[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, DISPOSAL: Committee evaluates technologies for Camp Minden (LA) propellant

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Six technologies top committee's M6 disposal list

by Vickie Welborn
Shreveport Times
March 11, 2015


MINDEN – They left the meeting with open tray burning of M6 propellant still on the table. But it was No. 20 on a list of 20.

And the citizens who make up a large part of the Minden Dialogue Committee ended their final working session more confident than ever their list of six recommended technologies will be preferred over an open burn — even though the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency stopped just short of taking it out of consideration.

EPA Region 6 Director Ron Curry affirmed State Rep. Gene Reynolds' statement the open burn cannot be totally eliminated because it would complicate the transition from the proposals already submitted on that disposals process. It's also being considered in a contingency plan should another explosive emergency occur at Camp Minden.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2015/03/11/six-technologies-top-committees-disposal-list/70171908/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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