[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, REUSE: Burying radium-contaminated soil at McClellan Air Force Base (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Later, this article states, "But state policy does not apply to land  
in military facilities such as McClellan as long as it remains in the  
Air Force's hands, state regulators say." I don't believe that's  
true. McClellan Air Force Base is on the "Superfund" National  
Priorities List, so the state law should be an Applicable or Relevant  
and Appropriate Requirement (ARAR). U.S. EPA has the authority to  
take the proposed response to dispute, under the Federal Facilities  
Agreement. It's also possible that the Federal Facilities Compliance  
Act, passed by Congress in 1992 to subject Defense Department  
cleanups to state law, comes into play. - LS




Air Force hopes to stick Sacramento with radioactive waste dump

By Katharine Mieszkowski and Matt Smith
Center for Investigative Reporting/Fresno Bee (CA)
September 16, 2013

If U.S. Air Force official Steve Mayer is bothered by California's  
refusal to inherit the radioactive waste dump he's building outside  
Sacramento, he doesn't show it.

He's plowing ahead with plans at the old McClellan Air Force Base to  
entomb soil contaminated with radium-226, a glow-in-the-dark  
substance that can cause cancer, and pass ownership of it to the city  
of Sacramento.

The California Department of Public Health has made it clear that  
state laws don't permit the move. Even if they did, Sacramento's city  
manager says he wants nothing to do with the dump.

For the entire story, see
http://www.fresnobee.com/2013/09/16/3501280/air-force-hopes-to-stick- 
sacramento.html


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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
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