[CPEO-MEF] (repost) Flawed ITS Data Relied Upon by GSA at Sunflower

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The General Services Administration knowingly relied on flawed ITS Data
in reaching its conclusion that transfering Sunflower Army Ammunition
Plant in Kansas to Oz Entertainment Company would not cause any
significant impacts to the quality of the human environment under the
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), despite NEPA's requirement
that agencies provide "accurate" and "high quality" environmental
information to the decisionmaker and the public "before decisions are
made and actions are taken."  40 C.F.R. =A7=A7 1500.1(b), 1502.24.

How many other agency decisions are based on flawed data?  See articles
below:

          Environmental-Safety Tests Are 'Falsified'

          By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
              DALLAS, Sept. 21 =AF The federal
               authorities said today that thousands of
          environmental safety tests conducted at
          Superfund locations, landfills and other
          hazardous waste sites from 1994 to 1997 will
          have to be repeated because the company that
          performed the tests falsified the results.

continued at ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/22/national/22ENVI.html

See also:=20

Lawrence Journal World

The Front Page

  Federal indictments in Texas touch Oz
  project in Kansas=20

  J-W Staff Reports=20
  FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2000=20
  Thirteen former employees of the company that conducted environmental
tests on the site of a  proposed Oz theme park were accused Thursday of
altering lab results from tests nationwide.

http://www.ljworld.com/section/frontpage/story/27416

ajb

Andrew J. Bailey
The Session Law Firm
2600 Grand Blvd., Suite 440
Kansas City, MO 64108
Tel: (816) 842-4949
Fax: (816) 842-1815
abailey@session.com



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