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Article: NEW JERSEY MEMBERS ISSUE LETTER TO EPA, ARMY CORPS REQUESTING EXPLANATION OF HOW DEBRIS REACHED BEACHES
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 6, 2007
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The office of Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg, D-N.J., issued the following news release:
Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) today issued a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers, the federal agencies responsible for protecting the New Jersey coastline, to determine what went wrong this past Labor Day weekend when trash and other debris washed ashore in Ocean County and forced several beaches to close. Several beaches along the Jersey Shore were closed during part of the busy holiday weekend because of the trash that washed ashore. The source of the waste - which beachgoers said included ...