[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: Concord Naval Weapons Station (CA) train cars

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Concord Naval Weapons Station: Navy works on cleaning up base, scrapping 
boxcars

By Paul Thissen
Contra Costa Times (CA)
February 18, 2011

CONCORD -- In the coming months, the U.S. Navy will disassemble for 
scrap the scores of train cars rusting away on the former Concord Naval 
Weapons Station as part of its base cleanup efforts, which could stretch 
into 2020.

The progress of the environmental work will affect how quickly the base 
can be turned over to new owners, because the Navy is required to clean 
up the property before it can get rid of it -- or else use a special 
process to transfer that responsibility to whoever takes over the land.

That process is not simple. The city, the Navy, and other state and 
federal regulatory agencies all have roles in the process, and they 
don't always agree how it should unfold. And parts of the site are 
environmentally sensitive; the Navy has already found and relocated 
three protected tiger salamanders in the course of its environmental 
studies.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_17425400

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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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