Restoration Advisory Board

MDM mnltipurpose demilitarization machine RAB Restoration Advisory Board... 

A subgroup of the committee met with chairpersons of the Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) and the stockpile Citizens Advisory Commission, both at Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), in March 2001. ... 

Restoration Advisory Board Meeting, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryiand, Juiy 28, 2001... 

On or about January 22, 2002, the EPA, the District of Columbia, the ACOE, and Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) members met with Sandra Sharpe, a current resident of the area, and toured the American University and seminary property. Sharpe described three concrete bunkers that she remembered from her childhood. She thought that two were in the vicinity of the American University athletic fields, bordering the driveway. These two concrete bunkers she remembered as being in the woods at American University. Understandably, locating them precisely was impossible because the woods no longer existed. Also, there was a question as to whether the bunkers were the same ones as were located on another property. Sharpe felt strongly that her bunkers were in a different location. 

One of the CERCLA and RCRA remedy selection factors noted earlier is community acceptance. It is, however, only a modifying factor. Community members can influence and sometimes take actions that lead to the rejection of remedial alternatives that they oppose, but they do not have the authority to veto otherwise scientifically acceptable alternatives.10 There are also additional, more formal activities associated with federal facility restoration activities, such as funding of restoration site advisory boards composed of local citizens. 

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