Maggie Compton and son Ryan, a leukemia survivor, deliver petition to DTSC demanding it keep SSFL cleanup promises
Key recommendations include that DTSC’s EIR be revised to comply with the 2010 AOC cleanup agreements for full cleanup of DOE and NASA’s operational areas and DTSC’s prior commitment to cleanup the Boeing property to comparable levels. Groups also objected to the PEIR’s failure to include human health and ecological risk assessments for contamination on site currently and that could remain under any proposals that do not comply with prior cleanup commitments.
Over a thousand local residents submitted individual comments urging DTSC to keep its SSFL cleanup commitments. A petition launched by Melissa Bumstead, a parent whose young daughter had leukemia and has led advocacy efforts on behalf of families impacted by pediatric cancer near SSFL, now has over 100,000 signatures. (Keep those signatures coming! Click here to sign and share the petition.)
Comments from Governments and Elected Officials
- City of Los Angeles, NRDC, and CBG Joint Letter
- Ventura County Board of Supervisors
- LA County Board of Supervisors Chair Sheila Kuehl
- U.S. Congresswoman Julia Brownley
- California Senator Henry Stern
Comments from Community, Health, and Environmental Organizations
- Natural Resources Defense Council and Committee to Bridge the Gap – detailed supplemental comments. See related chemical comparison charts
- Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles (includes new report: “Analysis of Boeing’s Risk Assessments for the Santa Susana Laboratory”)
- Southern California Federation of Scientists
- LA Audubon
- Rocketdyne Cleanup Coalition
- Susana Knolls Homeowners Association
- Nuclear Information and Resource Service