[CPEO-MEF] PUBLIC, CLOSURE: Hunters Point Shipyard (CA) RAB dissolution

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Hunters Point Residents Angered At Navy Proposal To Shelve Cleanup Committee


KTVU 2 TV News (San Francisco Bay Area)
November 5, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO -- Residents of San Francisco's Bayview District Thursday 
expressed concern about community involvement in the ongoing toxic 
cleanup and redevelopment of the former U.S. Navy shipyard at Hunters 
Point at a Board of Supervisors committee hearing.

The Government Audit and Oversight Committee Thursday afternoon passed a 
resolution authored by Supervisor John Avalos calling on the Navy to 
reconsider its plan to dissolve the Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) for 
Hunters Point.

The Navy earlier this year sent a notice of its intention to end the 
committee, which includes members of the Bayview community, Navy 
officials and environmental regulators and met regularly to discuss the 
ongoing cleanup efforts of the 900-acre former shipyard, which was found 
to be contaminated by toxic metals and petroleum waste.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.ktvu.com/news/21537750/detail.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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