Urges the United States Congress to transfer authority for the remediation of the West Lake Landfill radioactive wastes from the EPA to the Corps of Engineers' Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 1

Unofficial

WHEREAS, seventy years ago the United States government hired St. Louis based company

Mallinckrodt Chemical Works to purify uranium for use in nuclear weapons during wartimes; and

WHEREAS, from 1946 until 1957, Mallinckrodt Chemical Works transported and dumped the

radioactive chemical waste produced from the uranium purification process at Coldwater Creek near the St.

Louis airport; and

WHEREAS, some of the radioactive chemical wastes were later trucked from Coldwater Creek to

Latty Avenue in Hazelwood for drying and shipping to Colorado for reprocessing; and

WHEREAS, in 1973, some of the radioactive chemical wastes located on Latty Avenue were