In reply to recastingthesmelter statements that they are being transparent

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5/2024

"The cleanup trustee and its attorney state that they have not hidden anything. Yet, they admitted that in reviewing all asarco invoices that they left out the invoices listed in the now public "1998 73-page u.s.

doj epa asarco confidential for settlement purposes only document " (withheld from public until 2006). The trustee and its attorney always refer to chemicals of concern, which do NOT include the illegal toxic wastes addressed in the 1998 document (above).  These invoices and the evidence they contain remain secret to this day. Rep Reyes told the el paso times (online edition) that asarco paid millions on the condition that the 1998 73-page us doj epa asarco confidential for settlement purposes only document would never see the light of day.  The clean up trustee and its attorney continue to ignore the contents of this" 1998 73-page us doj epa asarco confidential for settlement purposes only document" when answering ALL questions regarding the el paso asarco site. Moreover they insinuate that nothing toxic or illegal happened. BTW the epa publicly posted the beta radiation levels in el paso texas from beginning and end of 1998, declaring that these were the highest beta radiation levels in the usa that year, including oak ridge tn and hanford wa. It is mind boggling that the clean up trust denies this, when it was publicly posted information, and data from the very same year that the epa and us doj made the "1998 73-page us doj epa asarco confidential for settlement purposes only document" agreement to hide what asarco had been doing.  The community needs to know ,in all historical records, that these (secret)toxins would persist for many generations, many will offgas even thru asphalt (per a utep geologist) so that paving over site will not make it safe. People in community deserve the right to know, to have access to the still secret invoices (found in the 1998 73-page us doj epa asarco confidential for settlement purposes only document) so they may make best choices for their families.  "

About 2007 article claiming "feds-find-asarco-clean-on-hazmat-charges" 🤣 "

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https://www.elpasoinc.com/news/feds-find-asarco-clean-on-hazmat-charges/article_802ee13f-b8b7-5108-884c-36a51327977f.html

This article was written in 2007 shortly after Rep. Reyes asked the GAO to generally investigate military handling of wastes, with one example from asarco.  The GAO investigation was narrow and did not look at all the waste invoices (if any) listed in the "73 page confidential for settlement purposes only 1998 us doj epa asarco document".  Rep. Reyes was interviewed by the el paso times at that time and was quoted online as saying that "asarco paid millions of dollars on the condition that the [   "73 page confidential for settlement purposes only 1998 us doj epa asarco document"  ] would never see the light of day".  Asarco subsidiary encycle at corpus c risti (that railed materials to el paso and east helena mt) handled wastes from many other places than rocky flats (but the only example studied by GAO!).   This ep inc author trashes the "73 page confidential for settlement purposes only 1998 us doj epa asarco document". mcmurray uncovered in 2006 as being just "paperwork errors".  That is hilarious since the 1998 report lists pages of ***invoice numbers*** in the back of report, that neither ep inc or any other news source has published or investigated (except confidentially thru the us doj). We know the Toole UT nerve gas quench water came here. That hafnium containing materials (ie nuclear control rod material) also appears in higher dust concentrations the closer to asarco el paso stacks you get.  The epa itself published in 1998 that el paso tx had highest beta radiation levels in usa- higher than oakridge TN and Hanford WA!!  Yet this article written in 2007 choose to slant its reporting, trash the  "73 page confidential for settlement purposes only 1998 us doj epa asarco document". , and then ep inc author tried to reassure el paso that nothing had happened except clerical errors. Asarco could have written that news item, it was so positive.  Google (with quotes) "asarco secret document" and use the resulting internal search engine for more documentation. 

Now, somehow, when you try to search google in general for words asarco secret document (that used to pull up this documentation) this 2007 article pops up near the top of the SEO search engine optimization🤣. 

Now you have to put QUOTES around the phrase ' "asarco secret document" ' to find what you used to get google to pull up, for years.  Would like to add that Rep.Reyes' GAO investigation was NOT just an investigation of asarco, but just looked at several examples of how military handled toxic wastes.  The rocky flats example was one that asarco itself revealed at the 10/2006  international press conference.

Note: press conf. was one I organized at base of Asarco (press conf was backed by the kids's/mr moore esq. Sunland park environmental group & my Epgtlo group that began meeting when sen shapleigh's get the lead out group stopped gathering for long time) to cover the release of the  formerly secret 1998 73-page document

note: the invoices in "73 page confidential for settlement purposes only 1998 us doj epa asarco document".  STILL remain confidential...no news agency or clean up trustee EVER went after those. 

Note:  that former sen Shapleigh's publication covering asarco does not refer to the entire 73 page version of the asarco secret document, but truncated it, so I always refer to its page count.