[CPEO-MEF] REGULATION: Radford Army Ammunition Plant (VA)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA cleanup - what's the public's right to know?

by Orlando Salinas,
WDBJ TV-7 News (VA)
May 12, 2014

MONTGOMERY CO., Va. - Experts say cleaning up a federal facility,  
like the Radford Army Ammunition Plant, so it meets Environmental  
Protection Agency standards, usually falls under CERCLA.

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability  
Act, better known as Superfund. That Superfund designation forces  
polluters -- by law -- to notify communities about nearly every step  
of the cleanup along the way.

This story is about 32 lines on a document created by the  
Environmental Protection Agency. Three words stood out more than all  
the rest: "Unique Corrective Action."

The EPA document headline reads; "Region 3 Develops a Unique  
Corrective Action Permit for the Radford Army Ammunition Plant."

The EPA provided Luis Pizarro from the agency's Land and Chemicals  
Division. Pizarro said he's handled RCRA issues at the Radford Army  
plant since 2004. He tried to explain the logic behind the "unique  
corrective action permit" and what appeared at best, to be a  
confusing document.

..,

For the entire article, see
http://www.wdbj7.com/news/local/epa-cleanup-whats-the-publics-right- 
to-know/25944450

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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