[CPEO-MEF] LEAD, NATIONAL GUARD: $30 million in Senate 2018 defense bill.

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

$30M to clean National Guard toxic armories in Senate plan

By Rob Davis
Oregonian/OregonLive
November 29, 2017

Toxic armories nationwide would receive a $30 million boost for removing lead contamination under the U.S. Senate's 2018 defense spending bill.

The spending increase, part of a $581 billion Pentagon authorization bill, would aid the National Guard's effort to remove dangerous lead dust in armories across the country, a problem revealed in a 2016 investigation by The Oregonian/OregonLive.

The Senate plan marks the first time that Congress has proposed spending federal money to remove lead contamination in armories, civic landmarks in hundreds of towns and cities across America.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2017/11/money_for_toxic_armories.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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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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