[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES: Vermont Firing Ranges

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army will check former firing ranges

NEAL P. GOSWAMI
Bennington Banner (VT)
July 15, 2011

BENNINGTON -- A former World War II-era Army firing range in  
Bennington is among 15 former ranges and live-fire munitions sites  
around the state that the Army will look over this fall to ensure no  
dangerous ordinance remains.

The now-closed Vermont Army National Guard sites are being inspected  
and evaluated as part of the Military Munitions Response Program,  
according to officials. Similar actions are taking place all over the  
country under the same program run by the National Guard Bureau.

Vermont National Guard Facilities Manager John Patry said the program  
is "a review by the feds that is looking at all of the sites that  
they can document were ever used as firing ranges."
He said the program is intended to ensure that all sites are clean  
and safe. "They're looking for old ones that were closed, and they're  
looking to see that they were closed properly," Patry said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/ci_18487939

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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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