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9/24/2009 10:30:00 AM

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New CAG is formed

Ann E. Wibbenmeyer
Herald Staff Writer

Sarah Walen from the Meridian Institute has been contracted to facilitate the formation of a Community Advisory Group, which will work on the remedy for Operable Unit 6 of the California Gulch Superfund Site.

In existence already is a commissioner-appointed citizens' advisory group, which has been working on Superfund issues within Lake County for the past four years.

According to Jennifer Lane, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Lake County Commissioner Mike Bordogna and Leadville Mayor Bud Elliott, the new CAG will be a completely different group than the existing group.

Members of the existing citizens' group are welcome to join the CAG, said Lane.

Bordogna said that the two groups could work on parallel tracks.

The difference, he said, is that the citizens' group was appointed by the previous board of commissioners to advise the commissioners.

This CAG would be set up under EPA guidelines, use EPA funds and advise the EPA.

EPA is funding the facilitator, buying advertising for the meetings and paying for the rent of meeting space.

Walen was one of four facilitators interviewed for the job. Bordogna, Elliott, Carol Hill and Bill Klauber, with the citizens' advisory group, conducted the interviews.

She will begin the process of forming a CAG by identifying individuals to be invited to the group. The goal is to cast a wider net to involve more diverse interests from the community.

Members of the existing citizens' group are cynical about the success of recruiting volunteers, as past experience has shown them that Leadville is burned out on EPA meetings, one group member said.

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