Services May Scuttle Draft Defense Policy On Perchlorate Cleanup

By Suzanne Yohannan / June 17, 2003 at 5:00 AM
Defense Environment Alert -- The military services have raised issues with a draft policy on perchlorate the Office of the Secretary of Defense has been considering that would lift restrictions on sampling for the chemical and establish 1 part per billion (ppb) as a trigger level to consider action. OSD officials have refused to comment on the status of the draft policy, which has not been discussed for weeks with the services, one military source says. This source speculates OSD...

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