[CPEO-MEF] REGULATON: Ft. Detrick (MD) cleanup agreement

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Detrick signs cleanup agreement with EPA


By Megan Eckstein
Frederick News-Post (MD)
December 18, 2010

Fort Detrick signed an agreement Friday with the Department of Defense 
and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency outlining how to go about 
cleaning up Area B's groundwater contamination.
U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin pushed for the Federal Facilities Agreement to be 
signed by Dec. 1, saying it was long overdue. Though the departments 
couldn't quite meet his deadline due to back-and-forth negotiations on 
some key points, Cardin was happy to see the agreement signed, said his 
spokeswoman, Sue Walitsky.

The Federal Facilities Agreement is required for any federal land placed 
on the EPA's National Priorities List, a list of the country's most 
contaminated land in quick need of remediation -- and a list that Fort 
Detrick's Area B joined in 2008. The agreement is a legally enforceable 
document that sets out a timeline for remediation and identifies roles 
and responsibilities for each department involved.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=113882

For the EPA press release, go to
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/ae904d3dbc29b33b852577fc00648a7c?OpenDocument


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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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