The Region - News from July 4, 1986

Two U.S. Marine Corps facilities have violated federal clean air standards, according to a lawsuit filed in Orange County Superior Court by the South Coast Air Quality Management District. The agency, which monitors air pollution in the Los Angeles Basin, said a facility used for testing jet engines at the Marine Corps Air Station at El Toro has been responsible for continuing violations of clean air standards since January. A facility at Camp Cristianitos, the northernmost end of the Marine base at Camp Pendleton, also violated clean air standards last year, according to the suit. Marine spokesmen at both facilities declined to comment, saying they had not had a chance to study the lawsuit.