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McClellan Air Force Base Cleanup and Redevelopment
Brief video, filmed at the celebration event » .wmv, 1:05 min
Why Privatize?
Privatizing military base Superfund cleanups helps maximize cleanup and redevelopment dollars. By privatizing the environmental work, military-provided cleanup funding can be used to help offset certain redevelopment expense by working the cleanup remedies into the development plan. Fusing the redevelopment needs of closed military installations with environmental cleanup efforts allows for the best possible reuse projects in the most efficient time frame possible.
Privatizing military base cleanups will help move these properties back into productive reuse more quickly in communities across the nation. The privatization framework developed by the Region 9 Superfund team will serve as a model for greater use of this collaborative approach at McClellan and other Superfund sites across the Country.
EPA, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, Regional Water Quality Control Board, the Air Force, and Sacramento County will create the first privatized clean-up of a Superfund site in the nation. Privatization refers to the government funding of an independent party in conjunction with redevelopment. Sacramento County will receive funding from the Air Force to clean-up a 62-acre parcel on the former McClellan Air Force Base. Sacramento County has contracted with a private developer, McClellan Business Park, to conduct the clean-up.
After clean-up options have been evaluated, EPA will issue a proposed plan outlining the preferred cleanup alternative and will seek public comment on that proposal.
“Combining redevelopment needs with environmental cleanup efforts will help move these properties back into productive reuse more quickly in communities across the nation,” said Keith Takata the EPA’s director of Superfund in the Pacific Southwest region. “The framework developed for this project serves as a model for similar revitalization projects at closing bases across the country.
Under the Superfund law, the military service that operated the base also is responsible for implementing the cleanup. The work is done with oversight by EPA and state regulatory agencies under a Federal Facilities Agreement. At McClellan, the Air Force will continue to conduct the cleanup of the majority of the site under that mechanism. McClellan Business Park will be responsible for remediating the 62-acre privatization parcel under this first-in-the-nation privatization agreement with EPA and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control.
The former McClellan Air Force Base, a 3,000 acre facility located in Sacramento, was placed on the EPA’s Superfund list in 1987. Over 300 identified sites within the former base are contaminated with solvents, metals and other hazardous wastes as the result of aircraft maintenance and other industrial activities at the base. McClellan was slated for closure under the Base Realignment and Closure Act in 1995, and in 2001 McClellan ended its military mission.
The master redevelopment plan for McClellan Business Park calls for aviation-industrial use as the central purpose envisioned for McClellan. Significant opportunities for industrial park, office park and community support uses are also planned to maximize the long-term reuse and redevelopment opportunities available at McClellan. The overall goals of the McClellan reuse planning process are to secure jobs, support the regional economy, ensure sustainable development and expedite civilian use.
Maps of McClellan Project - Privatization Parcel C6
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