DATE: August 20, 2007 12:59:32 PM EDT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Public Information Assist Team
U.S. Coast Guard
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Press Release

Date: Aug. 20, 2007

Contact: Mark MacIntyre
(206) 553-7302


PACIFIC, ATLANTIC STRIKE TEAMS ASSIST EPA
AT FORMER MERCURY MINE SITE

Members of the Pacific and Atlantic Strike Team deployed Sunday to assist the Environmental Protection Agency at a former mercury mine in Cottage Grove, Ore.

The team members will provide federal on-scene presence, air monitoring, site safety, communications and cost documentation support.

For more information about the EPA's response, please contact Mark MacIntyre at (206) 553-7302.

For more information about the former mine, please visit www.epaosc.net/site_profile.asp?site_id=1878

For more information about the Coast Guard's strike teams, please contact the Public Information Assist Team at (252) 331-6000.

For online information about the Pacific Strike Team, please visit https://www.piersystem.com/go/page/771/15053/

For online information about the Atlantic Strike Team, please visit https://www.piersystem.com/go/page/771/15051/

 

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