Gallegly Says U.S. Will Restore Some Funds for Rockwell Lab’s Cleanup
Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-Simi Valley) announced Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Energy has agreed to restore some of the funding it intended to cut next year for ongoing cleanup operations at Rockwell’s Santa Susana Field Laboratory west of Chatsworth.
Gallegly, in a statement released from his Washington office, said that although it is not clear how much additional money will be provided, he hopes that the full spending cut of $960,000 will be restored.
John Frith, a Gallegly spokesman, said the congressman recently received a letter from Leo Duffy, a top-level DOE official in Washington, assuring him that more money would be available next year for cleanup at the lab southeast of Simi Valley.
Rockwell is engaged in a multi-year cleanup of mostly low-level chemical and radioactive contamination from more than 30 years of nuclear research at the lab.
DOE officials announced in September that $960,000 would be cut from next year’s $10.7-million cleanup budget.
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