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Boeing Asked to Join in SSFL Cleanup Agreement

September 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · History, Santa Susana Field Lab

According to a story in the VC Star today (9-9), local and state officials want Boeing to sign on to the recent SSFL cleanup agreement. The cleanup concept that is in the ”agreement of principal” between the California Dept. of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), DOE and NASA is based on cleaning up to background levels of [...]

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See a Video History of the Santa Susana Field Lab

September 6th, 2010 · No Comments · History, Santa Susana Field Lab

To see a video of the history of the Santa Susana Field Lab, click on this link:  http://www.conejopost.com/archives/3770   Go to Jim’s comment to find the link to a feature from the History Channel about the 1959 accident, that is now on YouTube.  Thanks, Jim, for forwarding this to the Conejo Post!

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More on Historic Agreement to Clean Up SSFL

September 4th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Santa Susana Field Lab

Christina Walsh of  http://cleanuprocketdyne.org  emailed the following, Friday (8-3) afternoon, in response to the news that California DTSC, and DOE and NASA have agreed “in principle” on the cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Lab in Simi Valley: “This is a landmark day and the most wonderful news I could possibly hear.  Thank you NASA and DOE [...]

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Happy Day! State, DOE, and NASA Agree on SSFL Cleanup!

September 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · California, Santa Susana Field Lab

An emailed press release today from the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA) announced that there are agreements in principle between the State and two federal agencies in regard to cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL) in Simi Valley! And, that these agreements between the California Dept. of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), the U.S. Dept. [...]

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Rocketdyne Museum, ACME, Holding Last Open House Tomorrow (3-28)

March 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

The American Cancer Museum of Education (ACME), founded by Christina Walsh and William Bowling, has lost it’s funding and is closing it’s doors.  But, before that happens, Christina and Bill have invited folks in the communities around Rocketdyne to come to an Open House Sunday (3-28), from 1 to 5 PM.  ACME is located at 23350 [...]

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Support for a New Community Group to Study Rocketdyne

January 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

From reading emails of the Rocketdyne Information Society, a Yahoo Discussion Group, it seems like Christina Walsh and William Bowling have ruffled a few feathers in their quest to start a new Community Action Group (CAG) to get involved with the Rocketdyne cleanup.  (Please see previous post of 1-23 for more information.) Some other groups [...]

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Save Open Space Comments on Rocketdyne Consent Order

October 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

Mary Wiesbrock, chair of Save Open Space/Santa Monica Mountains, released to the Conejo Post, an introduction to comments she made in a letter to the California Department of Toxic Substances, dated October 4. The agency asked for comments on their draft Consent Order, which is the SSFL  tentative cleanup agreement  between the state, NASA, and the U.S. [...]

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Norm Riley’s Email Clears Letter Confusion, Date Was September 4, 2007

September 5th, 2009 · No Comments · California

I received the following email comment from Norm Riley this morning, (Saturday, 9-5), and have decided to post it separately, as a correction to my post of yesterday, about Riley’s retirement and the “missing letter.” “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 [...]

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