[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, PERCHLORATE: Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant (TX)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Caddo transfer memo in limbo

By Glenn Evans
Longview News-Journal (TX)
January 9, 2013

KARNACK - The memo is in the mail, nine months after the Army and the  
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced they'd agreed on terms  
turning over the shuttered bomb factory on Caddo Lake to the wildlife  
service.

A copy of the memo, which will govern the transfer of the final 1,400  
acres to the wildlife service for a nature refuge, might or might not  
have made it to the service’s regional headquarters in Albuquerque,  
N.M., long ago. No one at the headquarters can find it, the outgoing  
refuge manager said this past week.

On Tuesday, during a meeting of the residents' committee overseeing  
cleanup of the contaminated Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant site,  
committee co-chairman Paul Fortune said local Army representatives  
had re-sent the memo to New Mexico.

The memo is important because it will transfer the final 16 tracts to  
the federal agency while the Army continues cleaning the Superfund  
Act site. Fortune and others on the local committee say it also will  
contain assurance to Fish and Wildlife that the long-term cleanup  
will occur.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.news-journal.com/news/local/caddo-transfer-memo-in-limbo/ 
article_137b310c-c3fb-558e-ba6d-5b62b3ea6d1c.html

You may need to copy and paste the link.

--

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

_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org