[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, BUDGET: "Suozzi seeks federal budget boost to help clean up Grumman [Bethpage, NY] plume"

[Lenny Siegel]

Suozzi seeks federal budget boost to help clean up Grumman plume

By Paul LaRocco and David M. Schwartz
Long Island Newsday (NY)

Rep. Thomas Suozzi urged the House Appropriations Committee Thursday to significantly boost the federal budget for cleaning polluted former U.S. Navy sites, citing the Grumman groundwater contamination plume’s continued spread through Bethpage and beyond.

Appearing before the Appropriations defense subcommittee, Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) asked for a “monumental, but necessary” $500 million increase in the Navy’s Environmental Restoration Fund, which President Donald Trump wants to cut from $385 million this year to $335 million in 2021.

The fund covers all sites with Navy ties that still require remediation, more than 1,800 nationwide. But Suozzi said the circumstances of the Grumman plume - for which the Navy shares responsibility as part owner of facilities that Grumman operated - stand out for its contamination of Long Island's aquifer, the region’s only drinking water source.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/investigations/grumman-plume-suozzi-bethpage-1.42965718

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel at cpeo.org
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