MADISON, Ind. (AP) – The Army is seeking permission to leave perhaps 80 tons of depleted uranium projectiles in place at a former weapons testing site in southern Indiana, saying it a cleanup would be too costly and dangerous.

Army officials have asked the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission to let it stop environmental monitoring at the old Jefferson Proving Ground near Madison where ammunition testing was done from World War II into the mid-1990s.

Former site worker Mike Moore tells The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky, (http://cjky.it/1yKyacT ) that he worries old shells could be washed out into streams flowing to the nearby Ohio River.

Hoosier Environmental Council policy director Tim Maloney says he doesn't think the Army should leave radioactive material behind without ongoing testing at the area about 40 miles northeast of Louisville.