[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS, FORMER SITES: "Norton Presses U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to Expedite Spring Valley [DC] Chemical Cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Press Release
Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton
April 22, 2015

Norton Presses U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to Expedite Spring Valley  
Chemical Cleanup

WASHINGTON, D.C.—After almost 25 years of work, Congresswoman Eleanor  
Holmes Norton (D-DC) is trying to expedite federal efforts to  
excavate and restore the Spring Valley Formerly Used Defense Site,  
located in Spring Valley, the residential neighborhood near American  
University.  At a Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee  
hearing, Norton, a senior member of the subcommittee, asked  
Lieutenant General Thomas Bostick, Chief of Engineers, United States  
Army Corps of Engineers, if there was any way to speed the project’s  
timeline.  Norton requested a response from the Corps within 30 days.



The Congresswoman has successfully ensured that funding for the site  
cleanup has flowed without interruption, even during the recession  
and sequester.  Although the excavation for the Glenbrook Road site,  
one of the most extensive, is scheduled to be completed in 2017,  
there may be further cleanup affecting up to 100 homes in the  
neighborhood even then.


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For the entire article, see
http://norton.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/norton-presses-us- 
army-corps-of-engineers-to-expedite-spring-valley

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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
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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