[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, REGULATION: Proposed Allied Chemical Superfund site, Macon, GA

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Comments protest Allied Superfund proposal

By S. HEATHER DUNCAN
Macon Telegraph (GA)
October 8, 2012

The few public comments received by the federal government about a  
possible new Superfund site in Macon argue against putting the Allied  
Industrial Park on the list of the nation’s most contaminated lands.

...

As proposed, the Superfund listing would include 433 acres where the  
Department of Defense manufactured ordnance, explosives and  
detonators from 1941 to 1965, when it was sold to Maxson Electronics  
Corp., which continued to manufacture ordnance there. Allied Chemical  
Co. bought it and began making seat belts there in 1973. The land was  
subsequently turned into an industrial park by the Macon-Bibb County  
Industrial Authority.

In its justification for including the Allied site on the Superfund  
list, the EPA stated that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is  
responsible for "Formerly Used Defense Sites," has withdrawn plans to  
clean up the site because it thinks other parties may be responsible.  
Georgia environmental officials asked the EPA to step in.
...

For the entire article, see
http://www.macon.com/2012/10/08/2205077/comments-protest-allied- 
superfund.html

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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
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