[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Chanute transfer from Air Force to Rantoul [IL] becomes official today"

[Lenny Siegel]

Chanute transfer from Air Force to Rantoul becomes official today

By DAVE HINTON 
News-Gazette (IL)
October 25, 2023

RANTOUL — While the official closure of Chanute as an Air Force base took place 30 years ago last month and the final property transfer was completed last month, today’s the day the handover from the military to the village will be complete.

That said, the environmental cleanup of the site is still a long way from completion.

Paul Carroll, a program manager for the Air Force Base Realignment and Closure program, said the Air Force is still actively remediating and investigating potential contamination associated with the firefighting foam once used on base.

Updated Environmental Protection Agency guidelines have prompted more stringent cleanup action, he said.

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https://www.news-gazette.com/news/chanute-transfer-from-air-force-to-rantoul-becomes-official-today/article_d063c57b-ceb2-59cf-a763-7a93bb4c6e07.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel at cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)