The government has delayed for at least 90 days the disposal of artillery propellant at Camp Minden.
The Times reports (http://bit.ly/1E7mPEI ) the decision was released in a letter from Samuel Coleman, deputy regional administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to Louisiana officials.
Coleman says in the letter that the delay will help "remove any barriers to the state selecting an equal or more protective remedy at Camp Minden."
Authorities say there are 15 million pounds of M6 propellant at Camp Minden. The M6 was abandoned on site by Explo Systems Inc. after it went bankrupt in 2013. An explosion in October 2012 in one of Explo's leased bunkers rattled homes, shattered windows 4 miles away in Minden.