N.M. regulators order Air Force to pick up the pace on fuel cleanup

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The Air Force faces potential fines of $10,000 a day if it doesn't install a system in time to cleanrnup an old aircraft fuel spill at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico regulators said last week.rnThe New Mexico Environment Department and the Air Force agreed in August 2013 to have arncleanup system running by the end of June. But the agency sent a letter acquired by thernAlbuquerque Journal complaining that the military's plan, using bacteria to break down the fuel,rncould potentially miss that date by up to a year.