A History of the American University Experiment Station AUES Site

Case Study A State s Effort to Get the Corps of Engineers to Clean Up a Chemical Weapons Development Manufacturing and Test Site 

These documents also suggest formats that might be helpful in presenting requests or information to a responsible party, citizens or other regulators. Environmental cleanups of the type contemplated by this book (i.e., ranges) 

These documents also suggest general lines of inquiry. One of these documents (Chapter 11) was written at the early stages of the cleanup effort when little was known. Nevertheless, it illustrates how broad concerns can be framed to create a study framework by the regulator. This and other documents can provide checkhsts for regulators, residents, and stakeholders to ensure that all necessary considerations are taken into account and all necessary work is performed. Documents hke the Conceptual Site Model in Chapter 17 are actually encouraged by the EPA. 

This case study is also a success story on how a local government can demand an environmental cleanup of a chemical weapons site, even after a no further action (NOFA) decision had been made by the Army and the EPA. It also confirms the wisdom of Congress in creating the Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP), so that a state or local government (the District of Columbia, in this case) could hire people to oversee the military s work. 

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A History of the American University Experiment Station (AUES) Site... 

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