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From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:31:22 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] RADIATION: Kettleman Hills (CA) won't accept Santa Susana Field Laboratory (CA) wastes
 
San Joaquin Valley landfill won't accept Field Lab waste

By Teresa Rochester
Ventura County Star (CA)
January 13, 2010

A landfill in the San Joaquin Valley will not accept waste from the Santa Susana Field Laboratory following an outcry over Boeing Co. and NASA's application to send radioactively contaminated dirt there.

Waste Management, the company that owns the Kettleman Hills landfill, notified California's Secretary for Environmental Protection on Tuesday of the company's decision.

"Waste Management's Kettleman Hills Facility has voluntarily decided not to accept solid or hazardous wastes from any portion of the Santa Susana Field Lab because of the uncertainty and community concerns about the levels of radioactive constituents in these materials," Senior District Manager Robert G. Henry wrote in a letter Tuesday to the state EPA's Linda Adams.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/jan/13/san-joaquin-valley-landfill-wont-accept-field/

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Lenny Siegel
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