[CPEO-MEF] CONTRACTORS, REGULATION: "Boeing blocks lab cleanup" - Santa Susana Lab (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Boeing blocks lab cleanup
Rocketdyne lab remediation left in limbo

By Michael Collins
Ventura County Reporter (CA)
November 19, 2009

Boeing's filing of a federal complaint on Friday the 13th against the 
state's Department of Toxic Substances Control over cleaning up the 
monstrously polluted Santa Susana Field Lab was no tardy Halloween 
trick. The move attempts to gut state Senate Bill 990, which was signed 
by Governor Schwarzenegger in October 2007, to ensure that the 
2,850-acre site is cleaned up to the highest standards.

Invalidating SB 990 would save Boeing hundreds of millions of dollars. 
The state's stringent cleanup levels would be relaxed, saving Boeing on 
the amount of soil and groundwater contamination that would have to be 
removed from the site and sent to a dump.

If Boeing is successful, federal EPA "Superfund" standards would apply. 
That would protect the defense contractor giant from most of the 
remediation costs, due to a Supreme Court ruling earlier this year that 
restricts Superfund liabilities for some corporations.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/boeing_blocks_lab_cleanup/7416/

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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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