[CPEO-MEF] REGULATION: Santa Susana (CA) cleanup deal

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Santa Susana cleanup deal released
Boeing isn't a part of state, federal agreement

By Teresa Rochester
Ventura County Star (CA)
August 19, 2009


A draft cleanup agreement between the state and two federal agencies 
that conducted operations at a polluted former rocket engine and nuclear 
test site near Simi Valley was released Wednesday for public review and 
comment.

Missing from the consent order between the state's Department of Toxic 
Substances Control, the U.S. Department of Energy and NASA is the Boeing 
Co., the primary owner of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory.

"Unfortunately we have not gotten to a public review stage with Boeing," 
Maziar Movassaghi, acting director of the DTSC, said in an interview.

Movassaghi declined to discuss the sticking point in negotiations but 
said the tentative agreement with the two federal agencies covers about 
90 percent of the radiological contamination at the site and 50 percent 
of the chemical pollution.

The release of the draft agreement came with the announcement that the 
DTSC's project manager for the cleanup, Norman Riley, has been replaced 
by Rick Brausch, an assistant director in the department.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/aug/19/santa-susana-cleanup-deal-released/

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