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Monday, Feb. 25, is the final day of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) public comment session on the cleanup of Santa Susana Field Laboratory in California. Citizens are encouraged to provide comments on ways to remove the low-level radioactive waste left by the lab’s former nuclear research station.

Critics say the DOE is using the public comment in place of a complete environmental survey. DOE officials deny that accusation.

The controversial site is located in the hills between the cities of Chatsworth and Simi Valley. For approximately five decades, rocket fuel and nuclear research was conducted at the Rocketdyne site that was later acquired by Boeing when it purchased the property where the lab sat.

During past public discussions on the cleanup, residents of Simi Valley and other nearby cities criticized the DOE’s clean-up plan saying it is inadequate. They object to the DOE’s proposal to leave 98 percent of the contaminated soil on-site. Boeing has not specified how the land will be used, but housing is not ruled out.

Neighbors want a much more intensive cleanup that would require 27 truckloads of waste to be removed from the site daily for eight years. Phil Rutherford, Boeing’s manager of radiation safety at the Rocketdyne facility, said the DOE plan would protect human health, protect the environment and spare neighborhoods the increased traffic of a more intensive cleanup.