[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Eglin Air Force Base (FL) recycles practice bombs

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Restoration officials recycle bombs, save money



by Mike Spaits
96th Air Base Wing Environmental Public Affairs
Air Force News Service
January 13, 1011

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- Environmental restoration officials here 
are shredding their way through 50,000 practice bombs.

So far, they have recycled more than one million pounds of metal from 
the BDU 33 and Mark 106 bombs.

The effort is part of the Air Force's military munitions response program.

The mission of the MMRP is to take action to ensure munitions response 
areas and munitions response sites located off of active test ranges are 
safe for reuse, and to protect human health and the environment.

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For the entire release, see
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123238287

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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