A Trust Betrayed (47 page)

Partain, Warren, Jr.,
171–173
,
176

Partain, Warren, Sr.,
171

Paul, Neal,
110
,
140

Payne, Eugene G., Jr.,
183
,
212–213

PCE.
See
Tetrachloroethylene

Pearl Harbor, attack on,
2–5

Penn, B.J.,
196

Pentachlorophenol,
88

Perchloroethylene (PCE).
See
Tetrachloroethylene

Pesticides,
34
,
48
,
57–58
,
84
,
88–90
,
95
,
102

Petroleum contamination,
55–57
,
87–88
,
90
,
92
.
See also
Benzene

USS
Philadelphia
,
22–23

Philippines,
24

Pirates,
22

Pirie, Robert B., Jr.,
144

Poirier, Ron,
249–250

Poisoned Patriots Fund of America,
224

Polk, James K.,
23

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs),
48

Portier, Christopher,
199
,
213–214
,
239
,
242–243
,
257–258

Price, W.R.,
59–60
,
68

Public Health Assessment (1997; ATSDR)

     
ATSDR responsibility for,
97–99

     
cancers in adults,
117

     
DoD review,
197–200

     
four-part expansion plan,
152–153

     
Navy officials' response to first draft,
101–103

     
origins of,
97–99

     
request for DoD review,
197–200

     
revision in 2009,
195–196

     
scientific advisory panel,
156

     
See also
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

Public Health Assessment (2013; ATSDR),
257–258

Public Health Service,
98

Quantico Marine Corps Base (Virginia),
18

Racism,
21

Raines, Rick,
197–198

Raleigh News & Observer
,
83–84

Regulation

     
Bush administration weakening,
131–133

     
DoD request for exemption,
137–138
,
145–148

     
litigation over Marine Corps' knowledge of contamination,
234–235

     
military handling of contamination,
73–74

     
Navy regulations for drinking water,
164–165

     
state regulation of contamination,
67
,
83

     
TCE and PCE,
54

Respiratory illness,
42
,
118

Rifle Range,
49–50
,
55
,
71
,
88

Roach, Anita,
121–123

Rochelle, Jerry “Ike,”
58

Roig-Franzia, Manuel,
142

Roosevelt, Theodore,
24

Rose, Daniel,
153

Rose, Hilda,
153

Royal Netherlands Navy,
143

Rubio, Marco,
221

Ruckart, Perri Zeitz,
193

Rundgren, Chuck,
61(quote)
,
74
,
84

Safe Drinking Water Act (1974),
32
,
45–46
,
50
,
52
,
55
,
236

USS
St. Louis
,
2–6

St. Petersburg Times
,
93
,
182
,
205–206

Sandia Base (New Mexico),
9

Santa Anna, Antonio López de,
23

Sapphire Group,
144

Sarasota Herald-Tribune
,
221

Sass, Jennifer,
240

Savitz, David,
202–203

Schlichtmann, Jan,
120

Schools, TCE contamination in,
71

Science Advisory Board (SAB),
132–134
,
144–145

Scientific advisory panel,
153–160
,
204–206
,
253

Scott, Cheryl Siegel,
131

Scott, H.P.,
92–93

SCS Engineers (Virginia),
55–56

Sencer, David,
190–191

September 11, 2001,
125

Septic arthritis,
43

Sewage spills,
148

Sharpe, Danny,
33
,
49
,
51
,
67
,
81

Shinseki, Eric,
208
,
245–246
,
264

Shiver, Rick,
34–35
,
67–69
,
85
,
87
,
95

Shriberg, Joel,
237–238

Siegel, Lenny,
240
,
256–257

Sinks, Thomas,
82
,
128
,
161
,
166–167
,
191–192
,
199–200
,
206
,
241

Skin rashes,
42
,
62
,
121
,
172–174

Skipp, Catharine,
142

Skipper, Kathy,
97(quote)
,
110–111

Smorto, Persio, Webb & McGill,
234

SNARL.
See
Suggested No Adverse Reaction Level

Snyder, Donal McLean, Jr.,
233–234

Solvents,
67
.
See also
Tetrachloroethylene
;
Trichloroethylene

Sonnenfeld, Nancy,
99–100

Spanish-American War (1898),
24
,
26

Spina bifida,
41
,
123
,
127–128
,
186

The Stand,
121
,
124

Stasiak, Darrell,
38

Stasiak, Eileen Marie,
38

Stasiak, Paul,
38

Statute of limitations,
234–235

Steingraber, Sandra,
203–204

Stephenson, John B.,
188

Stillbirths,
37–40

Strand, Karen Fristoe,
119
,
225
,
227–228

Stupak, Bart,
161–162
,
164–165
,
169
,
209

Suggested No Adverse Reaction Level (SNARL),
52–53

Superfund

     
EPA progress,
169

     
financing ATSDR childhood leukemia study,
107–108

     
Honeywell sites,
203–204

     
jurisdictional controversy over cleanup,
85–87
,
91
,
93–95

     
Marine Corps' lack of cooperation,
100–101

     
prevalence of military bases as Superfund sites,
147
,
254–255

     
Wolfowitz's attempt to obtain exemptions through,
138

Supreme Court, US,
232–233

Tampa Bay Times
newspaper,
54

Tarawa Terrace

     
ATSDR investigation,
102–103
,
111–112

     
cleanup efforts,
169

     
increasing water demand,
59–60

     
1980s water sampling,
51
,
53

     
residents' notification of water contamination,
73

     
sources of solvents,
69

     
unexplained illnesses in children,
62–63

     
USDHHS health survey,
123–124

Tardiff, Robert,
144–145

TCE.
See
Trichloroethylene

T-cell chronic leukemia,
115–117

Tencate, Michael,
179

Terrorist acts,
125
,
137–138

Tetrachloroethylene (PCE),
199

     
ATSDR investigation,
99
,
103–105
,
152–153
,
187

     
breast cancer in men,
174
,
176–177

     
BUMED limits and testing regulations,
235–236

     
CCE test procedure,
55

     
congressional hearing,
166–167

     
disability benefits for exposed veterans,
222

     
DoD opposition to childhood leukemia investigation,
108

     
dry-cleaning contamination,
90–91
,
142

     
lack of standards and regulations,
32–33
,
54

     
linking to disease,
214
,
223

     
military downplaying severity of contamination,
74
,
164–165

     
1980s water sampling,
47
,
51

     
Rifle Range tests,
55

     
SNARL limits,
53

     
state government's notification of violations,
83

     
Tarawa Terrace contamination,
69

     
well closures resulting from contamination,
71–72

Tetrochloroethane (TeCA),
69–70

Thomas, Kris,
177

Thomas, W.P.,
101

Thompson, David G.,
30–31

Thorpe, Charles Warren,
41

Thorpe, Russell Alexander,
41

Tiebout, R.A.,
80–81
,
83
,
86

Tillman, Pat,
260

Times Beach, Missouri,
80

Tokarz, A.P.,
91–92

Toluene,
55

Townsend, Aimee,
9–10
,
12–14

Townsend, Anne Taubitz,
1–2
,
11–18
,
124–125
,
159
,
164

Townsend, Arthur,
2
,
4
,
6–7

Townsend, Christopher Thomas,
1–2
,
10–18
,
124

Townsend, Jack,
2
,
4–6

Townsend, Mark,
8
,
10–14

Townsend, Nietta,
2–6

Townsend, Tom

     
CAP,
159

     
childhood, education, and family,
2–10

     
Christopher's illness and death,
10–18

     
congressional hearing,
162–164

     
information gathering,
124–127
,
140–141

     
opinion of the Marine Corps,
261

     
The Few, the Proud, the Forgotten,
226