[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: Guam

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DoD cleans-up used defense sites

by Krystal Paco
KUAM News (GU)
January 16, 2012

Guam - The FUDS program was first established by Congress in the  
mid-1980s to clean up properties formerly owned, leased, possessed or  
used by the military services. There are over 30 formerly used  
defense sites on island, and one by one the U.S. Army Corps of  
Engineers is giving them some much-needed TLC.

Senior program and project manager Helene Takemoto oversees FUDS  
cleanups all over the CNMI, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Guam.  
Takemoto says the cleanups are intended to protect human health and  
the environment, noting, "What we're trying to do is restore the  
environment back to what it was before the military used the site."



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For the entire article, see
http://www.kuam.com/story/16526037/dod-cleans-up-used-defense-sites

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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