[CPEO-MEF] REGULATION: Tyndall Air Force Base (FL) memo

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Environmental Restoration Program ERP Progress at Tyndall AFB, FL

On August 19, 2010, the new Assistant Secretary of the Air Force 
(Installations, Environment & Logistics) Terry A. Yonkers issued a 
memorandum intended to move forward the cleanup of Tyndall despite the 
apparent impasse in Air Force negotiations with EPA over the content of 
a CERCLA interagency agreement.

The memo begins: "By this Memo, I am hereby directing the cleanup effort 
at Tyndall AFB to move forward expeditiously and in accordance with the 
framework established under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) (as consistent with the draft 
Federal Facility Agreement (FFA) framework) and the Defense 
Environmental Restoration Program. The objective is to achieve site 
closure/response complete for the remaining Installation Restoration 
Program (IRP) sites at Tyndall quickly and efficiently. As such, I am 
also directly that the cleanup be conducted using a performance-based 
solicitation with contract award in early CY 2011. A performance-based 
contract has the advantage of incentivizing the contractor to achieve 
results (i.e., site closures) expeditiously.

Yonkers added, "With respect to the Resource Conservation and Recovery 
Act (RCRA) order issued by EPA, which became effective in May 2008, the 
draft FFA framework will also satisfy the substantive requirements of 
the order...."


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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
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