[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Chemical Waste Management at Lake Ontario site (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

CWM wants federal funds for cleanup
Parcel includes site eyed for expansion

By Aaron Besecker
BUFFALO NEWS (NY)
September 18, 2009

CWM Chemical Services wants the federal government to clean up 
radiological contamination on a part of its property it is considering 
for a new hazardous waste landfill.

In a letter sent to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Attorney 
General Eric H. Holder Jr., CWM has requested radiological contamination 
be removed from a piece of former federal land that now is part of its 
Town of Porter facility.

"If the Department of Defense/ Army Corps of Engineers fail to address 
this contamination in a timely fashion," the April letter from District 
Manager Michael D. Mahar reads, "CWM will do so and will seek to recover 
all of its costs from the United States."
....

For the entire article, see
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/niagaracounty/story/799472.html

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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>
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