Plea for superfund money

Legislators and activists involved with the Santa Susana Field Lab are
urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to support Superfund status for the
former nuclear research and rocket-engine test site. Kerry Cavanaugh in the Daily News.

The governor is expected to decide by the end of the month whether he
supports placing the 2,850-acre lab on the National Priorities List,
which would bring U.S. Environmental Protection Agency oversight and
stringent cleanup standards that lab neighbors have long sought.

"The community has been praying for a decade that this site would be
added to Superfund list," said Dan Hirsch of the Committee to Bridge
the Gap, a watchdog group that has followed the field lab controversy.

"If the governor blocks Superfund listing, he would be doing a favor
to the polluter and a grave injustice to the people who live near this
site."