Does this have to do with elimination of the FREON "bath" replaced with the WATER "bath?" I asked why NASA didn't ask for a waiver to continue with FREON solution since it left no residue. I'm not too swift on this subject, but know that we spent big $$'s to change the facility to please Clinton's EPA mandates. Again, I don't understand why we couldn't get waivers.
As I recall, we rebuilt our nuclear warheads so they would be more "environmentally friendly" (different chemical for cooling). It appears to have been exceptionally difficult to get a waiver.
Goldin had his (rather large) nose so far up bubba's gluteal fold that it would have broken off had clinton stopped quickly.
At the John Glenn launch, for instance, I was there when the little man actually said, "President clinton has been the biggest supporter of the US space program of any president in history." At that point, I turned my headset volume to the max to drown out his obsequious drivel.
Goldin never asked for a waiver for that or for any of the other idiotic things we had to go through at KSC, simply because he placed his own miserable career ahead of the safety of the astronauts.
Did you know that we had to treat rainwater that had touched galvanized steel gratings as "hazardous waste"? The taxpayers paid $2 per gallon to haul millions of gallons of sump water to hazardous waste sites.