[CPEO-MEF] REGULATION: "Hanford [WA] cleanup deadline changes proposed"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hanford cleanup deadline changes proposed


By Annette Cary
Tri-City Herald (WA)
December 9, 2012 

Extending some Hanford environmental cleanup deadlines is being proposed because of newly discovered contamination and also to build experience before tackling some challenging central Hanford work.

The Department of Energy and its regulators, the state Department of Ecology and the Environmental Protection Agency, have agreed to the revised deadlines for the Tri-Party Agreement. However, the changes will not be approved until after the public has a chance to comment.

Among changes, the deadline to set a schedule for cleaning up large processing plants in central Hanford would be postponed for a decade. Now, the deadline is March.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2012/12/09/2199277/hanford-cleanup-deadline-changes.html

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Lenny Siegel
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