Letter to Charles F. Sams III, Director National Park Service, Paul J. Wiedefeld, General Manager and CEO Washington, Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, and Lieutenant General Scott A. Spellmon, Chief of Engineers and Commanding General U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Norton Requests Meeting to Discuss Unexploded Ordnance Found on Fort Totten Trail

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Dear Director Sams, Lieutenant General Spellmon and General Manager Wiedefeld:

I write to request a meeting next week with the appropriate officials from the National Park Service, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to discuss the discovery of an unexploded ordnance on the Fort Totten Trail in the District of Columbia and the scope of the investigation of the trail and surrounding areas for ordnance and soil and groundwater contamination. It appears the ordnance may be linked to the Spring Valley Formerly Used Defense Site (FUDS).

I have been working to clean up the Spring Valley FUDS since ordnance were first discovered there, in 1993. I am committed to ensuring that residents across the District of Columbia are safe from ordnance, chemical weapons and soil and groundwater contamination.

My office will contact your offices to schedule the meeting.

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