new Army perchlorate guidance

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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On June 11, 2004, Major General Larry Lust, Assistant Chief of Staff for
Installation Management, signed a memo distributing a new "Department of
Army Guidance for Assessing Potential Perchlorate Contamination." In
essence, the Army guidance provides a practical framework for
implementing the September, 29 2003 Defense Department "Interim Policy
on Perchlorate Sampling."

One element of the Army guidance seems to promise a step forward toward
the development of a comprehensive perchlorate response strategy. Item
#15 states:

"Assessment and Prioritization Strategy: The Army is developing a
perchlorate assessment strategy. This strategy will provide a
methodology for ranking relatively high risk and relatively low risk
defense sites. Installations will be prioritized based on their relative
risk. Additionally, the perchlorate assessment strategy will describe a
phased approach for assessing for perchlorate contamination. This
strategy will not apply to FUDS [Formerly Used Defense Sites]. The FUDS
program will implement a FUDS specific strategy that will employ similar
methodologies along with elements that are unique to FUDS."

LS
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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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