[CPEO-MEF] URANIUM, MUNITIONS: "EPA weighs in on Army plan to leave toxic mess" at Jefferson Proving Ground, IN

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[It seems to me that there must be some alternatives between cleaning up everything or cleaning up nothing.  - LS]

EPA weighs in on Army plan to leave toxic mess

by Charlie White
Louisville Courier-Journal
March 15, 2015

Federal environmental officials want the U.S. Army to analyze the costs and benefits of its plan to end its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license and halt monitoring at the old Jefferson Proving Ground in Southern Indiana.

The former firing range near Madison, Ind., is where the Army conducted ammunition tests from 1941 to 1995, leaving behind more than 160,000 pounds of depleted-uranium shell fragments plus millions of unexploded conventional shells, live detonators, primers or fuses.

Ken Westlake, a regional coordinator for the Environmental Protection Agency, wrote in a letter that the agency understands that it may not be feasible to clean up remaining unexploded ordnance due to safety and cost issues.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2015/03/13/epa-weighs-army-plan-leave-toxic-mess/70287600/

For more information, see
http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1505/ML15051A153.pdf

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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