2007 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 28 Aug 2007 05:11:57 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] McClellan Air Force Base (CA) cleanup and redevelopment
 
News Release
U.S. EPA Region 9
August 27, 2007


U.S. EPA celebrates first in nation combined cleanup, redevelopment at Sacramento Superfund site

(San Francisco, Calif. -- 08/27/2007) At a ceremony today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, along with the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, the Regional Water Quality Control Board, the U.S. Air Force, Sacramento County and McClellan Business Park, marked the first time in the nation that the military will fund a private party to conduct clean up in conjunction with redevelopment at a Superfund site.

Sacramento County will contract with developer McClellan Business Park using $11.2 million from the Air Force to clean up a 62-acre parcel on the McClellan Air Force Base Superfund Site -- resulting in an expected 1,200 jobs and $600,000 per year in increased tax revenues for the region.

"Combining redevelopment needs with environmental cleanup efforts will help move these properties back into productive reuse more quickly in communities across the nation," said Keith Takata the EPA's director of Superfund for the Pacific Southwest region. "The framework developed for this project serves as a model for similar revitalization projects at closing bases across the country."


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For the entire release, see
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/9dcd36e1b689d03a852573440064017f?OpenDocument

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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