2016 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 07:39:18 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, FORMER SITES: West Lake Landfill, suburban St. Louis (MO)
 
Corps: Giving it contaminated landfill would not speed fix

By JIM SUHR
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)(
June 7, 2016
 

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Efforts to resolve a burning suburban St. Louis landfill near buried radioactive waste will not be hastened if oversight of the project is shifted from federal environmentalists to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a top Corps official has argued.

Steven Stockton, the Corps' civil works director, wrote in a letter last week to Republican Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan that authority over the West Lake Landfill might best be left to the Environmental Protection Agency, not a Corps program created to handle radioactively tainted sites.

Federal legislation, including in the Upton-led House Committee on Energy and Commerce, seeks to put the landfill effort in the hands of the Corps' Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.stltoday.com/news/state-and-regional/missouri/corps-giving-it-contaminated-landfill-would-not-speed-fix/article_ae78f952-f29d-5419-812f-c7ca7616a6de.html

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