[NukeNet] Urgent Action Alert on Santa Susana Field Lab

[Will Parrish]

For folks in California, and elsewhere...

 

URGENT ACTION ALERT ON SANTA SUSANA FIELD LAB

August 29, 2007

Dear Friends,

 

We need your help to get the Santa Susana Field Lab cleaned up properly
and enduringly. This site is heavily contaminated with radionuclides and
toxic chemicals from several nuclear meltdowns and years of rocket
testing. CA State Senator Sheila Kuehl has submitted a SB990 that will
mandate this action. It passed the CA Senate in May. It will be voted on
in the Appropriations Committee tomorrow, Thursday, August 30. Below you
will find a list of members of the committee. Please take the time to
call as many members as you can and let them know that you support
SB990. Future generations are counting on you.

 

Mark Leno - Chair Dem-13 (916) 319-2013

 Assemblymember.leno at assembly.ca.gov
<mailto:Assemblymember.leno at assembly.ca.gov> 

 

 Mimi Walters - Vice Chair Rep-73 916) 319-2073

 Assemblymember.walters at assembly.ca.gov
<mailto:Assemblymember.walters at assembly.ca.gov> 

 

 Anna M. Caballero Dem-28 (916) 319-2028

 Assemblymember.Caballero at assembly.ca.gov
<mailto:Assemblymember.Caballero at assembly.ca.gov> 

 

 Mike Davis Dem-48 (916) 319-2048

 Assemblymember.Davis at assembly.ca.gov
<mailto:Assemblymember.Davis at assembly.ca.gov> 

 

 Mark DeSaulnier Dem-11 (916) 319-2011

 Assemblymember.DeSaulnier at assembly.ca.gov
<mailto:Assemblymember.DeSaulnier at assembly.ca.gov> 

 

 Bill Emmerson Rep-63 (916) 319-2063

 Assemblymember.emmerson at assembly.ca.gov
<mailto:Assemblymember.emmerson at assembly.ca.gov> 

 

 Jared Huffman Dem-6 (916) 319-2006

 Assemblymember.Huffman at assembly.ca.gov
<mailto:Assemblymember.Huffman at assembly.ca.gov> 

 

 Betty Karnette Dem-54 (916) 319-2054

 Assemblymember.Karnette at assembly.ca.gov
<mailto:Assemblymember.Karnette at assembly.ca.gov> 

 

 Paul Krekorian Dem-43 (916) 319-2043

 Assemblymember.Krekorian at assembly.ca.gov
<mailto:Assemblymember.Krekorian at assembly.ca.gov> 

 

 Doug La Malfa Rep-2 (916) 319-2002

 Assemblymember.lamalfa at assembly.ca.gov
<mailto:Assemblymember.lamalfa at assembly.ca.gov> 

 

 Ted W. Lieu Dem-53 (916) 319-2053

 Assemblymember.Lieu at assembly.ca.gov
<mailto:Assemblymember.Lieu at assembly.ca.gov> 

 

 Fiona Ma Dem-12 (916) 319-2012 Assemblymember.Ma at assembly.ca.gov
<mailto:Assemblymember.Ma at assembly.ca.gov> 

 

 Alan Nakanishi Rep-10 (916) 319-2010

 Assemblymember.nakanishi at assembly.ca.gov
<mailto:Assemblymember.nakanishi at assembly.ca.gov> 

 

 Pedro Nava Dem-35 (916) 319-2035

 Assemblymember.nava at assembly.ca.gov
<mailto:Assemblymember.nava at assembly.ca.gov> 

 

 Sharon Runner Rep-36 (916) 319-2036

 Assemblywoman.Runner at assembly.ca.gov
<mailto:Assemblywoman.Runner at assembly.ca.gov> 

 

 Jose Solorio Dem-69 (916) 319-2069

 Assemblymember.solorio at assembly.ca.gov
<mailto:Assemblymember.solorio at assembly.ca.gov> 

 

 

The original press release issued at the time the bill was introduced is
printed below, along with websites for more information. Sheila Kuehl's
website has an entire section devoted to this catastrophe.

 

Local Ventura County citizens who are part of Clean Up Rocketdyne 

will be going door to door in the capitol, so anything that makes

 the staffers more familiar with the site will be helpful to the

 process! Tell them you'll be watching how they vote and that

 cleanuprocketdyne.org will be posting the vote as well. We also need

 the Governor to be educated on the site because he is the one to

 either sign or veto. Thank you so much for taking the time to help
clean up our local corner of our nuclear world.

 

For a Nuclear Free World,

Pamela Meidell and Monika Szymurska

Atomic Mirror

 

Community groups involved with this issue:

www.committeetobridgethegap.org

www.rocketdynewatch.org

www.cleanuprocketdyne.org     

  

Senator Sheila Kuehl

Senate Passes SB 990: Santa Susana Field Laboratory Must Be Cleaned Up
Before Sale

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

 

Senate Passes SB 990

Santa Susana Field Laboratory Must Be Cleaned Up Before Sale

 

For Immediate Release: May 22, 2007 

Contact: Laura Plotkin at (310) 441-9084 or

              Jennifer Richard at (916)651-4023

 

Yesterday, May 21, 2007, the California Senate passed Senate Bill 990, a
bill authored by State Senator Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica), by a vote
of 21 to 16. The measure would require the Santa Susana Field Laboratory
(SSFL) site to meet the Environmental Protection Agency's Comprehensive
Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) clean up
standards prior to any sale, lease or transfer of all or any part of the
property.  The bill also consolidates the oversight of the chemical and
radioactive contamination remediation of the Santa Susana Field
Laboratory site under the lead agency authority of California's
Department of Toxic Substance Control, which is already overseeing the
clean-up of chemical contamination at the site.

 

The Santa Susana Field Laboratory was once a prolific rocket and
experimental nuclear reactor test facility and was the site of a partial
nuclear meltdown in 1959.  The site has long been the source of
community concern because of the health effects on the surrounding
community of the many years of unsafe and illegal disposal of toxic
materials from the facility.  In the 1990's the facility operators pled
guilty to three felony crimes of illegal disposal of hazardous
materials.

 

"It is important to protect current and future residents from the toxic
effects of releasing this land for housing development unless it is
cleaned up to the appropriate environmental standard," said Senator
Kuehl.

 

Earlier this month the U.S. District Court held that the Bush
administration had conducted a flawed study of radioactive contamination
at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory Facility and had, therefore,
adopted a cleanup standard that would expose future residents to
elevated risks of cancer. Among other things, the Court said that the
Department of Energy had overlooked groundwater contamination,
disregarded the combined effects of chemical and radioactive
contamination, and set a radiation standard that would give every
exposed person a 3-in-10,000 chance of getting cancer, far above EPA
safety levels established under CERCLA.

 

SB 990 (Kuehl) now moves to the Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxics
Materials Committee, where it must be heard before July 13th.

 

 

 

Monika Szymurska

Assistant Director

Atomic Mirror

 

PO Box 220

Port Hueneme, CA 93044

Phone (805) 487-8986

Fax (805) 487-2124

monika at atomicmirror.org

 

www.atomicmirror.org 

 

 

Will Parrish

Youth Empowerment Director

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

PMB 121, 1187 Coast Village Road, Suite 1

Santa Barbara, CA 93108

wparrish at napf.org

Phone: (805) 965-3443; Fax: (805) 568-0466

www.wagingpeace.org/youth; www.ucnuclearfree.org;
www.thinkoutsidethebomb.org

 

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