[CPEO-MEF] Camp Edwards (MA) lead ammo request

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Guard will ask state to lift ban on lead ammo

By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times
March 14, 2007

FALMOUTH - National Guard leaders will formally ask state environmental 
regulators today to adopt new policies that would allow soldiers to fire 
lead ammunition at Camp Edwards.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency banned lead ammunition at 
the base in 1997, when regulators feared the toxic metal could taint the 
Upper Cape's drinking water supply. A state "environmental performance 
standard" - a regulation issued by a state agency to protect the 
drinking water aquifer under Camp Edwards - also prevents firing lead 
ammo at the base.

Under a proposed new standard that the Guard will submit to state 
regulators today at a meeting of the state Environmental Management 
Commission in Falmouth, the Guard would recover and recycle as much lead 
from the ranges as possible and prevent the metal from percolating 
through the soil.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/guardwill14.htm

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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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