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State to take over former Rocketdyne site
The Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a former rocket engine and nuclear test site in the hills south of Simi Valley, will be transferred to the state and off-limits to development if a tentative agreement between its owner, The Boeing Co., and the state becomes binding.
The potential transfer is part of a complicated deal that was part of an announcement Friday by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger¹s office that the governor would sign a bill that mandates Boeing to clean the 2,849-acre site to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency¹s highest standards before it is released for development.
The bill, SB 990 was proposed by Senator Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica, and its passage in the Assembly last month, capped a six-year legislative battle to ensure strict cleanup standards are used at the field laboratory, which has both chemical and radioactive contamination.
The tentative agreement released Friday was signed by Boeing, the California Environmental Protection Agency and Resources Agency. It requires Boeing to enter into a binding agreement with the state that calls for the land to be cleaned to ³levels acceptable for residential use and that protect individuals living in the vicinity of the property.² The agreement would also mandate Boeing release the land to the state and it would be used for park, recreational or open-space uses.
Once the binding agreement is reached, Kuehl will carry a bill next legislative season that would void the portions of SB 990, that call for the Santa Susana Field Laboratory to be cleaned to Superfund standards before it is released by Boeing.
Posted by RelaxPeople on October 12, 2007 at 4:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Rocketdyne? The creators of The Terminator, right?
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