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Environmental cleanup OK’d for former RI shipyard

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NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Federal environmental officials have approved cleanup remedies for a former Rhode Island shipyard.

The Newport Daily News reports (http://bit.ly/IX5CGL ) that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday it approved plans to clean up the former Robert E. Derecktor Shipyard site on Naval Station Newport property in Middletown. Cost estimates are more than $21 million.

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