[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, RUSE: Camp Bonneville (WA) funding

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army vows to help fund cleanup at Bonneville

County works to terminate contractor after four years

By Erik Robinson
Columbian (WA)
June 9, 2010

Contractors may come and go, but Clark County will have the resources 
necessary to turn Camp Bonneville into a park, an Army official vowed 
Tuesday.
The statement by the U.S. Army's project manager comes as Clark County 
works to terminate the contractor hired four years ago to turn the 
former east county artillery range into a county park.
"The Army stands by ensuring that Clark County has the proper 
resources," said Bill O'Donnell, the Army's Virginia-based project 
manager for Camp Bonneville.
The cleanup stalled late last year when the main subcontractor removing 
unexploded ordnance pulled out after Army funding dried up. Cost 
overruns and funding disputes reached a stalemate between the Army and 
the county's lead contractor, Bonneville Conservation Restoration and 
Renewal Team, headed by Mike Gage, a former deputy mayor of Los Angeles 
who had previously worked with the Trust for Public Lan
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For the entire article, see
http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/jun/09/army-vows-to-help-fund-cleanup-at-bonneville/

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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
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