[CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP: Hill Air Force Base (UT) review

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Consultants, advisers: Clean-up on track

By Benjamin Marrs and John Gillespie
Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment
Hilltop Times (UT)
February 18, 2010

A team of Air Force and consulting scientists reviewing the 
environmental cleanup program at Hill Air Force Base has found that base 
officials managing environmental clean-up will meet or exceed key 
milestones.

The accelerated progress made at Hill AFB means base environmental 
officials are on track for compliance with the Air Force goal of 
"Remedy-in-Place" by 2012 at the majority of sites. The advisers say 
continuing to focus on monitoring indoor air quality in new and existing 
buildings, and focusing on cleaning up solvents will set the stage for 
negotiations with Utah officials to "close out" cleanup efforts.

The Nov. 2-10 expert review of Hill's environmental clean-up program is 
part of a unique program sponsored by the Air Force Center for 
Engineering and the Environment to assist bases by providing an 
intensive evaluation of clean-up efforts to ensure they are protective, 
efficient, timely, and that decision-makers are informed. This 
"Environmental Restoration Program Optimization" review, or ERP-O, 
included key questions posed by Hill officials to accelerate the closure 
of sites that are poised to enter the final stages of environmental 
cleanup.

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For the entire article/release, see
http://www.standard.net/topics/hilltop-times/2010/02/17/consultants-advisers-clean-track

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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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