2013 CPEO Military List Archive

From: "Ormont, Wendy" <wendy_ormont@nps.gov>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:27:16 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: Re: [CPEO-MEF] Military Digest, Vol 102, Issue 6
 
The article on the Chanute AFB BRAC closure describes how long it has taken for the cleanup and upcoming land transfers, and celebrates the upcomoing "first" transfers. I would like readers to note that the National Park Service's Federal Lands to Parks program transferred approximately 22 acres in 1999 and another 37 acres in 2011 of the former Chanute AFB to the Village of Rantoul for public parks and recreation. ÂThere are many folks espousing inaccurately how public benefit conveyances impede land transfers and delay the process. ÂLet this case be remembered, among the many others I could cite, where environmental condition and cleanup are the primary delays to land transfers, not public benefit transfers.

Wendy Ormont
Program Leader,
Federal Lands to Parks Program
National Park Service
202-354-6915
fax 202-371-5179

1201 I Street NW, 9th Floor
Washington, DC Â20005


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Today's Topics:

 Â1. REUSE: Chanute Air Force Base (IL) 53-acre transfer (Lenny Siegel)
 Â2. PERCHLORATE, CLEANUP: "Blame the Pentagon" (Lenny Siegel)
 Â3. PERCHLORATE, WETLANDS: Warner Park lagoon, Madison,    Wisconsin
   (Lenny Siegel)


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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:37:06 -0600
From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
To: Military Environmental Forum <military@lists.cpeo.org>
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Chanute Air Force Base (IL) 53-acre
    transfer
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Transfer of base property to village nears final phases


By DAVE HINTON
Rantoul Press editor
February 19, 2013

If it seems like it's taken a long time for the cleanup and transfer of property of the former Chanute Air Force Base to the village of Rantoul, it's only because it has.

The base, which was one of the oldest in the United States Air Force, closed in 1993. Twenty years later, the cleanup by the Air Force and transfer continues.

The transfer of a significant amount of additional property - including land and buildings - will take place this year and could be wrapped up in 2014.

The first transfer, of 53 acres and six buildings, should be completed this spring.

It involves airport acreage used for the Rantoul National Aviation Center and airport support.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.rantoulpress.com/news/politics-and-government/2013-02-19/transfer-base-property-village-nears-final-phases.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
LSiegel@cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org






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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:52:52 -0600
From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
To: Military Environmental Forum <military@lists.cpeo.org>
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE, CLEANUP: "Blame the Pentagon"
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[I can list a number of sites where the Defense Department is reluctant to conduct what I consider health-protective cleanups, but having followed these issue for more that 23 years, I don't agree with some of the assertions in this article. I don't know by what measure the Defense Department produces more hazardous waste than major chemical companies. The military is required to comply with major environmental laws, including those pertaining to cleanup. And the scope of significant perchlorate contamination at Defense facilities, as opposed to contractor facilities, turned out to be less that originally feared. The Department initially fought stringent perchlorate regulation, but more recently its criticism has been muted. - LS]

Blame the Pentagon
The U.S.?s Grossly Corrupt Health Protection System

by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR and JOSHUA FRANK
Counterpunch
Weekend Edition February 15-17, 2013

The nation?s biggest polluter isn?t a corporation. It?s the Pentagon. Every year the Department of Defense churns out more than 750,000 tons of hazardous waste - more than the top three chemical companies combined.

Yet the military remains largely exempt from compliance with most federal and state environmental laws, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Pentagon?s partner in crime, is working hard to keep it that way.

For the past five decades the federal government, defense contractors and the chemical industry have joined forces to block public health protections against perchlorate, a component of rocket fuel that has been shown to effect children?s growth and mental progress by disrupting the function of the thyroid gland which regulates brain development.

Perchlorate has been leaking from literally hundreds of defense plants and military installations across the country. The EPA has reported that perchlorate is present in drinking and groundwater supplies in 35 states. Center for Disease Control and independent studies have also overwhelmingly shown that perchlorate is existent in our food supplies, cow?s milk, and human breast milk. As a result virtually every American has some level of perchlorate in their body.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/02/15/the-u-s-has-a-grossly-corrupted-health-protection-system/

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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
LSiegel@cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org






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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:04:10 -0600
From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
To: Military Environmental Forum <military@lists.cpeo.org>
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE, WETLANDS: Warner Park lagoon,
    Madison,    ÂWisconsin
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Eco group says study shows Rhythm & Booms hurts Warner Park wetlands

PAT SCHNEIDER
Capital Times (WI)
February 20, 2013

Newly released reports show that the Rhythm & Booms fireworks display at the Warner Park lagoon is not ?benign fun? and it?s time to stop it, says a co-founder of a grass-roots group dedicated Âto preserving the city park?s flora and fauna.

'The fireworks of Rhythm & Booms leave significant and persistent chemical contamination, along with significant solid waste, in Warner Park's wetland. While the impacts on the food chain, fish, birds and public health are unknown, no one can now argue that the fireworks are benign fun,' Jim Carrier of Wild Warner wrote Wednesday on an email network serving north-side residents.

"The city of Madison, in partnership with the Madison Fireworks Fund, has significantly polluted Warner Park's wetland for 20 years. It's time to stop," Carrier said.


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For the entire article, see
http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/writers/pat_schneider/eco-group-says-study-shows-rhythm-booms-hurts-warner-park/article_d612fda4-7b8d-11e2-b90e-0019bb2963f4.html

You may need to copty and paste the link.

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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
LSiegel@cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org






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