[CPEO-MEF] REGULATION: GSA-EPA agreement at Bannister Federal Complex (MO)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Feds agree to cleanup at Bannister plant

By KAREN DILLON
Kansas City Star (MO)
April 30, 2010

A landmark agreement between two federal agencies today will result in a 
cleanup at part of the Bannister Federal Complex where workers have 
complained of health problems.

The agreement targets the roughly 40 percent of the complex owned by the 
General Services Administration. The GSA will begin immediately 
assessing the pollution at its site and will provide a work plan in 60 
days, according to the agreement.

The Environmental Protection Agency engineered the agreement, which is 
legally binding and sets up penalties if investigations, analysis and 
excavation of chemicals are not done properly or within a certain 
schedule. The agreement states it is not any sort of admission by GSA.

"EPA's duty to protect the environment and public health also gives our 
agency powerful tools to help everyone concerned accomplish the 
long-term productive use of the Bannister Federal Complex property," 
said Karl Brooks, newly appointed EPA regional administrator.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/04/30/1914043/feds-agree-to-cleanup-at-bannister.html

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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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