Fort Monroe: An Update on the Environmental Cleanup

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Fort MonroeAn Update on the Environmental
Cleanup

Presented to theFort Monroe Federal Area
Development AuthorityJuly 17, 2008

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Agenda

• Introduction
• An Overview
• BRAC Environmental Cleanup Requirements
• Primary Partners in Environmental Cleanup
• Consulting Partners in Environmental Cleanup
• Responsibilities of Environmental Partners
• The Role of a Reuse Plan in Environmental Cleanup
• The Road to Environmental Cleanup
• Environmental Contamination Concerns
• Conventional Environmental Sites to be
  Investigated
• MEC Sites to be Investigated
• Schedule for Future Work
• Questions and Discussion

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BRAC Environmental Cleanup Requirements

• Base Realignment and Closure Acts of 1988 and
  1990
• Outlines general requirements for the BRAC
  disposal process
• Stipulates compliance with environmental laws
• Comprehensive Environmental Response,
  Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA)
• Additional Federal and State Environmental
  Regulations
• Department of Defense must fund environmental
  investigation and cleanup

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Primary Partners in Environmental Cleanup
FMFADA
Commonwealth of Virginia
US ARMY
VDEQ
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Consulting Partners in Environmental Cleanup
The Public (i.e. Restoration Advisory Board)
FMFADA
Commonwealth of Virginia
VDHR
US ARMY
VDEQ
Additional TBD Agencies
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Putting Faces and Names to the Cleanup Effort

• FMFADA
• Bill Armbruster Conover Hunt, FMFADA
• Julie Carver, Steve Young Richard Satkin,
  Matrix Design Group
• David Knisely, Garrity Knisely
• Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
• Rick Weeks, Durwood Willis, Eric Salopek Pat
  McMurray
• Jim Pastorick, UXO Pro
• US Army
• Jennifer Guerrero Robin Mills, Fort Monroe DPW
• Elaine Anderegg Jay Foster, BRAC
• Roger Walton, AEC
• Contracted Support
• Virginia Department of Historical Resources
• Ethel Eaton

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VDEQ Munitions Contractor Support w/UXO Pro

• Background Experience
• Former U. S. Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal
  Officer
• Project Manager of Munitions and Explosives of
  Concern (MEC) investigation/cleanup projects for
  10 years
• Technical MEC Project Consultant to State
  regulators for 10 years
• Assisted States in similar high-profile BRAC
  projects
• Naval Air Station Adak, Alaska Vieques Naval
  Training Range, Puerto Rico Millville Bombing
  and Gunnery Range Palmyra Gunnery Range, New
  Jersey Governors Island, New York Ft.
  McClellan, Alabama

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Responsibilities of Environmental Partners

• Commonwealth of Virginia
• Accept reversionary property from the US Army
• Fort Monroe Federal Area Development Authority
• Develop Base Reuse Plan (6/30/08) and Homeless
  Accommodation Plan
• Redevelop the property to meet community needs
• Ensure that cleanup is coordinated with Reuse
  Plan implementation
• Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
• Protect human health and the environment
• Provide regulatory oversight of environmental
  cleanup
• Consider Reuse Plan when determining cleanup
  requirements

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Responsibilities of Environmental Partners

• Virginia Department of Historic Resources
• Advise assist on historic preservation issues
  during environmental cleanup
• US Army
• Protect Human Health and the Environment
• Conduct environmental investigation and cleanup
  pursuant to CERCLA, applicable environmental
  federal laws, and DoD policies
• Consider Reuse Plan in remedial action selection
• Ensure monitoring or adequate controls are in
  place for post-transfer environmental
  requirements
• Respond to any post-transfer discovery of
  contamination that poses an unacceptable risk
  and is attributed to DoD activity
• Respond, per DoD policy, to requests for support
  of explosives or munitions emergency

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The Role of a Reuse Plan in Environmental Cleanup

• The Reuse Plan
• Identifies future land plans
• Considers community goals and economic objectives
• Provides suggestions for redevelopment
  progression
• Will be used to prioritize environmental cleanup
  sequence
• Environmental Cleanup Requirements
• Areas of concern must be adequately investigated
  so that environmental cleanup decisions can be
  made
• Evaluate risk as it relates to future reuse
• Considers environmental condition of property in
  planning future use

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The Fort Monroe Reuse Plan
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The Road to Environmental Cleanup
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Discovery of Contamination

• Preliminary Assessment (PA)
• Historical records review
• Regulatory agency file search
• Interview
• Site walk
• Site Inspection (SI)
• Initial field investigation
• Geophysical investigation
• Collection analysis of soil, sediment, and
  water samples to determine nature of
  contamination

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Investigation Activities

• Remedial Investigation (RI)
• Detailed site characterization to determine
  nature and extent of contamination
• Human health and ecological risk assessments
• Feasibility Study (FS)
• Development of cleanup goals
• Development of remedial alternatives costs
• Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis Removal
  Action
• Immediate threat to human health and the
  environment
• Streamlined process which may be substituted for
  RI/FS activities under appropriate regulatory
  conditions

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Decision Activities

• Proposed Plan
• Selection of proposed remedy
• Public comment
• Decision Document (DD)
• Selection of final remedy
• Detailed description of land use controls
• Legally enforceable remedy agreement

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Remedial Activities

• Remedial Design (RD)
• Based on the selected remedy
• Includes the preparation of detailed engineering
  plans, specifications, and cost estimates for
  remedy
• Remedial Action (RA)
• Implementation of remedy selected to protect
  human health and the environment

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Post Remedial Activities and Site Closeout

• Land use controls
• Deed restrictions
• Fencing, access restrictions, and other security
  measures
• Long-term monitoring
• Groundwater
• Landfill caps
• Site Closeout
• No Further Action (NFA) issued by VDEQ

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Environmental Contamination Concerns

• Conventional Environmental Sites Areas of
  Interest
• Landfill with Incinerator Ash Disposal Area
• Rifle, Pistol Skeet Ranges
• Auto Boat Maintenance Areas
• Machine Shop
• Gasoline Filling Station Petroleum Hydrocarbon
  Releases
• Photo Graphic Aids Labs
• Medical/Dental Clinic
• Fire Fighting Training Area
• Pesticide Release Area
• Open Storage Areas and Railroad
• Storm sewer outfalls and Moat
• Site wide Sediments

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Environmental Contamination Concerns

• Munitions and Explosives of Concern (MEC)
• Munitions Firing Points
• Target Impact Area
• MEC Burial
• Discarded Military Munitions

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Conventional Environmental Sites to be
Investigated

• Agreement reached in 2007 that 25 sites would
  undergo initial field investigation
• Site Inspection (SI) work conducted in Aug/Sept
  2007
• Draft SI Report completed Feb 2008
• Agreed with Draft SI Report conclusion that no
  further action was required at 6 of 25 sites
  investigated
• US Army requested funds for follow-on
  investigation of 19 remaining SI sites in May 2008

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Conventional Environmental Sites to be
Investigated

• Of the 19 SI sites requiring further
  investigation
• Removal Action may be undertaken at 3 4 sites
  to mitigate risk
• 4 sites show ecological risk only additional eco
  risk assessment needed
• Remaining sites to be carried forward in CERCLA
  process
• Additional sites for SI level work under
  discussion

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MEC Sites to be Investigated

• Agreement reached in 2007 that 9 general
  Munitions Response Site (MRS) areas on land at
  Fort Monroe would be investigated
• Discussions are continuing between the US Army
  and VDEQ regarding the need for a MEC
  investigation in Mill Creek

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U. S. Army Schedule for Future Work

• Conventional Environmental Sites
• Follow-on Site Investigation work to be conducted
  in late 2008 to early 2009
• In June 2008, a discussion of cleanup priorities
  began. Assumptions being recreational areas are
  the highest priority in the environmental cleanup
  sequence
• RI/FS work scheduled in 2009 and 2010
• DoDs goal is to have all cleanup work completed
  in 2010
• US Army has programmed all cleanup work to be
  completed in support of DoD goal

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U. S. Army Schedule for Future Work

• MEC Sites
• US Army to issue Request for Proposal for
  selection of MEC consultant in July 2008
• US Army to award contract for MEC consultant in
  late 2008
• Draft Remedial Investigation (RI) Workplan and RI
  field work to be initiated in 2009
• RI Report in 2010

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Questions and Discussion

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