[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Bannister Federal Complex, Kansas City, MO

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Leaked documents show the GSA knew about contamination at Bannister 
Federal Complex

By Nadia Pflaum in Follow That Story
Kansas City Pitch
January 27 2010

Russ Ptacek's continuing investigation for Channel 41 regarding sick 
employees at the Bannister Federal Complex -- sick workers employed 
outside the Honeywell factory, from the neighboring General Services 
Administration and IRS facilities in the complex -- has yielded a major 
bombshell (no pun intended).

A government insider leaked a letter to Ptacek from the Missouri 
Department of Natural Resources to the GSA administrators of the 
Bannister facility, urging them to follow up on several environmental 
concerns (emphasis in bold is ours):

...

GSA buildings and a day care area should be more thoroughly checked for 
contamination by TCE (tricholorethylene). "The Department requests that 
the GSA develop a detailed sampling and analysis plan for indoor air 
sampling at the day care center."


...

For the entire article, see
http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2010/01/leaked_documents_show_the_gsa_knew_about_contamination_at_bannister_federal_complex.php

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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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