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Community - West County
EPA to take charge of Ft. Meade pollution cleanupPublished 06/22/09
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Drawn-out efforts to remove toxins and dangerous waste at Fort Meade will come under the control of the Environmental Protection Agency under an agreement long sought by Maryland officials to push the cleanup along faster, Sen. Benjamin Cardin said Monday.
Fort Meade, one of the nation's largest military bases, has been a Superfund site since 1998 and cleanup efforts for a variety of contaminants have been under way for years. Community members around the base have wanted more supervisory power for the EPA.
A "federal facilities agreement" signed by the EPA, the Defense Department, the...
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