[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Ft. Monmouth (NJ) Finding of No Significant Impact

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army's findings on fort contamination criticized
Army: Environmental studies being prepared

BY DANIEL HOWLEY
Atlanticville (NJ)
November 19, 2009

The Eatontown Environmental Commission is calling on the Department of 
the Army to conduct an in-depth study of environmental contamination at 
Fort Monmouth before turning property over to the fort's three host towns.

"I feel that we need more information to make a better decision on 
what's going on [at Fort Monmouth]," Environmental Commission Chairman 
Edward Dlugosz said at the Nov. 4 council workshop meeting.

Dlugosz, a member of the fort's Restoration Advisory Board (RAB), made 
the request after the Army released a draft of a Finding of No 
Significant Impact (FONSI) report.

"I don't feel that the town can afford to go forward without 
understanding all of the [environmental] impacts, all of the remedies 
and the time frames and the cost that will be involved," he said.

Dlugosz said the Army should produce a more thorough Environmental 
Impact Statement (EIS) instead.



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For the entire article, see
http://atlanticville.gmnews.com/news/2009/1119/front_page/002.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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