State Announces Clean Up For Contaminated Nuclear Site, Which Advocates Call, ‘A Back Room Deal'

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The state on Monday announced an agreement with the Boeing Corporation to clean up a large part of one of California’s most contaminated sites–the Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL)–located in the hills above the San Fernando and Simi Valleys.

In recent years, the head of the California Environmental Protection Agency, which oversees DTSC, has said he won't change the clean up requirements in the 2007 agreement.

But Dan Hirsch says the state has now, in fact, negotiated a more lenient clean up agreement with Boeing behind closed doors. Also opposed to the state's new agreement with Boeing are parents who live near the field lab, whose kids developed rare forms of cancer sometimes associated with radioactive or chemical contamination.

Bumstead's daughter Gracie developed a rare cancer at age four. "This agreement is going backwards. It's putting our kids at risk, we're not safer," says Bumstead.

 

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