[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, FUDS: "Tougher Standards To Affect Missile Site Cleanups"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[I don't believe that "a tougher standard for TCE won't necessarily add 
much expense to cleaning up" groundwater, unless one concludes that the 
neither the old standard nor the new standard can be reached. - LS]

Tougher Standards To Affect Missile Site Cleanups

MEAD GRUVER
Associated Press
March 22, 2010

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Plans by the Environmental Protection Agency to 
set a tougher standard for the amount of a toxic chemical allowed in 
drinking water will raise the bar for cleaning up contaminated 
groundwater near old nuclear missile sites.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced Monday that the agency will 
issue new rules for cancer-causing trichloroethylene and another 
chemical, tetrachloroethylene, within the next year.

The announcement reflects advancing cleanup technology and the current 
ability to detect TCE in quantities as small as 0.5 parts per billion, 
said Cheryl Davis, an environmental scientist with the Army Corps of 
Engineers in Omaha, Neb.

Francis, a geological supervisor with the Wyoming Department of 
Environmental Quality, said the federal agency previously has discussed 
a limit of five parts per billion.


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For the entire article, see
http://cbs11tv.com/wireapnewstx/New.EPA.water.2.1581115.html

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Lenny Siegel
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