[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "Air Force seeks meeting with EPA over Pease [NH] order"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air Force seeks meeting with EPA over Pease order

By Jeff McMenemy
Seacoast Online (NH)
July 13. 2015

PORTSMOUTH - The U.S. Air Force says it intends to ask for a meeting with Environmental Protection Agency officials after the EPA issued an order last week requiring them to treat the now-closed Haven well.

Linda Geissinger, a public affairs specialist for the Air Force Civil Engineer Center – which has been working to help monitor the contamination of the city-owned well - said in a statement they will take advantage of a provision that allows them to ask for the meeting.

William Walsh-Rogalski, a lawyer with the EPA’s regional office in Boston, sent a letter to U.S. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James informing her about the 36-page administrative order.

In the letter, Walsh-Rogalski states the Air Force has the opportunity “to confer with EPA in regards to the terms of this order,” if the request is received within three days.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20150713/NEWS/150719666

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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