[CPEO-MEF] PRIVATIZATION: McClellan Air Force Base (CA) plan signed

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

News Release
U.S. EPA Region 9
July 20, 2009

U.S. EPA, state approve cleanup plan at McClellan Air Force Base 
Superfund Site / Private company to accelerate cleanup, redevelop area 
to active use

(San Francisco, Calif -- 07/20/2009) The U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency and the state of California recently approved and signed a 
cleanup plan for a 62-acre portion of the McClellan Air Force Base 
Superfund Site in Sacramento, Calif., known as Parcel C-6. The cleanup 
decision is the first-of-its-kind, where the Department of Defense 
assigned authority over to the EPA to select a cleanup plan for a 
Superfund site. A private redevelopment company, McClellan Business 
Park, LLC, will carry out the cleanup under EPA and state oversight, 
using Air Force funds. The cleanup plan is based on environmental 
investigations and comments from agencies, organizations and the public, 
and identifies actions needed to address risks to human health and the 
environment. Allowing a private company to conduct the cleanup 
accelerates the cleanup and redevelopment process so the area can be put 
back into active use sooner. The cleanup must still meet federal and 
state requirements.

The cleanup will address contamination mainly through excavating and 
treating surface and shallow soil contaminated primarily with 
polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which were commonly used as coolants 
and lubricants in electrical equipment. Soil suitable for treatment will 
be processed in a way that captures and destroys contaminants removed 
from the soil. The former Air Force Base was placed on the EPA’s 
Superfund list in 1987, and since then the Air Force has conducted 
investigations and cleanup throughout the base. The property is the 
first portion of the former McClellan AFB to undergo privatized cleanup. 
Plans are underway to address the remaining roughly 3,000 acres of the 
former base through a similar approach.

To read more about McClellan Air Force Base Superfund Site, visit: 
http://www.epa.gov/region09/waste/sfund/mcclellan/

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For the original release, see
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/7d5bb3dbd6540df5852575f900682d76?OpenDocument

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope 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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