[CPEO-MEF] NATIVE PEOPLE, REUSE, NASA: "Chumash looking to acquire portion of Santa Susana Field Lab" (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chumash looking to acquire portion of Santa Susana Field Lab

By Stephanie Snyder
Ventura County Star (CA)
October 15, 2012


To try to protect Native American historic sites, the Santa Ynez Band  
of Chumash Indians is seeking to take over NASA-owned land at the  
Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a contaminated rocket engine and  
nuclear test site near Simi Valley.

Boeing Co. owns the majority of the 2,850-acre former testing  
facility - which had a partial nuclear meltdown in 1959 - but the 452  
acres administered by NASA have features that interest the Chumash  
tribe: a cave adorned with pictographs and evidence of the tribe's  
dwellings.

While the Native American sites have not been damaged, the federally  
recognized tribe is worried about their preservation as the  
California Department of Toxic Substance Control continues to  
investigate the extent of the cleanup that it will require NASA to do.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2012/oct/15/chumash-looking-to-acquire- 
portion-of-santa-lab/

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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>
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