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June 22, 2007
Bad Bill for Boeing and
Business
By
Glenn Bishop
2007 Chair of the Board
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Santa Susana Field Laboratory, located 30 miles north of
downtown Los Angeles, was a rocket and nuclear reactor test
facility. It is now a research facility for Boeing and NASA.
A bill in the state legislature, SB 990 would impose
sale/transfer restrictions on the site unless US
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) based cleanup
standards were adopted for the environmental remediation
work currently being undertake at the site.
The legislature is attempting to place burdensome
regulations on a site that the Redondo Beach Chamber
believes can be best fixed by business. Here’s the deal: SB
990 would impose a theoretical one-in-a-million risk level
that is based on remediation for agricultural land use,
which is highly unlikely. This bill unfairly singles out the
2,800 acres owned and occupied by Boeing and NASA at a site
where the company is in the final status of a longstanding
environmental remediation effort for NASA and the Department
of Energy. For the last fifteen years, Boeing has complied
with all federal and state laws and regulation to ensure the
area is remediated using safe and protective cleanup
standards.
SB 990 would overrule local land use decisions despite a
long term environmental remediation effort that has exceeded
radiological cleanup standards that are used in every other
state in the nation.
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