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Excerpt from Environmental Issues and Military Base Closings: Hearings Before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, May 27, 1993, December 7, 1993 Alameda, California
In addition, we will examine whether the Department can, or should, consider the proposed reuse of land in determining the degree to which it must be cleaned up. This is a very complicated question and one which bears directly on the broader issues being discussed in the Superfund reauthorization.
There is another way to put closing military bases to productive use. These bases provide a good opportunity to test new environmental cleanup technologies. Last week this committee held a hearing on the environmental technology bill I, mean ing the Chairman, and a number of his colleagues introduced. That bill establishes in part a program for the testing of new cleanup technology at closed military bases and other facilities.
Senator boxer. That is the statement of Chairman Baucus. I would ask now if Senator Metzenbaum has a statement.
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