From: | "Steven B. Pollack" <Steve@EcoEsq.com> |
Date: | Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:38:00 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | Re: [CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITY: [Fwd: CSWAB UPDATE: Army Gags Badger RAB Members] |
What authority did the Army cite for the gag order? It sounds very totalitarian as a method of quieting dissenting opinion. Steve Steven B. Pollack, Attorney Executive Director, Blue Eco Legal Council P.O. Box 1370 Highland Park, IL 60035 847-436-9566 www.ecoesq.com www.fireclaimlaw.com > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITY: [Fwd: CSWAB UPDATE: Army Gags Badger RAB > Members] > From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> > Date: Fri, March 19, 2010 2:47 pm > To: Military Environmental Forum <military@lists.cpeo.org> > > > From: Laura Olah <cswab@merr.com> > > > For Immediate Release > For more information contact: > > Laura Olah, Member, Badger Restoration Advisory Board > representing Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger > > Army Gags Badger RAB Members > > Army officials have ordered rural neighbors of Wisconsin's Badger Army > Ammunition Plant to suppress an environmental report by an independent > consultant working with the local Restoration Advisory Board (RAB). > > "Immediately following last night's public meeting, an Army official > pushed a document in front me saying that the gag order recently sent to > our consultant also applies to me," said Laura Olah, a rural neighbor of > the Badger plant and chair of the committee that secured the RAB's > technical advisor. “I was also told to contact anyone who has received a > copy of the report and withdraw it until the Army has first reviewed and > approved it." > > The 11-page technical review, which was simultaneously provided to both > the RAB and the military, is critical of an Army proposal that would > allow higher levels of contamination on properties that are slated for > transfer to the State of Wisconsin, Bluffview Sanitary District, U.S. > Department of Agriculture, and Wisconsin Department of Transportation. > > In particular, the Army wants to designate certain areas at Badger as > "industrial" which would allow the military to leave much higher levels > of soil contamination than currently approved by the Wisconsin DNR. The > Army wants to increase allowed levels of the carcinogenic explosive > 2,6-DNT, for example, from 4.29 to 620 parts per million (ppm). Soil > cleanup goals for lead would increase from 30 to 500 ppm. > > "Having an independent qualified provider contributes to environmental > restoration activities at the plant and will help achieve the best > possible cleanup," Olah added. "Maybe that's what the Army is afraid of." > > The RAB's environmental consultant was hired under a program called > Technical Assistance for Public Participation (TAPP). The federal > program was established by a 1995 amendment to the Defense Authorization > Act co-authored by U.S. Senator Herb Kohl of Wisconsin. The RAB > conducted a national search and selected Virginia-based Environmental > Stewardship Concepts (ESC) as its TAPP advisor in 2008. > > RAB members who supported hiring ESC include Mary Carol Solum (At Large > Member), Paul Herr (Town of Merrimac), Ken Lins (At Large Member), Mary > Jane Koch (At Large Member), Michele Hopp (Village of Merrimac), Laura > Olah (Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger), Charlie Wilhelm, (At Large > Member), Lance Delaney (At Large Member), William T. Stehling (At Large > Member), Richard Anderson (At Large Member), Ron Lins (Town of Prairie > du Sac), O.J. Befera (City of Baraboo), William F. Wenzel (Village of > Prairie du Sac), and Judy Ashford (Sauk County). > > Since 1994, RABs have been established at over 300 installations and > properties in the United States and its territories to encourage > communities and installations to identify and discuss potential > environmental restoration issues. TAPP funding is provided by the > Department of Defense and is available to community members of the RAB > at installations participating in the Defense Environmental Restoration > Program. > > The next meeting of the Badger RAB is scheduled for April 26 beginning > at 6:30 pm at Badger Army Ammunition Plant. All RAB meetings are open > to the public. > > - END - > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Military mailing list > Military@lists.cpeo.org > http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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