Boeing agrees to clean site
In a landmark deal cautiously hailed by community and environmental activists, the Boeing Co. agreed on Friday to donate its contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory site to the state of California for use as open space after cleaning it up to state standards. Harrison Sheppard in the Daily News.
The deal - culminating an 18-year controversy since the Daily News disclosed toxic contamination of the research site - was negotiated by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration.
It calls for the company to contribute $22.5million over 30 years to an endowment fund to pay for maintaining the property in the hills above Simi Valley and Chatsworth as parkland.
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