[CPEO-MEF] Former military housing area - Guam

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxins taint Tiyan soil
Feds: Land returned for industrial use

By Mark-Alexander Pieper 
Pacific Daily News (GU)
February 12, 2006

Tiyan cliff-side landowners who live in former military housing units
may have more to worry about than losing their property.

A Feb. 3 letter from Federal Highway Administration Honolulu Division
Administrator Abraham Wong raises concerns about potential health
hazards in the area.

The letter chastised the local government for returning former military
land -- that was returned on the condition that it be used to build a
highway -- to previous landowners. In the letter, Wong said a revocation
of the return of military lands and the withholding of federal funds is possible.

But he also raised concerns about some previous landowners using the old
military housing units as residential space.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060212/NEWS01/602120302/1002

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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>
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