[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, DISPOSAL: Kirtland Air Force Base (NM) settlement

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State, Kirtland AFB reach $10.5M settlement

New Mexico Business Weekly
September 30, 2009

The New Mexico Environment Department has reached a settlement agreement 
with Kirtland Air Force Base that mandates $10.5 million in improvements.

The agreement with the U.S. Air Force is over hazardous waste management 
procedures at the Albuquerque base’s aging bulk fuel storage facility 
and open burn unit.

Under the agreement, Kirtland must replace the fuel storage facility and 
cease operations of a treatment unit that burns hazardous waste 
munitions. The agreement settles the Department’s assessment of fines 
for alleged violations, some of which were brought to light as a result 
of self-disclosures by Kirtland and some of which came through a July 
2008 compliance inspection by the Environment Department.


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For the entire article, see
http://albuquerque.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/2009/09/28/daily33.html

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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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