Waste Sites on Military Bases
Of the 10 Orange County hazardous waste sites, presumably the 10 most critical, identified on the sketch map and tabulation on the front page of the Orange County section of your Nov. 16 issue, three--the El Toro Marine Base, the Marine Air Station at Tustin and the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station--are U.S. government military installations.
You indicate that the state is responsible for cleaning them up. Why?
Since the federal government is the cause of the problem in these three locations, why shouldn’t it have the duty to clean them up?
M.R. JOURDANE
Seal Beach
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