[CPEO-MEF] PRESERVATION: Who will "re-skin" Moffett Field's (CA) Hangar One?

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Question of who will re-skin Hangar One remains unsettled

By Jason Green, Daily News
San Jose Mercury News (CA)
November 14, 2009

The question of whose responsibility it is to re-skin Hangar One after 
its contaminated panels are peeled off remained unanswered this week, 
with a federal agency yet to decide whether NASA or the Navy should foot 
the bill.

Further complicating the South Bay landmark's future, the Navy appears 
on track to begin de-skinning the structure next spring. A program 
manager with AMEC Earth & Environmental, the United Kingdom-based 
company hired to do the work, presented an overview of its plans at a 
Moffett Restoration Advisory Board meeting Thursday night.

NASA and the Navy asked the Office of Management and Budget in September 
to resolve their impasse over which agency should pay for a new skin. 
The Navy, which turned over Moffett Field to NASA Ames Research Center 
in 1994, maintains it is responsible only for cleaning up PCBs, lead and 
other toxins at Hangar One.

Kathy Stewart, the Navy's Base Realignment and Closure environmental 
coordinator for Moffett Field, announced at the board meeting that the 
federal agency hadn't settled the dispute and there is "no time frame 
for a decision."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_13787846?nclick_check=1#

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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
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