BURBANK MIGHT HIRE EXPERT TO MONITOR LOCKHEED PLANT.Byline: Lee Condon Daily News Staff Writer The Burbank City Council will consider hiring an independent consultant tonight to monitor asbestos removal at the former Lockheed B-6 plant and to review the company's soil cleanup at the site. ``We want to make sure the contractors are doing what they're supposed to do. We do know there is a lot of dust and debris being generated from that site,'' said Burbank Councilman Ted McConkey, who introduced the motion to provide up to $50,000 for the independent consultant. A Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. spokeswoman, Maureen Curow, said the company and its contractor, Tetra Tech of Pasadena, are certain no asbestos will escape into the air, because the buildings are being sealed during the demolition. Lockheed Martin is trying to sell the B-6 site and is fighting the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority's attempt to take the 130-acre property by eminent domain eminent domain, the right of a government to force the owner of private property sell it if it is needed for a public use. The right is based on the doctrine that a sovereign state has dominion over all lands and buildings within its borders, which has its origins in in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Superior Court. The authority wants to use the land to build an expanded airport terminal. The company is in the process of demolishing 30 buildings on the site, which is bounded by San Fernando Road San Fernando Road is a major street in the city and county of Los Angeles. It starts off in Castaic as The Old Road, passing through Santa Clarita and the Newhall Pass, where upon its intersection with Sierra Highway near the junction of the Golden State (I-5) and the on the north, Hollywood Way on the east and Burbank Airport on the south and west. Tetra Tech has razed raze also rase tr.v. razed also rased, raz·ing also ras·ing, raz·es also ras·es 1. To level to the ground; demolish. See Synonyms at ruin. 2. To scrape or shave off. 3. eight of the buildings since November, officials said. Residents have been particularly concerned about the demolition recently, because of high winds that hit the Burbank area in the past week, McConkey said. Lockheed shut down its operations at B-6 in the early 1990s as part of its relocation RELOCATION, Scotch law, contracts. To let again to renew a lease, is called a relocation. 2. When a tenant holds over after the expiration of his lease, with the consent of his landlord, this will amount to a relocation. out of the Burbank area. CAPTION(S): map Map: Lockheed B-6 plant |
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