Re: [CPEO-MEF] VOCs, CLOSURE: EPA disputes Navy at Moffett Field (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Navy: Moffett's toxic vapors not our problem
EPA files dispute against the Navy

by Daniel DeBolt
Mountain View Voice (CA)
December 9, 2010

Toxic fumes will continue to collect inside some of Moffett Field's 
buildings while the U.S. Navy and NASA disagree on who is responsible 
for the problem, the Environmental Protection Agency says.

The Navy was expected to take on the responsibility, as it is a major 
party responsible for the plume of TCE and other toxics in the 
groundwater under the former Naval Air Station Moffett Field. And while 
the Navy, along with semiconductor companies south for Highway 101, has 
been doing its part to clean up the groundwater plume, the Navy is now 
saying that NASA, which was given the facility in 1994, should deal with 
the vapors that rise through the ground into buildings at Moffett.

Under superfund law, "it is definitely the Navy's responsibility," said 
John Chesnutt, section chief of superfund federal facility cleanup. EPA 
Region 9 has filed a formal dispute against the Navy after it became 
clear in an October letter exchange that the Navy managers in charge of 
Moffett's cleanup were refusing to take responsibility for the fumes.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=3692&e=y

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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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