[CPEO-MEF] Land Use Controls and UXO Sites

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Reprinted from the Fall 2004 edition of the U.S. Army Environmental
Center's "Fielding Environmental Solutions," on line at 
http://www.aec.army.mil/usaec/technology/fes00.html. 

Land Use Controls and UXO Sites

The utilization of Land Use Controls (LUCs) play an important role in
areas contaminated with potential unexploded ordnance (UXO).  In an
effort to assist the government, the National Defense Center for
Environmental Excellence (NDCEE), operated by Concurrent Technologies
Corporation (CTC), was tasked with documenting the current engineering
and institutional controls intended to protect human health and the
environment from an uncontrolled detonation of UXO.  UXO can be
detrimental to human health and LUC restrictions serve to limit and
prevent certain actions, inform users of conditions on the property, and
protect humans, environmental receptors, and property against residual
risks throughout the life cycle of the site.  

To assess the effectiveness and deficiencies of existing LUCs, the
NDCEE-led team conducted a research mission compromised of three major
elements.  This mission began with the establishment of a stakeholder
group, followed by a literature search using case studies to supplement
and validate the information obtained through this search. The
requirements for, and impediments to, short and long term
implementations of LUCs were also evaluated as part of this research.    

LUCs have become particularly useful as part of the Base Realignment and
Closure Acts (BRAC) and the Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) programs.
 LUCs are defined as either engineering controls (ECs) or institutional
controls (ICs) and include fences, signs, soil caps, pump and treat
systems, and barriers as well as deed restrictions, easements,
covenants, and zoning requirements.      

For more information on LUCs, visit http://www.uxotestsites.org or call
the US Army Environmental Center, Technology Branch at 410-436-6865.

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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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