The federal government has finalized plans to remove radioactive waste from the former Shpack landfill in Norton, Mass. The EPA and Army Corps of Engineers will oversee the $43 million project, scheduled to be completed by summer 2006. Under the plan, 35,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil will be hauled from the site. The landfill was used as an industrial dump from 1946 to the 1970s, and was named to the Superfund list in 1986.
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