agency to pay $165,000 for shutting down cleanup systems at nuclear 
weapons research site


(San Francisco, Calif. -- 04/01/2009) The U.S. Department of Energy has 
agreed to resume cleanup of toxic waste at its Lawrence Livermore 
National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., after the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency notified the department in early January that it must 
immediately restart the shuttered treatment facilities or face 
escalating fines.

DOE will pay a $165,000 fine for shutting down the cleanup systems and 
failing to restart them as requested by the EPA. Recent sampling showed 
that the closure of a large treatment unit on the perimeter of the site 
had resulted in a loss of control of the contaminated groundwater plume 
offsite.

"We're pleased to have reached an agreement with DOE to resume cleanup," 
said Michael Montgomery, Superfund's assistant director for the EPA's 
Pacific Southwest region. "The taxpayer's investment in building these 
cleanup facilities will once again be working to protect the environment."

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For the entire press release, see
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/36ac069824f24ff48525758b005d7f0a?OpenDocument

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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