[CPEO-MEF] MERCURY: Defense Logistics Agency, Hillsborough, NJ

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hillsborough to file suit over stalled mercury removal at GSA depot

By PAMELA SROKA-HOLZMANN
New Brunswick Home News Tribune (NJ)
September 10, 2008


The removal of 2,615 metric tons of mercury stored at the General 
Services Administration depot has turned into years of false deadlines, 
delayed promises and an ongoing waiting game, municipal officials said.

And now, township officials say the Defense Logistics Agency's time is up.

During Tuesday night's Township Committee meeting, Mayor Anthony Ferrera 
announced that the township has authorized its attorney, Albert Cruz, to 
bring legal against the Defense Logistics Agency in an effort to compel 
the agency to implement its 2006 impact plan and record of decision. 
Both documents had called for the consolidation of all the nation's 
mercury -- stored in Hillsborough, Tennessee, Ohio, and Indiana --be 
transported to the remote Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080910/NEWS/80910020

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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
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