House Votes to Restore Funding for Cleanup
Activists pushing for a timely cleanup of Rocketdyne’s Santa Susana Field Laboratory near Simi Valley have moved one step closer to victory after the U.S. House voted to restore full funding for the project last week.
Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-Simi Valley) led the push to return $3.7 million to the cleanup budget, bringing the total back to the $17 million that cleanup advocates expected. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) also supported the effort.
Cleanup of the Department of Energy’s portion of the lab site, now owned by Boeing Co., is meant to rid soil, buildings and water of contamination from decades of rocket-engine testing and Cold War-era nuclear research.
Full funding for the project must still be approved by the Senate and President Bush. Gallegly says he is not worried about those approvals.
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