4/12/06 to Steve Johnson, US EPA

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April 12, 2006

Via Facsimile- (202) 501-1450

Administrator Steve Johnson U.S. EPA

Room 3000, Anal Rios Building

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460

Dear Administrator Johnson,

The American Friends Service Committee (AlFSC) is a Quaker-relation social action organization and 1947 Nobel Peace Prize recipient; and the Project On Government Oversight (‘POGO) is an independent nonprofit that investigates and exposes corruption and other misconduct in order to achieve a more accountable federal government. Our organizations have worked with the grassroots citizens group Concerned Citizens of Lake Township (CCLT) on the Industrial Excess Landfill (TEL) Superfund site in Uniontown, OH, for over ten years. We have been seeking the truth about what is buried at the landfill and a safe and permanent clean-up of the site. We have recently become concerned that the process used to test for man-made radiation at this site is being used as a model for testing at other similar SupErfund sites. We are concerned because scientific experts from the EPA, Department of Energy (DOE), Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the private sector have found significant inadequacies and inherent biases in the Method used to test at IEL.

2/25/06 to Steve Johnson, US EPA

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Sent Via Fax  2/5/06

Steve Johnson – US EPA Administraton

US EPA Headquarters
Washington D.C.

Dear Administrator Johnson:

In the letter we wrote to you dated 10/13/05, we asked that you investigate the misuse of an SAB panel and its report issued at our Superfund Site in 1993/94 , that is believed to have been used to subvert and undermine the scientific concerns of US EPA’s research department.

Indeed, instead of conducting the investigation envisioned by Thomas Grumbly (who had made this recommendation to former Admininstrator Reilly) to learn what went on between Region 5 and two commerical labs who had found man-made radiation at our site and the use of a non-standard method forced upon the second lab, the focus was switched to that of using IEL generically as the example for the rest of the nation – whether the US EPA Finished Drinking Water 900 Method for Gross Alpha/Beta was appropriate for not only Uniontown but any other Superfund Site suspected of containing radiation.