Nearly 4,000 acres of the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons production site in Colorado was transfered to to the Department of the Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for use as a national wildlife refuge.
After more than a decade of environmental cleanup work, the transfer by the Department of Energy creates the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, 16 miles northwest of Denver, and marks completion of the regulatory milestones to transform a formerly contaminated site into an environmental asset.
“The Department of Energy’s environmental cleanup of the Rocky Flats weapons production reservation exemplifies the Bush Administration’s commitment to turn contaminated sites into public assets for future generations,” Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management James Rispoli said. “We are proud to transfer this space to the Department of Interior and we will continue with plans to complete environmental cleanup work at five more sites across the country by 2009.”
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