[CPEO-MEF] Rocketdyne (CA) superfund?

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

EPA extends deadline for Field Lab
Agency seeks to add site to Superfund cleanup

By Rachel McGrath
Ventura County Star (CA)
January 9, 2008


The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted Gov. Arnold 
Schwarzenegger and the California EPA more time to respond to the 
federal agency's proposal that it should oversee the cleanup of the 
Santa Susana Field Laboratory site south of Simi Valley.

The federal EPA sent a letter to Schwarzenegger on Dec. 6 detailing the 
findings of its latest study of the 2,850-acre former rocket engine 
testing site known as Rocketdyne and proposing that it should be 
designated as a Superfund site.

The EPA asked the state to respond within 30 days to the letter, which 
included the site's background and history of chemical contamination of 
soil and groundwater. EPA officials estimate there are 500,000 gallons 
of tichloroethylene, a toxic chemical, lying beneath the site.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jan/09/epa-extends-deadline-for-field-lab/

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