[CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITIES: "Tobyhanna Army Depot's past cleanup policies back on the table"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tobyhanna Army Depot's past cleanup policies back on the table

Advisory board disbanded in 2005, but officials asking if it should return

By David Pierce
Pocono Record (PA)
May 15, 2013 

Is the public satisfied with Tobyhanna Army Depot's cleanups of an old artillery range's unexploded ordnance, a former landfill and a former burning pit? Should an advisory board be reestablished to review their work?

Those are among questions being asked by the depot in a recent public notice.

A Restoration Advisory Board operated from 1995 to 2005 overseeing the cleanups, before being voluntarily disbanded.

"The RAB was discontinued because removal actions had been completed, the institutional controls were in place and the contamination levels were decreasing," states the legal notice. "The former RAB members decided that since the contamination was at a steady state, the RAB was no longer needed ..."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130515/NEWS/305150347/-1/NEWS

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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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