Feds to resume ship-scrapping

From: Oakland Tribune | Date: July 6, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Despite concerns of state pollution regulators, the U.S. Maritime Administration will soon resume moving toxic-laden ships out of Suisun Bay for scrapping after using a new system to capture materials removed from the vessels' hulls, the agency's head announced Thursday.

U.S. Maritime Administrator Sean T. Connaughton, in a letter to the Bay Area's top water-pollution regulator, said he is unilaterally lifting the moratorium he imposed on ship removal andthat the hulls would be cleaned in Alameda before they are towed to Texas for dismantling.

But Bruce Wolfe, executive officer of the San ...

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