[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, VOCs: Salina "Airport Authority files claim against Hawker Beechcraft for Schilling [KS] cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Airport authority files federal claim against Hawker Beechcraft for Schilling cleanup

By TIM UNRUH 
Salina Journal (KS)
June 17, 2015	

Salina Airport Authority board members on Wednesday approved settling a $2 million claim filed in bankruptcy court against a former tenant, Hawker Beechcraft.

The claim is for any part the company might have had in the contamination of the former Schilling Air Force Base.

Hawker has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and is willing to stipulate to that amount, said Greg Bengtson, a Salina attorney and legal counsel to the airport authority.

Bengtson warned that the amount that the Salina Public Entities receive will be “pennies on the dollar” in relation to the actual claim.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.salina.com/news/airport-authority-files-federal-claim-against-hawker-beechcraft-for-schilling/article_53c98212-403c-590b-98a1-7008496dea33.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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