[CPEO-MEF] FUDS: Unalaska (AK) PCBs

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City continues slow-moving PCB lawsuit

KUCB News (AK)
January 29, 2010

UNALASKA, AK - The city is still pursuing the slow process of suing the 
federal government for PCB clean-up costs. Last year the city filed a 
civil suit against the military in an attempt to get $4 million dollars 
for cleaning up PCBs at the powerhouse site. The city argues that the 
PCB contamination was from electric transformers brought in by the 
military during World War II, and the federal government should pay the 
clean up costs. The military disagrees.

The civil suit process is slow. City attorney Brooks Chandler said both 
sides are currently collecting information about the situation and doing 
historical research. The city is especially interested in anyone who 
recalls any clean-up efforts from 1978 to the mid 1980s.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kial/news.newsmain/article/1/0/1606101/Local.News/City.continues.slow-moving.PCB.lawsuit

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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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