Santa Susana lab could be state park

- A bill to convert the Santa Susana Field Laboratory site into a state park was formally introduced in the Legislature this week, but it is likely to be at least a decade before the project could begin. Harrison Sheppard in the Daily News.

Assembly Bill 1842 by Assemblyman Cameron Smyth, R-Santa Clarita, would create a joint-powers authority with seven state and local agencies to oversee the creation of a park on the 2,850-acre property after it is cleaned up by Boeing Co. and turned over to the state.

Boeing recently reached an agreement with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to pay for cleaning the contaminated land to high standards and then give it to the state for use only as open space.