2011 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:32:30 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] BIC TCE controversy, Milford, Connecticut
 
State says BIC failed to disclose all it knew about toxic chemicals at site

Frank Juliano
Connecticut Post
September 28, 2011

MILFORD -- State environmental officials have reversed themselves and now say that BIC Corp. is not in compliance with a consent order to locate and clean up a toxic chemical at its former shaving and pen factory here.

BIC, which is now headquartered in Shelton, was determined in March to have met the terms of its agreement with the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. A month later, however, state officials became aware of employee interviews done in 2003 by a consultant hired by BIC that provide much more detail on the location and amount of the chemical on its property.

"Since BIC has taken the position that there is no evidence of TCE releases on its property, the discovery of this information places the veracity and reliability of all of the reports into question,'' wrote John Looney, an assistant state attorney general, in a DEEP document provided to the Connecticut Post on Wednesday.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/State-says-BIC-failed-to-disclose- all-it-knew-2193875.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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