[CPEO-MEF] REGULATION: Radford Ammo Plant (VA) seeks more time

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Radford Army Ammunition Plant seeks more cleanup time from EPA
The Radford facility has asked the EPA to renew a permit allowing  
cleanup efforts to go on.
By Laurence Hammack and Jeff Sturgeon
Roanoke Times (VA)

March 17, 2011

The Radford Army Ammunition Plant is asking federal regulators for  
more time to clean up all the hazardous waste that was dumped years  
ago on the grounds of the military munitions complex.

If the Environmental Protection Agency renews a permit for the  
cleanup, it would allow the plant to continue removing the debris of  
making explosives, some of which has remained in its earth and  
groundwater since World War II.

Area residents will have a chance to learn more about the cleanup at  
a meeting scheduled for tonight at the New River Valley  
Competitiveness Center in Fairlawn.

The operative law is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act,  
under which regulators strive to protect life and the environment  
from hazardous waste. Arsenal officials are operating on an expired  
Corrective Action Permit now. The EPA wants the arsenal to finish the  
job and expects to reissue the permit for another 10 years.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/280239


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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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