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Show NEWS iiaviir!flifimeifltfI sfeiffl boiefs eoiminfii unify by David Harris 0;3en ALC Environmental Management The briefing tour visited 10 city councils from Kaysville to Ogden, including each community four-mont- h Office The Environmental Management Directorate completed its last in a series of briefings to the city councils of communities surrounding Hill AFB on Feb. 5. The briefings were conducted as part of the Installation Restoration Program, a Department of Defense program designed to locate and clean up contaminated areas on and around government installations. City councils were informed of the current status of the program and how the program has affected their that borders Hill. The tour began at West Point on Oct. 23 and concluded Feb. 5 at Riverdale. Presented by Environmental Management officials, the briefings covered such information as the history of the Installation Restoration Program, specific information regarding contaminated sites, progress reports and future plans. After officials completed the formal presentation, council members and the public were invited to ask specific questions regarding sites near their communities. Pay won't suffer interruption No Air Force member's pay will suffer interruption if they are placed in a missing status, according to officials at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service Denver Center. Missing status includes interned, captured, beor detained service leaguered, missing-in-actiosaid. members, they DFAS, when authorized by the Department of Defense, will begin depositing 10 percent of the n This Offer Good For All $ MILITARY-CIVILIA- This deposit is to ensure that the military member has funds available upon his or her return to military control. In the event the deposit of this amount to the USSDP causes severe hardship, DFAS will work with the casualty assistance officer and the $ PERSONNEL $ $ SIGNATURE LOANS-$10- O, $200, $300, $400 $ $ (Some retrictions may apply) $ Flexible Payments $ $ Collateral Available Loans $ $ $ t C PERSONALIZED PAYMENT PLANS 723-130- 776-140- 0 882-400- 0 (Brigham City) (Layton) 1- t c company that goes where I go. ' X At ease 000 IBP,. (Tooele) SABLE FINANCIAL, INC. $ $ 2182 No. Hill field Rd. Suite 2 family to alleviate such hardship. The member's allotments and other dispositions of net pay will continue, except in the rare instance where DFAS determines that payment of an allotment is contrary to the interests of the member, his or her family and the Air Force. Contact with the families of missing members will be primarily through the casualty assistance officer assigned by the base closest to the homes of the families. "I need a car insurance $ $ $ N 20-minu- te member's gross pay into the Uniformed Services Savings Deposit Program, which will pay the member interest at the rate of 10 percent per year. A.S.A.P. LOANS 5 Hilltop Times The directorate has planned other According to Environmental Management officials, the briefings have events to keep the public informed of been successful, but are only the be- Hill's environmental activities. South ginning of an ongoing plan to keep the Weber Elementary School will be the site of a public meeting to discuss a community informed. "This interchange between city proposed plan for removing contamicouncils and the base has proven to be nation from Operable Unit 2. an old very beneficial," said Environmental chemical disposal pit. The March 5 Management director, Bob Van meeting will give the public a chance Orman, to voice concerns directly to base "By meeting with local leaders, we officials. are taking an important first step "Nobody is happy with the contamitoward establishing a dialogue be- nation that has occurred," Captain tween Hill and its surrounding comHeyse said, "but by being open with munities," said Capt. Ed Heyse, chief the public and by making a concerted of Hill's Environmental Restoration effort to clean up past mistakes, we Division. "These briefings will help us and a good working better communicate future environ- are building trust relationship with the communities." mental matters." In addition to the briefing, city counThe directorate plans to continue cils were given a copy of a with its community relations activivideo production that explains in de- ties. Meetings will be held periodically tail the Installation Restoration Pro- to keep the community informed and gram. 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