[CPEO-BIF] Sinclair site doesn't need cleanup grant, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

City of Cedar Rapids says Sinclair site does not have ‘sufficient  
contaminants’ to warrant EPA cleanup grant

By Rick Smith
SourceMedia Group News/Eastern Iowa Government
October 24, 2011

CEDAR RAPIDS - There is insufficient soil contamination at the city- 
owned, former Sinclair meatpacking plant site to warrant a need for a  
cleanup grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, city  
officials said Monday.

The city made the announcement in response to a letter last week to  
the city from the EPA notifying the city that the federal agency was  
withdrawing an offer made in March 2008 to fund cleanup at the  
Sinclair site.

The offer in 2008 came with a requirement that the city file a former  
application for federal assistance, an application that first  
required the city to develop a work plan to identify contamination on  
the site and detail how it was to be cleaned up.

...

For the entire article, see
http://easterniowagovernment.com/2011/10/24/city-of-cedar-rapids-says- 
sinclair-site-does-not-have-sufficient-contaminants-to-warrant-epa- 
cleanup-grant/

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