[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, REUSE: "EPA blasts Navy for plan to retest soil at former" Hunters Point Shipyard, San Francisco, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA blasts Navy for plan to retest soil at former SF shipyard

by Cynthia Dizikes and J.K. Dinner 
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
August 17, 2018 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has excoriated the Navy’s plan to retest part of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard for radioactivity as inadequate and unscientific, threatening to pursue a rare dispute process if changes aren’t made, according to letters obtained by The Chronicle.

“Without the requested changes, the approach will not provide the necessary confidence level to establish when Parcel G would be suitable for redevelopment,” Angeles Herrera, assistant director of the EPA’s Superfund Division, wrote to the Navy on Tuesday, referencing another letter the EPA sent to the Navy in March that raised many of the same concerns.

The letters are significant because for the first time they articulate the tension between the EPA and the Navy over the extent of the problems associated with the shipyard cleanup and how to go about making the site safe.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/EPA-blasts-Navy-for-plan-to-retest-soil-at-former-13164851.php

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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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