Congressman Sherman serves on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and on the Committee on Financial Services. He has been an effective advocate for the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and for the Rim of the Valley Corridor study. The Santa Susana Field Laboratorylies within Congressman Sherman's 30th Congressional District.
SSMPA visited Congressman Sherman on March 19, 2014, to discuss our campaign to arrange responsibly for the future of the former
SSMPA calls for SSFL Cleanup target date to
be pushed back to 2020.
Read HERE
Preserve the Simi Hills
Support prompt action by the National Park Service to arrange acquisition of property in the Santa Susana Field Laboratory and preserve it forever as open space and parkland.
Organizational resolution adopters to date:
Senator Pavley serves as the Chair of the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee. She also chairs a Select Committee on Climate Change. The Senator has been a long-time opponent of the sale, purchase and use of anticoagulant rodenticides that are sickening and killing pets and wildlife.
SSMPA visited Senator Pavley on October 28, 2013, to discuss our campaign to arrange responsibly for the future of the former
SSMPA met with staff members at Councilmember Mitch Englander's (LA CD12) office to ask them to join in the conversation about a responsible future for SSFL.
Read a summary here
Praise for SSMPA's Campaign
Joining the Conversation
Assemblymember Scott Wilk (CA AD38)
invited SSMPA to his office on July 18, to hear more about our campaign to Preserve the Simi Hills.
Our campaign urges the National Park Service to step forward now to arrange to take over the 450-acre NASA-administered piece of the Santa Susana Field Lab, after NASA completes its cleanup, and preserve it as open space parkland forever.
SSMPA thanks Assemblymember Wilk for his interest in planning now to provide a responsible future for the SSFL lands of the Simi Hills.
See U.S. Congresswoman Julia Brownley's reply to SSMPA's petition
Boeing Co. says it is committed to seeing ITS property at SSFL:
"protected and managed as open space parkland in perpetuity."
How is SSMPA putting your support to work?
Every two weeks SSMPA sends a fresh batch of support letters and positions to twenty (20) officials and organizations.
SSMPA then asks every one of those parties to meet with us so that we can make sure they know how much you want action to be taken now to preserve the SSFL lands in the future forever.
Our target list of officials and organizations includes:
(Move mouse over Name to see mailing address)
• Supervisor Michael Antonovich: L.A. County District 5
• Councilmember Bob Blumenfield: L.A. City CD3
• U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer: CA
• Congresswoman Julia Brownley: CA CD26
• Congressman Tony Cárdenas: CA CD29
• Councilmember Mitchell Englander: L.A. City CD12
• U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein: CA
• Supervisor Peter C. Foy: Ventura County District 4
• Assemblymember Jeff Gorell: CA AD44
• Supervisor Linda Parks: Ventura County District 3
• Senator Fran Pavley: CA SD27
• Congressman Adam Schiff: CA CD28
• Congressman Brad Sherman: CA CD30
• Superintendent David Szymanski, National Park Service
• Congressman Henry Waxman: CA CD33
• Assemblymember Scott Wilk: CA AD38
• Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky: L.A. County District 3
• The Boeing Company
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)
See West Hills Neighborhood Council's position on:
Acquisition of land in the Santa Susana Field Lab that NASA is releasing
See Reseda Neighborhood Council's position on:
Action Alert!
NPS SSFL - Resolution & Petition
Just five miles west of Chatsworth lie almost 3,000 stunningly beautiful acres of Simi Hills ridge top. They are mostly open space in a vital, shrinking wildlife habitat corridor. They are the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, also known as "Rocketdyne" or "Boeing." Some of that land is undergoing major decontamination, expected to be complete within the next four to seven years. The SSFL land is awesome terrain with many cultural assets and we need your help to keep it in the public domain, prevent opportunistic development, and protect this strategic wildlife habitat corridor.
More than 400 acres of that land is owned by the federal government and is administered by NASA. NASA has declared that it will complete a thorough cleanup of its property, but has no future use for the land. In effect, the federal property is up for sale to a future owner now.
So far, thirteen local councils and organizations have passed resolutions to support the National Park Service's eventual acquisition of federally-owned properties at the Santa Susana Field Lab site, following the site's completion of cleanup.
The resolution, based on SSMPA's proposal, calls for the land to be preserved as open space forever.
all recently passed their resolutions, based on SSMPA's proposal. SSMPA is calling on several other neighbor-hood councils and community organizations to approve their own resolutions to the same end.
SSMPA is also circulating a companion petition for individuals to sign (700+ signatures to date). The petition states:
"I support prompt action by the National Park Service to arrange acquisition of property in the Santa Susana Field Laboratory and preserve it forever as open space and parkland."
See SSMPA's Position on:
See Granada Hills North's Neighborhood Council's position on:
See Porter Ranch Neighborhood Council's position on:
See Winnetka Neighborhood Council's support for preservation of NASA lands in the former Santa Susana Field Laboratory
See Valley Alliance of Neighborhood Councils' position on:
See Equestrian Trails Inc., Corral 54's position on:
See Chatsworth Community Coordinating Council's position on:
The Granada Hills South Neighborhood Council
supports preservation of SSFL lands as open space / parkland in perpetuity.
The Ventura County Archaeological Society supports preservation of the archeologically extraordinary SSFL lands as open space / parkland.
See Lake Balboa Neighborhood Council's position on:
See Canoga Park Neighborhood Council's position on:
Read U.S. Congressman Henry Waxman's reply to SSMPA's resolution
See Chatsworth Neighborhood Council's position on:
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