[CPEO-MEF] Navajo Nation uranium cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA to spend millions a year rebuilding Navajo Nation homes contaminated 
with uranium

FELICIA FONSECA
Associated Press
Baltimore Sun
June 14, 2009


FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) - The federal government plans to spend up to $3 
million a year to demolish and rebuild uranium-contaminated structures 
across the Navajo Nation, where Cold War-era mining of the radioactive 
substance left a legacy of disease and death.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its Navajo counterpart are 
focusing on homes, sheds and other buildings within a half-mile to a 
mile from a significant mine or waste pile. They plan to assess 500 
structures over five years and rebuild those that are too badly 
contaminated.

"These families, with the resources they have, they would not be able to 
put up a new home for themselves," said Lillie Lane, a spokeswoman for 
the Navajo Nation Environmental Protection Agency. "We don't know how 
radiation in the home affected these families, but in the end people 
will be living in safe homes."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/sns-ap-us-navajos-uranium-cleanup,0,3846381.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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