Re: [CPEO-MEF] COLLECTING INFORMATION ON THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE FEDERAL SHUTDOWN

[Peter Strauss <petestrauss1@comcast.net>]

Lenny:
As you know I am a technical advisor to several communities in CA and we both work occasionally in NY.  As a TA, I review selected technical documents, attend meetings and write reports.  At one site, due to the sequester, the National Remedy Review Board met by tele-conference.  It's been about 4 months and they haven't issued a decision, which is important to the community because we have taken on the issue of a TI Waiver.  Two TA grant extensions were also held up due to the sequester.

I have a scheduled conference call with EPA and the regulators next week, but if there is no resolution to the budget this will be cancelled.  The same goes for a meeting scheduled next week with the community and regulators at LLNL.  The Navy and NASA seem to have also reduced the volume of reports.

As such, from my perspective, I too am almost furloughed.  I would like to hear from others whose incomes have been drastically reduced due to the lack activity.

Peter 
On Oct 4, 2013, at 2:03 PM, Lenny Siegel wrote:

> Please excuse redundant postings. – LS
> 
> 
> This week I was supposed to fly to the East Coast for meetings that would have included an EPA Public Information session in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey and a Restoration Advisory Board meeting at Ft. Monmouth, also in New Jersey. Both were cancelled, so I had to skip the trip.
> 
> Here in Mountain View, California we've been working with EPA to set up a public meeting later this month to update the community on the groundwater and indoor air sampling activities along Evandale Avenue. Presumably that meeting has been delayed as well.
> 
> One by one, I'm beginning to hear that national meetings I've been planning to attend are being postponed or cancelled because federal employee participants are "locked out" by the failure of Congress to appropriate funds.
> 
> The Federal shutdown is having a growing impact on environmental cleanup and other programs, but the people whose job it is to report on these things are themselves on forced furlough.
> 
> Therefore, I'm collecting information about ACTIVITIES NOT HAPPENING because of the lack of appropriations. These may include meetings, grant offerings or payments, studies, or actual physical remediation.
> 
> I'm also interested in examples of how the shutdown in imposing NEW COSTS. For example, canceling my trip has stuck me with a $200 airline change fee.
> 
> Please e-mail me with your experiences. It's important that people know that the shutdown has significant environmental consequences.
> 
> Lenny
> 
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> Lenny Siegel
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Peter Strauss
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