Conejo Post

William Bowling and Christina Walsh of  the Aerospace Cancer Museum of Education (ACME) have turned in a petition for a Community Advisory Group (CAG) for Rocketdyne’s Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL).  They submitted it to the California Department of Toxic Substances (DTSC).

Bill and Christina are inviting us to join them at the ACME office and museum on Thursday, January 28 at 6:30 PM to talk about their submittal to the DTSC for a CAG.
To paraphrase Bill’s message on the Rocketdyne Information Society email group:  The new CAG would provide a place where we could all share our views and concerns.  It would also give us a way to be updated by each of the regulatory agencies on each of the many issues currently ongoing at Rocketdyne.

Bill also said, “We can also hire independent experts (with the CAG), which is something we have never had. This is not to say that we don’t have some wonderful expertise with DTSC, but something we are certainly lacking is RAD (radiation) expertise and that is not available to us within DTSC. There has always been an issue about the independence of the contractors doing the reports, and having independent expertise could be very helpful for this community who has had trust issues with the data for decades.”  For more info, go to:  http://acmela. org/cag.html 

Post by Janna Orkney, some text by William Preston Bowling