[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, REUSE: San Francisco "Supervisors call for hearing on reports of Treasure Island radiation threat"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Supervisors call for hearing on reports of Treasure Island  
radiation threat

By Joshua Sabatini
San Francisco Examiner
September 5, 2012

Newly reported cases of potential radiation on Treasure Island have  
raised alarm and prompted the Board of Supervisors on Wednesday to  
call for a hearing next week to address the reports.

The City is preparing to take over ownership of the island from the  
U.S. Navy for a purchase price of $100 million to make way for  
8,000 homes, a hotel and an upgraded marina. The deal requires the  
Navy to clean up the island's contamination, work that must be  
approved by state regulatory health agencies.

But recent reports in both the Bay Citizen and the East Bay Express  
have suggested there is more radiological contamination on the  
island than once thought, revealing tension between the state  
agencies and the Navy over cleanup.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2012/09/supervisors-call-hearing- 
reports-treasure-island-radiation-threat

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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