DERA RESCISSION IMPACT LIST

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org>]

The Department of Defense prepared for Congress a list of the bases 
that would be impacted by the House of Representatives' proposed 
$150 million rescission in the fiscal year 1995 Defense Environmental 
Restoration Account appropriation. Thus far, there is no public 
information on the effects of the Senate's proposed $300 million 
rescission. In preparing the list, the armed services ranked sites by 
their relative risk. The highest risk sites were spared.

Below is a list of all the individual bases that would be cut $1 million 
or more (in thousands). The three starred installations were just 
proposed for closure. If the Feinstein Amendment (to protect bases 
just proposed for closure from cleanup cutbacks) passes, the cuts will 
have to be made elsewhere.

$15,816 Weldon Springs Ordnance Works, Missouri 
$8,584 Pensacola Naval Air Station, Florida 
$7,035 Yorktown Fuels Division FISC, Virginia 
$6,183 *Adak Naval Air Station, Alaska 
$4,144 Jacksonville Naval Air Station, Florida 
$3,520 Twenty-Nine Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Ctr, CA
$3,400 Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina 
$3,350 Ramey Air Force Base, Puerto Rico 
$2,890 Camp LeJeune Marine Corps Base, North Carolina 
$2,868 Yuma-Chocolate Mountain AGR, California 
$2,800 McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas 
$2,451 Tobyhanna Army Depot, Pennsylvania 
$2,241 Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts 
$2,017 Hammer Field, California 
$2,006 Stockton Naval Communications Station 
$1,918 Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station, California 
$1,625 Brunswick Naval Air Station, Maine 
$1,617 Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station, North Carolina 
$1,616 *Lakehurst Naval Air Warfare Center, New Jersey 
$1,552 Pearl Harbor FISC, Hawaii 
$1,540 Kingsville Naval Air Station, Texas 
$1,500 Columbus Defense Construction Supply Center, Ohio 
$1,344 Amaknak, Alaska 
$1,349 Point Barrow Naval Arctic Research Lab, Alaska 
$1,295 Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska 
$1,200 *Guam Naval Ship Repair Facility 
$1,175 Arecibo Aux Air Drome, Puerto Rico 
$1,143 Kingsbury Ordnance Plant, Indiana 
$1,122 Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida 
$1,092 Clear Air Force Station, Alaska 
$1,055 Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, Puerto Rico 
$1,011 Oceana Naval Air Station, Virginia 
$1,002 Whidbey Island Naval Air Station 
$1,000 Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Hawaii 

These 34 bases account for $94,461,000, nearly two-thirds of the 
proposed cuts. Other proposed cuts at the $150 million level include 
$5,779,000 from funds provided the Agency for Toxic Substances 
and Disease Registry for health assessments, $5,000,000 from 
transfers to state regulatory agencies under the Defense/State 
Memoranda of Agreement, and $5,672,000 to the Air Force Center for 
Environmental Excellence for cleanup at locations where the Defense 
Department is a potentially reponsible party.

Lenny Siegel