Public Comments

June 10, 2025 – CBG Comments on NASA's Phase 1 Groundwater CMS & DTSC's Statement of Basis

March 30, 2025 – CBG Comments on DTSC's Multiple Lines of Evidence Proposal

March 27, 2025 – Comments by CBG and NRDC on DOE's Proposed Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

August 8, 2022 – CBG's Critiques of CalEPA–Boeing Deal:

Comments on Proposed MOU Between Boeing and the LA Water Board Regarding the Contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory

Appendix A: Secret Negotiations Between CalEPA & Boeing to Breach Cleanup Obligations for the Santa Susana Field Laboratory

Appendix B: Summary Critique of Deal With Boeing to Weaken SSFL Cleanup Requirements

Appendix C: Years of Inaction and Broken Promises in Meeting Cleanup Obligations Result in Imminent Endangerment of the Public and Environment

Spreadsheet Comparisons

January 8, 2020 - Comments by CBG, PSR-LA, and Natural Resources Defense Council on NASA's Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Soil Cleanup Activities at Santa Susana Field Laboratory.

September 03, 2018 - Comments by the Committee to Bridge the Gap, Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los Angeles and Southern California Federation of Scientists on the California State Land Commission's Draft Environmental Impact Report for Decommissioning the San Onofre Nuclear Plant

December 7, 2017 – Comments by CBG, City of Los Angeles, and Natural Resources Defense Council on DTSC's Draft Program Environmental Impact Report and Draft Program Management Plan

December 14, 2017 – Supplemental Detailed Comments by CBG and Natural Resources Defense Council on DTSC's Draft Program Environmental Impact Report

August 7, 2014 – “Overview of Alternative Transportation Options for Santa Susana Field Laboratory Cleanup," report by the SSFL Transportation Options Task Force

November 19, 2025 – Statement on the Navy’s Airborne Plutonium-239 Detection at Hunters Point

May 7, 2024 – Critique of the Navy's Draft Fifth Five-Year Review

Appendix to the Critique of the Navy's Draft Fifth Five-Year Review

November 10, 2019 – Critique of the Navy’s Protectiveness Review of its HPNS Building Cleanup Standards

September 8, 2019 – Critique of the Navy’s Protectiveness Review of its HPNS Soil Cleanup Standards

September 8, 2019 – Critique of the Navy’s Draft Five Year Review

August 15, 2018 – Critique of the Work Plan for Retesting of Parcel G Hunters Point Naval Shipyard

Attachment – CBG Detailed Comments on Parcel G Retesting Work Plan

July 31, 2018 – Critique of the California Department of Public Health Work Plan for a Partial Gamma Survey of Parcel A-1 Hunters Point Naval Shipyard

May 7, 2018 – Critique of the Navy’s Parcel F Proposed Plan for Offshore Sediment Cleanup Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Superfund Site

July 2023 – Comments by Daniel Hirsch on California Energy Commission Upcoming Report to Support Proposed Breach of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant Phase-Out Agreement

July 20, 2020 - Comments by CBG, PSR-LA, and Natural Resources Defense Council on NRC's Proposed Interpretative Rule on Transfer of Very Low-Level Waste to Exempt Persons for Disposal.

September 20, 2017 – Comments by the Committee to Bridge the Gap on the Department of Toxic Substances Control’s Proposed Regulations for Toxicity Criteria for Human Health Risk Assessment – DTSC Reference Number R-2016-8 –  DTSC Toxicity Criteria Excel Sheet Comparison (pdf).

December 22, 2015 – Proposed Amendments to EPA Protective Action Guidance (RIN 2060-ZA19) by Physicians for Social Responsibility, Committee to Bridge the Gap, and others. Read our post on the subject here.

November 19, 2015 – CBG & Other Organizations Oppose Petitions to NRC to Relax Radiation Protections and Declare Radiation Good For You

Comments by CBG and NRDC

Comments by CBG, Southern California Federation of Scientists, Sierra Club Nuclear Free Campaign, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Food and Water Watch, and Beyond Nuclear

August 3, 2014 –  Group letter on Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Nuclear Power Operations – Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Docket, Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0689

September 16, 2013 – Re: Protective Action Guides for Radionuclides (Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2007–0268), signed by over 100 groups including CBG.

April 15, 2013 – EPA Dramatically Weakens Radiation Protections

Summary of EPA Protective Action Guides by CBG

Letter criticizing National Council on Radiation Protection (NRCP) and Measurements guide for relaxing radiation protections, being sent to NCRP from many groups including CBG

Decision Making for Late-Phase Recovery from Nuclear or Radiological Incidents Critique of NCRP by CBG, NIRS, PSR-LA, and SCFS

February 11, 2013 – DOE Proposes Unrestricted Recycling of Radioactive Metals Into Consumer Goods, CBG’s letter to the Department of Energy

September 3, 2018 – Comments by the Committee to Bridge the Gap, Physicians for Social Responsibility – Los Angeles and Southern California Federation of Scientists on the California State Land Commission’s Draft Environmental Impact Report for Decommissioning the San Onofre Nuclear Plant