[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: 'EPA orders Andersen [AFB, Guam] to address 'deficiencies' in open burn, detonation application"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA orders Andersen to address 'deficiencies' in open burn, detonation application

By Joe Taitano II 
Pacific Daily News (GU)
August 21, 2024

Andersen Air Force Base has until Sept. 20 to address a number of “deficiencies” in its application for a permit to keep open detonating and burning hazardous materials alongside Tarague Beach, according to an Aug. 6 letter from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

A revised permit application from Andersen must include measures to prevent contamination of the ocean, the aquifer, and the atmosphere, among other things, according to the letter sent to the head of Andersen’s 36th Civil Engineer Squadron.

Both the administrator for U.S. EPA in the region, Martha Guzman Aceves, and Guam Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michelle Lastimoza signed off on the letter.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.guampdn.com/news/epa-orders-andersen-to-address-deficiencies-in-open-burn-detonation-application/article_28592abc-5f97-11ef-8423-0bb898a8eb2b.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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