[CPEO-BIF] Florida plume notification legislation

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Bill Calls For Notice Of Contamination Like Raytheon's

By MARK  DOUGLAS
Brandon News and Tribune (FL)
January 15, 2009


ST. PETERSBURG - State Sen. Charlie Justice said no one should face the 
kind of surprise that hit neighbors of the Raytheon defense plant last 
year when they learned a toxic plume of industrial waste had been 
spreading beneath them for years.

Justice has filed a bill that would require the Florida Department of 
Environmental Protection to notify people about this kind of 
contamination within 60 days after the state learns of it. Notice would 
go to property owners within a mile of contaminated land.

In Raytheon's case, DEP waited 17 years before spreading the word, and 
only then after News Channel 8 reported them.

State records show both DEP and Raytheon knew as long ago as 1999 that 
the toxic plume was migrating into the neighborhood. The company is in 
the final stages of assessing the problem but has made little progress 
toward cleanup.



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For the entire article, see
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/jan/15/law-would-require-notice-contamination-raytheons/news-politics/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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