From: | ebley@thecity.sfsu.edu |
Date: | 12 Apr 1996 12:57:05 |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | Contaminants and Innovative Technology |
From: Erika Bley <ebley@thecity.sfsu.edu> Subject: Contaminants and Innovative Technology On behalf of the Bay Area Defense Conversion Action Team (BADCAT), I would like to express how pleased we are by this innovative new direction taken by CAL EPA to provide a clearer picture of military base contamination problems by estimating volumes of contaminated media and mass of contaminants at the states closing bases. The State of Californias (Department of Toxic Substance Control, Office of Military Facilities, California Environmental Protection Agency ) Contaminant Inventory Project is making possible the part of our work that focuses on integrating new technologies into base conversion. For the BADCAT Environmental Technology Partnership Project (BADCAT ETP), this new method of collecting data, and aggregating it for an entire region such as the Bay Area, enabled identification of a regional contamination problem for which the BADCAT ETP could then seek innovative and emerging environmental technologies to address that contamination problem. For those not yet familiar with the BADCAT ETP, a program managed by the Bay Area Economic Forum (BAEF), we are a public-private collaboration of BAEF, Bay Area Regional Technology Alliance (BARTA), California Environmental Protection Agency (CAL EPA), United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), United States Navy, Chevron Research and Technology Corporation and other technical experts working to help expedite transfer of Bay Area closing bases through the application of emerging and innovative environmental technologies. The BADCAT ETP expects to expedite cleanup and transfer of properties at the regions 12 closing and closed bases by complementing the on-going investigation and remediation process with new technologies that can be applied to multiple Bay Area sites. The BADCAT ETP currently being piloted is designed to test technologies on lower priority sites with similar contaminants as sites with high reuse potential. This strategy ensures the current clean-up process is not impeded and that successfully tested technologies address problems common to sites slated for clean-up in the near-term. Technology providers will self-fund the primary demonstration costs. As ours is a regional effort, data linking the Bay Areas bases together was essential to focus on those detection and remediation technologies that could address regional military base (and most likely private) clean-up problems. This will then optimize utilization of scare federal dollars once successfully tested technologies are implemented in current and future clean-ups. While BADCAT (and other groups) identified the benefits of matching new technologies to contaminants common to most of the regions bases, CAL EPA has made this effort possible by providing data to substantiate our regional strategy. Feel free to contact me for more information about the BADCAT ETP. Erika Bley ebley@thecity.sfsu.edu 415-357-3100 | |
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