[CPEO-BIF] Richmond (CA) oversight shifted to Toxics Agency

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Outcry Spurs Cleanup Shift to Toxics Agency: 

By RICHARD BRENNEMAN
Berkeley Daily Planet (CA)
November 9, 2004


Bowing to public and legislative pressure, state officials Monday agreed
to a change in jurisdiction over the toxic cleanup of Campus Bay, the
South Richmond site where developers hope to build a condo project atop
a hazardous waste dump.

"It's my understanding that the water board and the state Department of
Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) are working on a transfer plan to have
DTSC become the lead agency," said East Bay Assemblymember Loni Hancock
Monday. 

The move follows a heated joint legislative hearing convened Saturday in
Richmond by Hancock and state Assemblymember Cindy Montanez, a Southern
California lawmaker who chairs the Assembly's Rules Committee and as
well as the Select Committee on Environmental Justice.

Speaker after speaker at Saturday's meeting voiced outrage at the water
board's handling of the site and demanded that site jurisdiction be
removed from the San Francisco Regional Water Control Board over to the DTSC.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=11-09-04&storyID=20042

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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