From: | "Theodore J. Henry" <thenry@umabnet.ab.umd.edu> |
Date: | 09 Jul 1997 08:32:04 |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | Re: DoD Future Land Use |
On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org> wrote: > > 5. There have not been many sites (individual areas within larger > installations) cleaned up to restricted-use standards prior to the > initiation of the transfer process, so we don't really know what DOD's > practice or the regulatory response will be. For general knowledge, there are two sites at APG known as Carroll Is. and Graces Quarters which will reach the Proposed Plan stage this year; these sites were used for Chemical agent testing from the late 1940s to apporoximately 1970. The selected alternative will likely be making them a natural reserve based on the fact that it is impossible to clean-up the sites in their entirity, particularly since glass and other types of containers of CWM are likely present and cannot be detected by magnetometry. Since APG is an active base, this property will stay under Army control with posting, occasional clearances,etc. I guess what happens to such land in the future is part of the issue. > > 6. As I understand current policy, DOD would review property proposed > for transfer. If any parcel has not been cleaned to standards required > for unrestricted use, it would seek to get the prospective owner to > agree to the institutional controls that restrict that use. The new > owner could agree to the restrictions, the owner could refuse and DOD > could refuse to make the transfer, or the owner could pay for > additional remediation. DOD will not conduct additional cleanup simply > to enable new uses. > I have been too busy in the past to track it personally, but I know some land was transferred from Fort Meade (Maryland) for use as an airport and the discovery of significant UXO contamination during or after the transfer raised some interesting problems between the Army and the local government. If anyone on the listserver is familiar with specifics about the case, I think they would be interesting to discuss in this context. Ted Henry | |
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