[CPEO-MEF] Evaluating Land Use Controls

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The Management Guidance for the Defense Environmental Restoration
Program (September, 2001), available at 
http://www.dtic.mil/envirodod/DERP_MGT_GUIDANCE_0901.pdf, 
contains what appears to be new language on the use of land use controls
in Department of Defense cleanup programs. Most interesting, it requires
the evaluation of alternatives allowing for unrestricted use at any
project when land use controls are proposed"

"21.5.6. For any evaluation of response alternatives commencing after
October 31, 2000, where a use restriction will be imposed through the
environmental restoration process, either as a stand-alone response
alternative or as one component of a more complex action, Components
[that is, the armed services and Defense agencies] shall ensure that the
evaluation of response alternatives includes an analysis of an alternate
with an use restriction, as well as an analysis at the level of detail
appropriate to the size and scope of a response not requiring an use
restriction (e.g., implementation of a response that allows unrestricted
use). This will allow consideration of restricted and unrestricted use
alternatives in selecting the response action."

If this policy had been in place at Moffett Field this year, all
stakeholders would have had better information with which to judge the
Navy's proposed plan for Site 25, the wetlands area. I assume the new
policy will enhance decision-making elsewhere, as well.

Lenny
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 222B View St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
lsiegel@cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org

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