[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Fort Ord (CA) Reuse Authority records

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

More FORA records, though hard to fathom

By VIRGINIA HENNESSEY
Monterey County Herald (CA)
June 9, 2012

In December 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sent a  
report to Stan Cook, project manager for the munitions cleanup of  
3,400 acres of Fort Ord.

It begins like this:

The Fort Ord Reuse Authority (FORA) Environmental Services  
Cooperative Agreement (ESCA) Residential Quality Assurance Process  
Pilot Study Technical Information Paper, California State University  
Monterey Bay (CSUMB) Off-Campus Munitions Response Area (MRA), Former  
Fort Ord, Monterey County, California, dated December 27, 2011  
(hereinafter referred to as the RQAPPS TIP CSUMB OC MRA) ...

Yes, that's a 19-character acronym.

The 2011 report goes on to say that the RQAPPS TIP CSUMB OC MRA is  
deficient in a few areas and needs more work.

Keep Fort Ord Wild had to sue FORA to get records like that in the  
hopes of understanding how the agency spent a $97.7 million federal  
grant for munitions cleanup on the former Army base. Winning release  
of the records might have been the easiest part of that proposition.

While they purportedly report that the remediation project is about  
70 percent complete, the records are incomprehensible to the average  
person.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.montereyherald.com/news/ci_20822650/more-fora-records- 
available-but-good-luck-understanding


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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
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