[CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP, NATIVE PEOPLES: Santa Susana Field Lab (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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NASA, the Chumash and the Burro Flats pictographs
Itâs a deal â maybe

By Joan Trossman Bien
Ventura County Reporter (CA)
June 13, 2013


After a half-century of delays, and just when you thought the  
mandatory cleanup might finally move forward at the contaminated  
Boeing-owned Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL), yet another signed  
agreement seems to be poised to fail. The December 2010 consent  
agreement signed by the Department of Energy and NASA with the  
California Department of Toxic Substances Control, the agency in  
charge of the cleanup, might have been the final agreement that would  
see actual progress in remediating the witchâs brew of toxic  
chemicals, heavy metals and radiation that permeates the compound,  
the residue of a Cold War.


Agencies and others in the agreement, however, are now sending mixed  
signals as to their future intentions, adding a level of confusion  
and uncertainty, beginning with the ownership of SSFL.


âBoeing owns most of SSFL and the federal government owns the  
remainder (all of Area II and a portion of Area l),â said Merrilee  
Fellows, NASA Public Affairs Officer for SSFL. âThese federal lands  
are referred to as âowned by the federal government and administered  
by NASA.â The portion of SSFL occupied by DOE is owned by Boeing and  
leased by DOE.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/?id=10960

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