[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Air Force challenges EPA over PFAS cleanup plan order in Tucson, " AZ

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air Force challenges EPA over PFAS cleanup plan order in Tucson

by Tony Davis
Arizona Daily Star 
July 21, 2024


The U.S. Air Force is contesting an Environmental Protection Agency order to produce a plan to clean up massive contamination by various PFAS compounds in groundwater underneath two Air Force-owned facilities near Tucson International Airport.

The Air Force and EPA appear headed for a major, potentially prolonged legal struggle over EPA’s authority to require a cleanup plan and whether it’s feasible for the Air Force to produce that plan in EPA’s allotted time period, based on records the agencies released to the Arizona Daily Star on Friday.

EPA issued its 23-page order in late May, citing the federal Safe Drinking Water Act as justification, plus a seven-page statement in July affirming and finalizing the order. The Air Force has sent two responses totaling nearly 40 pages this summer challenging the order.


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For the entire article, see
https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/air-force-challenges-epa-over-pfas-cleanup-plan-order-in-tucson/article_561d7216-340c-11ef-9c33-bbd64b350794.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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