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TCE I se ek { on chemical lfm Pap IB of the contaminated wanted to know EPA was going to fain tTew mother ughter has a brain asked an EPA toxi whether he would re naisdii neighborhood if he sere in her situation. The tox- cologist, Stan Smucker, said +e would stay. Smt�ker also told the krowd that there is no immedi- 4 ate short -ter or sm risk posed TCE. ,Par clean an e m three of the four Moun- _, sites, acid the agen- cy will meet with the comlra- #s responsible for cleaning ip t 1 CE to develop a plan br to the soil indoor air uid outdoor air The cost and scoppee of the satin have yet to be deter - nlnetl, but Adams td she ex- > the sampling to begin m 'But to some residents, that ja'not soon enough �� is blacks from structure that cleans contami- pated groundwater by letting v�tl TCE evaporate into the air, ia" about ' �extr ? ner hying so .se to the facility. He was told by Al- ena Lee, an EPA project man- y .££' bat absolutely bat8es ne " Nybo said. "Pd like to see t done next week." Lee said the agency would Ict within days to shut down reatment facilities if it found widence that the TCE levels were unsafe. The EPA has )ermits from the Bay Area Air �ualltY Management District to operate the treatment facil- ities, and further analysis will a pe done using the EPA's new, more stringent toxicity stan- d rcis for TCE, Lee acid. There are four TCE cleanup sites in Mountain View. The Navy operates td: Moffett Field which inin tary housing and the NASA Re- eearch Park. A handful of high-tech companies that once operated manufacturing — Elm WK SA17" a NE was tatD s�II SAWU NO of AM NAo DI His ME( plants in the Middlefield-Ellie- Whieman site — including in- tel, Fairchild Semiconductor an R�ytheon — are responsi- f� for the cleanup at that location. GTE Govern- ment Sy stems is a nother site Cen ral , pre aaasww��y. Road 237. The axaalleat locat, on is the Jasco Chemical cleanp its, two acres near villa Street and Escuela Avenue. has bbeeen April 2000, the hater of seven h hula >Y omes do the testing a cl GTE site, where new housing develo is have been c ovet• the past few The EPA last ar detected cause they are sit- uated above a nor No .Lent o O the EPA in- d19aN100o stalled a ventua- tion for by P� the home to route contamiaat- ne at t ht houtin the soil be For more information, call David Cooper, community involvement coordinator for the US Bnv&mmental Protection e il4:(4 )9M,W7or at cooPerdaviah@gm,gov, or click On wwwepagov /region09. ContactJoshunL. Kwan at G88 -7b80. 1klvattL MWcury com or (650) "That absolutely baffles me. Pd like to see it done next week "