From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Fri, 21 Jun 2019 12:11:22 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] VOCs: "Rep. Thomas Suozzi requests Navy and Grumman negotiate to pay state to fix Bethpage [NY] plume" |
Rep. Thomas Suozzi requests Navy and Grumman negotiate to pay state to fix Bethpage plume By David M. Schwartz Long Island Newsday (NY) June 12, 2019 Rep. Thomas Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) requested Tuesday that the Navy and Northrop Grumman negotiate payments to the state for Bethpage groundwater pollution cleanup and allow the state to take the lead. “The DEC’s proposal for full containment provides a unique opportunity for one entity to oversee and coordinate efforts to fully remediate the contamination,” Suozzi wrote in letters sent Tuesday. “I believe this approach will speed up the cleanup and reduce the overall cost” for both Northrop and the Navy. In another letter to the Department of Environmental Conservation, Suozzi wrote the he had asked the Navy and Northrop Grumman to "negotiate with the DEC and to determine a 'payout' each will make to the DEC to handle the management and cleanup of the plume that has plagued this community for far too long." … For the entire article, see https://www.newsday.com/long-island/towns/tom-suozzi-navy-northrop-grumman-bethpage-plume-1.32278435 -- 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> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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