[CPEO-MEF] EXPANSION: Sutley visits Guam

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Obama's environment advisor visits

Sutley: White House is committed to revised EIS

By Steve Limtiaco
Pacific Daily News (GU)
March 23, 2010


The president's chief environmental adviser yesterday said the Obama 
administration is committed to getting an environmental impact statement 
for the pending military buildup that adequately describes the impacts 
and how to address them.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in February called the draft 
Environmental Impact Statement for the buildup "environmentally 
unsatisfactory," and said the buildup will make the island's existing 
water problems worse. The military plans to transfer 8,000 Marines and 
their dependents to a new base on Guam by 2014.

"We are here to hear from Guam residents and leaders about the concerns 
they have, the issues they have," said Nancy Sutley, chairwoman of the 
White House Council on Environmental Quality, during a brief press 
conference yesterday afternoon outside the University of Guam's marine 
laboratory. "We are here as a federal family to listen to what the 
people of Guam have to say."

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For the entire article, se
http://www.guampdn.com/article/20100323/NEWS01/3230303

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Lenny Siegel
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