When Didimoi began its cleanup, it decided to go beyond both federal and state standards for air pollutants.
The group next moves to Main Street, where it will continue its cleanup campaign for the next two months.
The handover of land and its cleanup, how will it be done?" In April, as part of the Clinton accord, the Navy handed over more than 8,000 acres on the western end of Vieques, which it had used as a munitions storage depot.
In 2003, the same year the Navy withdraws its cleanup operation from Kahoolawe, it will stop firing on Vieques.
The Forest Service had no authority to extend its cleanup to private holdings; it was negotiating with the Environmental Protection Agency, which had the authority to clean up private lands and showed a willingness to initiate a cleanup at the Globe and Live Yankee mines when the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks diverted the E.P.A.'s attention and resources, Mr. Fitzgerald said.
(The company says it has spent $160 million on research and its cleanup so far, but officials decline to be more specific).
EPA Regional Administrator Judith Enck, who is overseeing the project, declared it a success and allowed GE to dismantle its cleanup operation even before the agency commenced a mandated review of its effectiveness.
The company has also agreed not to sell or trade to other companies the "pollution credits" it earns by cutting its own emissions, so that its cleanup will not lead to other companies' gaining legal permission to pollute more.
Three years ago, it received a stewardship award from the South Shore Estuary Reserve for its cleanup work.
BP said Wednesday that it "remained committed to the U.S. as a whole" and its cleanup efforts were "making some progress".
BP Says Workers May Talk to News Media BP said it had started handing out cards to all 40,000 of its cleanup workers in the gulf region that say that they should "feel free to talk" to the news media.
