ACQUISITION WON'T IMPEDE PROBE, CLEANUP.Byline: Steven J. Gorman Daily News Staff Writer A continuing criminal investigation of employees at Rockwell International Rockwell International was the ultimate incarnation of a series of companies under the sphere of influence of Willard Rockwell, who had made his fortune after the invention and successful launch of a new bearing system for truck axles in 1919. Corp.'s Rocketdyne Division and environmental cleanup The process of removing solid, liquid, and hazardous wastes, except for unexploded ordnance, resulting from the joint operation of US forces to a condition that approaches the one existing prior to operation as determined by the environmental baseline survey, if one was conducted. of its field laboratory west of Chatsworth will proceed without disruption under new ownership of the company, federal and state officials said Thursday. Plans by Boeing Co. to purchase Rocketdyne and other Rockwell aerospace and defense businesses will have no effect on the federal investigation of Rockwell employees in connection with a 1994 explosion that killed two physicists at the lab, said Assistant U.S. Attorney William Carter For other persons named William Carter, see William Carter (disambiguation). William Carter (c. 1548 - 11 January 1584) was a Roman Catholic English printer and martyr. Biography William was born in London, 1548; suffered for treason at Tyburn on 11 January, 1584. . ``The facts don't change,'' Carter said. ``The investigation is ongoing, and I don't see this acquisition or sale would impact what we're doing.'' In April, Rockwell pleaded guilty to criminal charges of illegally storing and disposing of hazardous waste Hazardous waste Any solid, liquid, or gaseous waste materials that, if improperly managed or disposed of, may pose substantial hazards to human health and the environment. Every industrial country in the world has had problems with managing hazardous wastes. and agreed to pay a $6.5 million fine in connection with the 1994 blast at Rocketdyne's Santa Susana Santa Susana can refer to several places:
As part of the plea agreement, the company admitted that the two scientists killed in the blast had been conducting bogus tests with explosives with the real objective of simply getting rid of the wastes by burning them up. But federal prosecutors said then that no immunity was granted to individuals and that the FBI and Defense Department would continue to investigate the incident to determine whether any individual company employees would be criminally charged. Likewise, officials at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and and state Department of Toxic Substances Control said cleanup of radioactive and chemical contamination at the 2,600-acre site in the Simi Hills west of Chatsworth would continue on schedule. The EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. is overseeing a $55 million cleanup contamination left from four decades of nuclear research at the Santa Susana facility under Department of Energy contracts. ``The plans are all in place and it's not going to affect the cleanup of the site, and the ongoing plan for it,'' said EPA spokeswoman Lois Grunwald. |
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