[CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITIES: Hunters Point RAB (San Francisco, CA) disbanded

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Eliminating dissent

U.S. Navy dissolves Hunters Point Shipyard citizens' comments just as 
toxic cleanup enters critical phase

By Sarah Phelan
San Francisco Bay Guardian
June 17, 2009

For years, the Hunters Point Shipyard Restoration Advisory Board has 
served as the Bayview-Hunters Point community's main voice in the U.S. 
Navy's environmental cleanup plans for the toxic former naval station. 
But the committee is suddenly being disbanded just as the cleanup enters 
a crucial phase.

Used for shipbuilding and submarine maintenance and repair, and the 
decontamination, storage, and disposal of radioactive and atomic weapons 
testing materials, the shipyard was added to the Superfund national 
toxic site cleanup list in 1989. But it is also at the heart of where 
Mayor Gavin Newsom has partnered with Lennar Corp. on the city's biggest 
development proposal, involving 10,500 homes and a new stadium for the 
49ers.

As the Navy prepares to release a series of important studies and 
reports concerning the cleanup of the dirtiest parcels on the former 
shipyard, community members were outraged by the Navy's announcement in 
late May that it is preparing to dissolve the RAB in the next 30 days.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=8717&volume_id=398&issue_id=436&volume_num=43&issue_num=38

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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
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