[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: "DEC reviewing 22 Nassau [County, NY] sites for radioactive materials"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEC reviewing 22 Nassau sites for radioactive materials

The Island Now (NY)
July 27, 2017

The state Department of Environmental Conservation is examining whether radioactive materials were used at 22 sites in Nassau County, officials said this week.

The sites are among 43 across Long Island where the department is working to determine whether radioactive materials were released into the environment, a DEC spokesman said.

The DEC is targeting sites on the state or federal Superfund lists that include laboratories and facilities associated with military, electronics and metals manufacturing, industries in which radioactive materials were commonly used, the spokesman, Kevin Frazier, said.


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For the entire article, see
http://theislandnow.com/great_neck-101/dec-reviewing-22-nassau-sites-radioactive-materials/

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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
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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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