[CPEO-BIF] "L.A. Panel Decides on Toxic School"

[Tony Chenhansa <cpeo@cpeo.org>]

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Thursday October 21 7:41 PM ET 
L.A. Panel Decides on Toxic School
By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press Writer 
(snippets)

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Los Angeles school system has been advised to finish
building a half-completed, multimillion-dollar high school on a toxic site
and deal with potential dangers later.

An expert panel set up specifically to decide the fate of the Belmont
Learning Center voted 4-3 Wednesday in favor of completing the project at
the downtown site - a former oil field that releases potentially dangerous
gases.

The commission said it would attach conditions on dealing with the dangers
of the site later.

The district already has spent $144 million on Belmont, the nation's most
expensive high school. The commission concluded that finishing Belmont and
adding technology to ease the gas problem would boost the cost about $50
million more than the original estimate of $200 million.

A commission report concluded that going to a replacement site would send
the total cost to $339 million.

...Construction was halted after it was discovered that the 35-acre Belmont
site was polluted with explosive methane and potentially deadly hydrogen
sulfide...

...In recommending the school be finished, the commission said it would
also suggest that the school board ask the state attorney general whether
proceeding would violate state law against building on toxic sites. 

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