[CPEO-MEF] REGULATION, MUNITIONS: Navy to pay fine at Jackson Park Housing Complex (WA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Jackson Park Impasse Between Navy, EPA Leads to $45,000 Fine

By Christopher Dunagan
Kitsap Sun
November 23, 2009

BREMERTON —

Amid an ongoing dispute with the Environmental Protection Agency, the
Navy has agreed to consider more extensive cleanup options at the
Jackson Park Housing Complex and to pay a $45,000 fine, officials say.

The Navy has been investigating the extent of buried munitions at the
Jackson Park Superfund site, which was operated as a major ammunition
depot during World War II.

The investigation identified about 75,000 buried metallic objects across
the 232-acre property, according to Harry Craig, project manager for the
EPA. Investigators then sampled some 12 to 13 percent of those and found
only five pieces of discarded munitions.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/nov/23/jackson-park-impasse-leads-to-45000-fine/

For EPA's press release, see
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/75fc8c6868b96ab885257678005af21e?OpenDocument

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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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