From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | Thu, 1 Dec 2011 14:05:35 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] REGULATION: "Los Alamos lab asks New Mexico for more time..." |
Los Alamos lab asks New Mexico for more time to meet mandated cleanup
milestones
ASSOCIATED PRESS November 25, 2011ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Los Alamos National Laboratory is asking the state of New Mexico for more time to meet some mandated cleanup milestones as it faces shifting priorities and uncertainty about its environmental cleanup budget. The northern New Mexico lab would be able to speed up the shipment of radioactive waste from lab property to a permanent disposal site if allowed to shift resources to higher priority work, George Rael, head of environmental management for the federal government's Los Alamos Site Office told the Albuquerque Journal. The changes in lab cleanup priorities come amid discussion among the state, the lab and members of the public regarding the lab's 2005 agreement on environmental cleanup milestones. ... For the entire article, seehttp://www.therepublic.com/view/story/ 69e47155064241388a422af99f935149/NM--Los-Alamos-Cleanup/ -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center 278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545 Fax: 650-961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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