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  • Acevedo: Vieques cleanup not yet a priority

    12/26/2002 6:06:52 AM PST · by 4Freedom · 4 replies · 395+ views
    The San Juan Star | December 26, 2002 | BY ROBERT FRIEDMAN
    The cleanup of Vieques will not be a New Year priority here for the Calderon administration, at least not until after May 1, when the Navy is supposed to end its exercises on the small island, Resident Commissioner Anibal Acevedo Vila has indicated. Congressional action on Vieques is now "closed" - as far as the Navy exiting the island is concerned, said the resident commissioner. He did not foresee trying to rally help for the cleanup in Congress for many months, if at all. "After May, we will have to sit down with federal agencies to talk about a cleanup,"...