[CPEO-MEF] REGULATION: "Federal judge slaps down state Santa Susana Field Lab (CA) cleanup law"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Federal judge slaps down state Santa Susana Field Lab cleanup law

By Teresa Rochester
Ventura County Star (CA)
April 27, 2011

A federal judge found a landmark state law setting strict cleanup  
standards at a polluted former rocket engine and nuclear test site  
south of Simi Valley unconstitutional this week.

Judge John F. Walter ruled the law, SB 990, unjustifiably singles out  
one site, the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, for "uniquely onerous  
treatment" with requirements not related to a legitimate state  
interest, violating equal protection and due process clauses of the  
14th Amendment.

Walter also found the state law, passed in 2007, violated the clause  
that essentially says federal law trumps state law.

The arguments against the 3-year-old state law were laid out in a  
motion by Boeing Co., primary owner of the field lab site.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2011/apr/27/federal-judge-slaps-down-state- 
santa-susana-lab/


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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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