Santa Susana cleanup plan ok'd

Federal agencies owning about a quarter of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory site Friday agreed to meet the strictest environmental standards in cleaning up their portion of the property that was contaminated with toxic and nuclear waste during years of rocket testing.
In what state officials called a "major breakthrough," Tony Castro in the Daily News.

NASA and the federal Department of Energy have consented to clean their 740 acres of the 2,849-acre site to the highest standards sought by activists and required by state law.