Ventura County Public Health Officer Dr. Robert Levin spoke at a hearing of the state Board of Environmental Safety in Sacramento last week on the subject of the Santa Susana Field Lab, a rocket- and nuclear-testing site near Simi Valley. ... Levin added his official voice to many county residents and investigative and environmental organizations who charge that legal maneuvers and foot-dragging on the part of federal contractor Boeing, now overseeing the SSFL site, and the Department of Toxic Substances Control — the state agency regulating the cleanup — are failing to protect Simi Valley and Ventura County residents from decades of dangerous contamination at the 2,900-acre site.

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