[Text Fwd from F. Cordaro] Report blasts GSA over Bannister complex 캔자스 배니스터 단지 환경 오염 심각, 보고서는 일반 업무 행정부의 과실 드러냄

* Image source: Kansas City.com

Michael Jones, a 28-year-employee of GSA, looks at a map on groundwater contaminant plumes at the Bannister Federal Complex in Kansas City on Monday, Nov. 11, during an question and answer meeting about health issues at the complex. An inspector generalÕs investigation has found that a federal agency misled its employees, environmental regulators and the public regarding toxic contamination at the General Services Administration on Bannister Road. Photo By: ALLISON LONG/The Kansas City Star 110810

* Text informed from Frank Cordaro on Nov. 8, 2010

Kansas City Star newspaper
Report blasts GSA over Bannister complex
By KAREN DILLON

Federal employees installed wells to monitor pollution at the Bannister complex but seldom if ever checked them. They said they performed annual environmental tests but there’s no evidence they ever did. And they provided misleading information to the public about
pollution on the site.

Those were among the findings in a scathing report released Monday by the inspector general for the General Services Administration, and they brought an immediate response from Missouri’s congressional delegation.

“The people who have worked at Bannister have a right to be angry,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat. “This (inspector general’s) report shows serious misjudgment on the part of the federal government.”

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Kansas City Democrat, said the report showed GSA had mismanaged its environmental obligations. “All of those faults are completely and utterly unacceptable,” Cleaver said.

The long-awaited report said that GSA employees at Bannister currently are not in any danger from widespread pollution on the site. But that doesn’t mean that employees have been safe in years before 2010, the report said.

Without more study, the report said, “there is insufficient evidence to conclude that occupants at the complex were not exposed to hazardous toxins.”

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* The inspector general’s report on health and safety conditions at the Bannister Federal Complex: Download PDF file

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See also

KC Star news paper
The Star’s editorial: RX for losing public trust: Fudge the facts
Posted on Mon, Nov. 08, 2010
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