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A long-awaited revise of a plan for the cleaning up of toxic groundwater in this southern Manatee County community was submitted Tuesday to the state environmental regulators. Lockheed Martin officials delivered the Remedial Action Plan Addendum to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection offices in Temple Terrace late Tuesday afternoon. The addendum was a response to the DEP's March review of the revisions of a proposed clean-up plan Lockheed submitted more than a year ago.

Technical experts from Lockheed Martin and the community advocacy group FOCUS met Wednesday to discuss the clean-up proposal for toxic waste left behind from an old beryllium plant in this southern Manatee County neighborhood. The meeting was one in a series "to continue its collaboration with residents concerning the submission of the Remedial Action Plan (RAP) Addendum to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, scheduled for July 14," according to a Thursday e-mail message from Gary Cambre, a spokesman for Lockheed Martin. The groundwater contamination was discovered in 2000, after Lockheed Martin purchased the the former Loral American Beryllium Company site in 1996. "At this meeting, Lockheed Martin provided an update on the groundwater modeling and the design of the groundwater treatment system," Cambre's e-mail stated.