2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 14 Oct 2007 07:44:47 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Rocketdyne (CA) settlement
 
PAY DIRT
Gov. Schwarzenegger signs Kuehl bill to clean up Rocketdyne to Superfund standards; Boeing agrees to pay for remediation and donate lab to State for parkland

By Michael Collins
EnviroReporter
October 13, 2007

A decades-long battle over Boeing's massive Santa Susana Field Laboratory came to a historic climax on Friday as California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation that would require that the lab be cleaned up to the highest Environmental Protection Agency standards and turned over to the State as parkland. The bill, SB-990, was authored by State Senator Sheila Kuehl (D-Los Angeles) in whose district Rocketdyne lies and was greeted with elation by environmentalists who have battled the aerospace giant for years over pollution problems emanating from the site which suffered a partial meltdown in 1959 that was the worst in U.S. history.

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For the entire article, see
http://enviroreporter.com/paydirt.html

See also

Boeing will clean up toxic Santa Susana Field Lab site

BY HARRISON SHEPPARD
LA Daily News
October 12, 2007

SACRAMENTO - In a landmark deal cautiously hailed by community and environmental activists, the Boeing Co. agreed on Friday to donate its contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory site to the state of California for use as open space after cleaning it up to state standards.

The deal - culminating an 18-year controversy since the Daily News disclosed toxic contamination of the research site - was negotiated by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration.

It calls for the company to contribute $22.5million over 30 years to an endowment fund to pay for maintaining the property in the hills above Simi Valley and Chatsworth as parkland.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_7165328

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