Waxman Document 80
This document is also available on Congressman Waxman’s website here.
P. 11/76:
“If significant amounts of medical debris were encountered, all activity in that areas would be suspended and a Health and Safety Plan (HSP) would be prepared. The HSP would delineate waste handling procedures, disposition and personel protection. Because medical debris was encountered during grading operations, a HSP was prepared (Shirtz, 2000).”
This is significant because, as reported in “Nuke ‘Em High,” nothing of the sort seemed to have been done when construction workers for Brentwood School unearthed ‘significant amounts of medical debris’ in the construction of the “lower bench” football field:
This waste, under what was to become the school’s “lower bench” athletic fields, was so vast that in the late 1990s work was halted on the first part of the project, installing a 2,500-foot storm drain system, according to a January 2000 environmental site assessment conducted by Santa Ana-based URS Greiner Woodward Clyde. “The syringes were often in plastic bags,” the report said. “The foreman indicated that there was so much unsuitable material (refuse) that the project was temporarily shut down until directed by a federal official (name unknown) not to excavate further and continue with a modified installation plan. The modified plan provided for the use of 3 to 4 feet of crushed asphalt to be placed over those areas with remaining unsuitable material to support the drain pipe.”
P. 22/76:
The following, with its statement that “(A)ll hypodermic needles, sharps or other medical debris encountered during grading operations were removed” also appears contradictory January 2000 URS report:
