[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: Benicia (CA) and its former Arsenal

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Benicia tries to dodge Arsenal bill

By Tony Burchyns
Vallejo Times-Herald (CA)
November 21, 2010

BENICIA -- Details are emerging about a plan to clean up the city's 
former military base without making private property owners or the city 
pay the bill.

In a proposal headed to the City Council on Tuesday, today's property 
owners -- including the city -- would not bear the financial burden of 
cleaning up any significant U.S. Army contamination discovered at the 
nearly 3,000-acre Benicia Arsenal.

Further, all parties would be held to the same, known cleanup levels.

The city has been under increasing pressure from state regulators to 
clean up the Arsenal, a former weapons depot and small arms manufacturer 
that closed in 1964. Much of the base is now owned by private interests.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_16672217

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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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