Spring Valley: Toxic Waste Contamination in the Nation's Capital : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the District of Columbia of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session, July 27, 2001U.S. Government Printing Office, 2002 - 336 pages |
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A.N. Miller Companies activities Army's ATSDR AUES Baltimore District Benjamin Ladner burial of munitions buried munitions Camp American University Camp Leach campus cancer chemical warfare chemical weapons Child Development Center claims cleanup Colonel FIALA concerns conducted construction contamination Corps of Engineers Court decision Department of Health Detected determine dinitrotoluene discretionary function District of Columbia documents Edgewood Arsenal Eleanor Holmes Norton Environmental Protection Agency excavation F.Supp Federal Formerly Used Defense FTCA Glenbrook Glenbrook Road hazardous homeowners identified January July 27 laboratory LADNER levels of arsenic Lewisite located materials MORELLA NORTON Occupational Health ordnance OSR FUDS plaintiff points of interest potential remediation request response risk assessment sampling plan Scientific Advisory Panel soil sampling Spring Valley area Spring Valley community Spring Valley Scientific Subcommittee summary judgment Superfund testing Thank Trenches U.S. Army Corps United USACE VOLTAGGIO Walker Washington
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