MAFB cooks the books
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MacDill AFB is another "OUT of CONTROL" MIlitary Base violating their own AICUZ and NEPA responsibilities and this Fraud harms the public . MacDill Violates the Constitution they took an oath to defend and harm the citizens they claim to protect.

Air Installation Compatible Use Zone (AICUZ) Information
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The purpose of the AICUZ (Air Installation Compatible Use Zone) Program is to protect the health, safety and welfare from noise and hazards through compatible development in the airport environment. The program was instituted by the Department of Defense to address the problem of land development surrounding military air installations. It provides for the development and implementation of a plan to determine those land areas for which development should be significantly influenced by the operation of the airfield. These land areas are then designated as the AICUZ for that installation.

To provide for compatible development, the Navy acquired easements and fee simple ownership on certain lands in the noise and accident potential zones around NAS Oceana. While the specific terms of each easement varies, they generally prohibit all residential and people-intensive commercial development. In addition, the permitted industrial development cannot result in a high concentration of people. The 2003 adopted Comprehensive Plan's Technical Report states that the AICUZ Program for NAS Oceana has encumbered approximately 4,200 acres, of which approximately 3,600 acres are currently undeveloped. Land within the AICUZ program has been classified according to its potential impact from noise and accident potential.

MotherJones top ten toxic companies 1993
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Dupont
The largest chemical company in the United States has given the world nylon, Teflon, Freon, and leaded gasoline (which it still makes for markets overseas); is the country's number-one emitter of toxins, releasing poisons at the rate of just under a million pounds a day, according to the EPA's 1989 data; is the world's largest producer of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (CFCS); and leads all other companies in domestic deep-well injection of toxic wastes (254.9 million pounds in 1989). Recently, Du Pont was forced to pay $1.4 million in damages for concealing records showing that six employees had developed lung damage from asbestos exposure. Its operation of the government's Savannah River nuclear-weapons complex (1950-1989) polluted water sources for the area and has been connected to elevated levels of leukemia, lung cancer, and other diseases. The company's consumer products include Stainmaster carpets, Dacron, and Lycra.

Rockwell
The EPA has identified 166 separate hazardous-waste dumps at Rock- well's Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons facility outside Denver, including "Hillside 88l," thought to be the worst-polluted spot in the country and a threat to local drinking water. In 1992, Rockwell paid $18.5 million in fines for environmental violations (including five felonies) at Rocky Flats. Rockwell also is the second-largest emitter of airborne toxins in the heavily polluted Los Angeles Basin; it has admitted to ten accidental releases of radioactive materials there over the past twenty years, and has been identified by the state authorities as possibly responsible for high rates of bladder cancer.

General Motors
General Motors releases three times as much toxic pollution as its main U.S. competitor, Ford Motor Co.; paid the most in OSHA penalties of any U.S. company between 1977 and 1990; has been linked with 200 Superfund sites, including a landfill in New York that will take an estimated $100 million to clean up; and is the top producer of ozone- depleting chemicals in California. A GM plant in Saginaw, Michigan, pumped toxic material into the environment at the rate of more than a thousand pounds an hour in 1989.

General Electric
Even as General Electric was giving failing actor Ronald Reagan his big break as host of a 1950s TV series, it was neglecting to warn residents near its Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State about its regular releases of radioactive substances into the environment. GE plants also discharged 500,000 pounds of PCBs into the Hudson River over a thirty-year period. One of the three major manufacturers of nuclear-power plants, GE has been sued by several utility companies for supplying them with deficient nuclear- containment vessels. GE designed Mexico's only nuclear-power plant, which has dumped radioactive water into the Gulf of Mexico. GE markets appliances and lightbulbs.

Georgia Pacific
According to 1991 EPA data, Georgia Pacific has the worst air-permit compliance record in the forest-products industry, and has pulp and paper mills that were cited as out of compliance for a cumulative sixty-one quarters (fifteen-plus years!). It also has plants emitting dangerously high amounts of cancer-causing chloroform into the air of at least four states. Recently, G-P was fined $5 million for tax evasion in a scheme that would have allegedly damaged a wetlands area, and lost two court decisions concerning its release of the fiendishly toxic pollutant dioxin. As the largest U.S. importer of tropical timber, Georgia Pacific prompted the Rainforest Action Network to call for a boycott of its Coronet and Angel Soft brand paper products.

Cargill
Although Cargill is one of the world's largest grain traders, meat packers, flour millers, and seed companies, and also runs steel mills, this $49 billion company is able to operate in great secrecy because it is privately held. Nonetheless, Cargill has been cited for over 2,000 OSHA violations since 1987 spilled 40,000 gallons of toxic phosphoric solution into the Alafia River in Florida in 1988, causing a massive fish kill; since 1991 has had the worst air compliance record of any company in its industry: and scored second-lowest among its competitors on CEP's Greendex, which measures the environmental soundness of PAC contributions. It is also one of the top two emitters of toxics in its industry according to the EPA. In 1991, then-governor Bill Clinton criticized the company for releasing into Arkansas rivers animal waste comparable to the output of 21 million people, or about ten times the state's population. Cargill products include Honeysuckle White and Riverside turkeys, Excel pork and beef, and Fresh Cargo and Nautica shrimp.

Maxxam
Since acquiring the former Pacific Lumber Company in 1985, Maxxam has held the future of the Northwest's old-growth forests in its hands. The prospects are not good. In order to pay off the junk bonds used to finance the Pacific Lumber deal and other takeovers, Maxxam has been overharvesting virgin redwood forests. Furthermore, Maxxam has been linked to 19 Superfund sites; was cited for eight "willful" violations of OSHA violations in 1988; and scored poorly on CEP's Greendex. A Washington State facility has been cited repeatedly by the state for water- and air-pollution violations; its subsidiary Kaiser Aluminum (also taken over with junk bonds) released over 4.5 million pounds of toxic chemicals in 1989.

USX
Formerly United States Steel Corporation, USX operates a notorious steelworks in Gary, Indiana, which has been fined $34 million in penalties and cleanup costs for dumping toxin-laden wastewater, and $1.6 million more for violating the Clean Air Act. USX has also been repeatedly cited for violating air standards for toxic emissions in Pennsylvania at its Fairless and its Clairton works. Additionally, USX's Marathon subsidiary was responsible for a hydrofluoric-acid leak that led to the evacuation of 4,000 people in Texas City in 1987. USX owns Marathon and Speedway gas stations in the Midwest and Southeast.

Exxon
CEP's judges could not settle on an oil company because the entire industry had such an "egregious track record," reported CEP's Alice Tepper Marlin. But we have chosen here to list Exxon, the nation's largest energy company, which was responsible for one of the worst ecological disasters in history - the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 11.2 million gallons off Alaska in 1989. Exxon has been linked to 22 Superfund sites; three of its chemical plants alone emitted over 7.5 million pounds of toxics in 1988; and its mining subsidiary has one of the worst safety records in the country.

Ciba-Geigy
Due to a disturbing double standard whereby foreign-based multinational companies are not obliged to disclose as much information about their environmental impacts overseas as they do about their records in the U.S., CEP judges called for an international requirement that all corporations worldwide divulge comparable, detailed, and accurate environmental data wherever they operate, so that they may be properly evaluated in the future. We have chosen to list Ciba-Geigy, Ltd., a Swiss-based agrochemical and drug multinational, to represent this global problem. In behavior shockingby any standard, Ciba-Geigy tested herbicides on human subjects in the 1970s in Egypt and India. (Due to the lack ofavailable data, no grades can be given)