VICTORY IN PENSACOLA!!!!!!!

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EPA REGION 4 ADMINISTRATOR ISSUES STATEMENT ANNOUNCING RELOCATION OF 
PENSACOLA'S ESCAMBIA COMMUNITY

October 3, 1996

The following is a statement released today by US EPA Region 4 
Administrator John H. Hankinson, Jr., regarding the Escambia relocation:

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has decided to relocate all of 
the residents living around the Escambia Treating Company Superfund site 
in Pensacola, FL.  This decision is based on the best scientific 
information available about the community's unique environmental, health, 
and safety factors.  It is also based on the community's concerns, as 
well as our goal to protect the neighborhood's health, welfare, and 
well-being.

In coming weeks, we will be making specific arrangements to move 
residents in the Rosewood Terrace, Oak Park, and Goulding subdivision 
communities, and working with the US Dept. of Housing and Urban 
Development to make similar arrangements for residents of the Escambia 
Arms apartment complex.  We will purchase their homes or move apartment 
residents to alternate housing. After we are certain that all the 
residents have moved out of the area, some or all of the current 
structures will be demolished, the contaminated soils will be cleaned up, 
and eventually the land will be available for industrial development, 
providing jobs for the community.

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