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Date: Jan. 31, 2007 |
PACIFIC STRIKE TEAM ASSISTS WITH CHEMICAL CLEANUP |
Two members of the Pacific Strike Team deployed this morning to assist the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's emergency removal group cleanup hazardous substances at a former print and circuit board manufacturing and metal plating facility outside Los Angeles.
According to the EPA, the company located in Chatsworth, Calif., used copper, lead, nickel, silver, hydrochloric acid, cyanide, sulfuric acid and other hazardous substances in its plating operations.
For more information about the EPA's response, please contact Margot Perez-Sullivan by e-mail at perezsullivan.margot@epa.gov or by phone at (415) 947-4149 or (415) 760-9161.
For EPA Region 9 news releases, please visit http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/Press%20Releases%20from%20Region%209?OpenView
For more information about the Coast Guard Pacific Strike Team, please contact the Public Information Assist Team at (252) 331-6000.
For online information about the Pacific Strike Team, please visit http://www.USCGNSFnews.com/go/page/771/15053/
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