[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: U.S. awards contract for Danang, Vietnam Agent Orange cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Step forward for Agent Orange clean-up effort in Vietnam

AFP
October 1, 2009

HANOI — Efforts to clean up contamination from the wartime herbicide 
Agent Orange in Vietnam took a step forward Thursday when the United 
States awarded a contract to prepare for dioxin containment.

The US said the 1.69-million-dollar project will involve building a 
secure landfill site to hold contaminated soil and sediment at Danang 
airport.

Working with the government of Vietnam, the US expects the project to be 
finished within a year, a US embassy press release said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5haib8y9K-bFZW-853S560qPA3e_A

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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