[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, VOCs: "Long road ahead for missile sites cleanup, " Wyoming

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Long road ahead for missile sites cleanup

By Joel Funk
Wyoming Tribune Eagle
April 3, 2017

CHEYENNE – There is still a long, expensive road ahead in cleaning up Cold War-era missile sites in Wyoming.

Those with the most significant environmental effects, the seven former Atlas Missile sites, are located in southeast Wyoming, all within 75 miles of Cheyenne. While the federal government has already spent more than $45 million on cleanup actions associated with the old nuclear missile launch sites in Wyoming, Kevin Frederick, water administrator for the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, told a U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday that the work is far from over.

The estimated cost of that work could be as high as $285 million from the Army Corps of Engineers, he said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/long-road-ahead-for-missile-sites-cleanup/article_13355dd2-1831-11e7-9b43-17ba4bafe17d.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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