PLEASE SEE CORRECTION TO THIS POST, DATED 9-5, TITLE, “NORM RILEY’S EMAIL CLEARS LETTER CONFUSION…”Â
I have been posting about the controversy over Norm Riley’s recent removal as the Cal. Department of Toxic Substance’s (DTSC) Project Manager for the Rocketdyne cleanup. I received an email from Christina Walsh of cleanuprocketdyne.org on the Rocketdyne Information Society web group that she sent at 8:43 this morning. In it, Walsh said that Norm Riley was leaving public service.Â
When asked her source, Walsh said that the statement that the former DTSC Project Manager was “retiring from public service,” came in an email response to her from DTSC late yesterday. She had written a thank you email to Riley at his DTSC email address, and that was the response, along with the name of a DTSC official to contact.
As soon I read the email around 9 AM this morning, I decided to go to the DTSC website for the first time, at DTSC.ca.gov. I was looking for a public announcement of Riley’s retirement. What I found instead, as I scrolled down the page, was a copy of a letter to Boeing, dated September 4, from Norm Riley on DTSC letterhead. I was confused by the date, since it was today’s date, and I was puzzling about that as I skimmed the 1-1/2 page letter. Bascially, the letter talked about no final decision being made on some area or group until more data was in.
I left the website for a few minutes, and when I brought the DTSC website up again to read the letter with concentration, I could no longer find it on the website! It is like this strange case just keeps getting stranger!Â
Posted by Janna Orkney
Mary Wiesbrock // Sep 4, 2009 at 4:51 PM
Is Riley’s replacement going to issue a no further action on the chemicals for this Bell Canyon buffer area without enough proper data and sampling? Let’s hope not!
Mary Wiesbrock
Norman E. Riley // Sep 5, 2009 at 11:36 AM
Dear Editor:
Perhaps this is the letter you saw:
http://dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/upload/SSFL_Ltr_RFI_Group6.pdf. My last day at DTSC was September 3, 2009. I wrote no letter dated September 4, 2009.