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State sets deadline for Hanover site cleanup

By Michele Morgan Bolton

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 12, 2012

The state Department of Environmental Protection has set a June deadline to negotiate a payment agreement with two companies, a university, and the US Department of Defense, which have all been deemed partially responsible for polluting the former National Fireworks Co. site in Hanover. If an accord isn’t reached by then, agency officials will move ahead to implement their own plan, which involves asking the federal government to declare it a Superfund area and help with the $25 million cost.

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