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The 最新杏吧原创 Democrat said the review by the Government Accountability Office resulted from a letter she and U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-New York, sent GAO last July.

The letter requested an evaluation of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers鈥� Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). The letter said the program was created in 1974 to identify and clean sites 鈥渃ontaminated by atomic energy activities.鈥�

The letter said a disparity between need and funding is 鈥渁n urgent, critical threat to the communities poisoned by FUSRAP sites every single day.

鈥淚n Representative Cori Bush鈥檚 最新杏吧原创 district, radioactive waste discarded from the manufacture of atomic bombs for the Manhattan Project still threatens residents around Coldwater Creek, which regularly floods gardens, backyards, and public school playgrounds with potentially radioactive water,鈥� the letter said.

鈥淲hen I lived in the vicinity of the Creek, the basement of my house would regularly flood with potentially radioactive water,鈥� Bush said Thursday. 鈥淢y son鈥檚 room was in that basement. Black families in North County have been unsafe and unhealthy for too long because of toxic water. The pace and thoroughness of cleanup at Coldwater Creek remains totally unacceptable.鈥�

Her office said the GAO would focus its review on pinpointing 鈥渞eported environmental liabilities associated with FUSRAP sites,鈥� identifying 鈥渄emographic characteristics鈥� around such sites, evaluating the Department of Defense鈥檚 management of the program, and evaluating how the government warns people of sites that are not yet remediated.

Posted at 3 p.m. Thursday, June 16.聽