[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Federal goal is more Hanford [WA] land access"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Federal goal is more Hanford land access

By Annette Cary
Tri-City Herald
March 27, 2014

The Department of Energy wants to provide additional access to  
Hanford land as it is cleaned up, a top official said Thursday.

Dave Huizenga, senior adviser for DOE's Office of Environmental  
Management, said the department has been receiving input from the  
tribes, Tri-Cities organizations and the general public, and will  
consider that input.

"The overall thrust is to try to turn some of that land back over to  
the community for reuse," he said.

Huizenga made the remarks at a Congressional Nuclear Cleanup Caucus  
briefing organized by Rep. Doc Hastings.

Discussions have begun in the Tri-Cities on future land use as DOE  
expects to complete environmental cleanup on much of the 220 square  
miles of Hanford land near the Columbia River in 2015.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2014/03/27/2899232/federal-goal-is-more- 
hanford-land.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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