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August 2, 2001 IN THIS ISSUE:
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Six EPA Assistant Administrators Await Senate Confirmation WASHINGTON, D.C. - After naming three new EPA regional Administrators at the end of June, six EPA Assistant Administrators now await confirmation in the Senate. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman has already appointed three new EPA Regional administrators: Robert W. Varney for Region 1, the New England region; Donald Welsh for Region 3, the mid-Atlantic region; and Thomas Skinner for Region 5, the Midwest region. Current EPA Assistant Administrator nominees in front of the Senate are Marianne Lamont Horinko, of Virginia, to be Assistant Administrator of the Office of Solid Waste. The other five nominees are Judith Elizabeth Ayres of California, Donald R. Schregardus of Ohio, Robert E. Fabricant of New Jersey, George Tracy Mehan III of Michigan, and Jeffrey R. Holmstead, of Colorado. Since June, only one Assistant Administrator, Stephen L. Johnson of Maryland, has been added to the EPA. The Senate will break for its August recess Friday, August 3rd, and resume again on Tuesday, September 4th.
EPA, Navy Sign Pact on Alemeda Air Station Cleanup SAN FRANCISCO, CA - The EPA and the Navy recently signed a legally binding agreement that sets enforceable deadlines and a formal regulatory framework for the Superfund cleanup of the Alameda Naval Air Station in California. The document, known as a "federal facility agreement," includes a listing of environmental documents that have been or will be prepared, an enforceable schedule for environmental investigation and cleanup work, and a process for dispute resolution. "This agreement will provide us with a useful tool in helping EPA to continue to provide oversight of the Navy cleanup of Alameda Naval Air Station," said Keith Takata, director of the EPA's regional Superfund program. "The EPA, the state and the Navy will work together to clean up this property for future redevelopment." The Navy is conducting the cleanup of the 2,634-acre facility with U.S. EPA and state oversight and assistance. The U.S. EPA designated the air station as a federal Superfund site in July 1999 after concluding that it posed a significant threat to public health and the surrounding environment. Soil, groundwater and marine sediment at the site are contaminated with industrial solvents, metals including chromium, copper and lead, petroleum products, PCBs, pesticides, and radium 226. Final cleanup remedies are expected to be in place by 2005. Wetlands and Remediation Conference - Sept. 5-6, Burlington, VT The First Wetlands and Remediation Conference was held in Salt Lake City in November 1999. It was attended by more than 300 remediation professionals, who met to discuss issues of common concern related to cleaning up contaminated wetlands and to using wetlands (natural and constructed) to treat contaminated ground-, surface-, and wastewater. More than 100 platform and poster presentations were made in 14 sessions. Because many 1999 participants and others have expressed interest in making this an ongoing meeting, Battelle is pleased to again sponsor and organize this second conference. This year's poster display and the commercial exhibit area will open the evening of Tuesday, September 4. The Conference program will begin with the Plenary Session on Wednesday morning. After the Plenary Session, platform sessions will be conducted in several concurrent tracks on Wednesday afternoon and all day Thursday. The poster session will be conducted on Wednesday evening. The size of the program will depend on the number and quality of abstracts received. The Technical Program Overview describes the expected scope of the Conference and lists the titles of several presentations already confirmed. For more information on the Wetlands and Remediation Conference, visit: Or e-mail: wetlandsconf@battelle.org Brownfields 2001: Join Your Colleagues on the Links at Lost Marsh Join your brownfields colleagues for a round of golf on Sunday, September 23, as a warm-up to the Brownfields 2001 conference in Chicago. The City of Hammond, Indiana, is offering a complimentary round of golf at Lost Marsh, part of the First Tee initiative to make golf more affordable and accessible to youth. The course is built on a former landfill through the city's municipal golf complex and economic development district. Transportation to and from the course, as well as clubs, will be provided free of charge by the City of Hammond. Separate registration is required and is on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration deadline is September 6, but space is filling up quickly so sign up as soon as possible. For more information and to register, contact Lisa Milligan at the International City/County Management Association at (508) 888-8616 or e-mail lmilligan@icma.org. From Brownfields to Birdies - Lost Marsh Golf Course, Indiana Before the Lost Marsh golf course in Hammond, Indiana became home to a 9-hole youth course and a full adult course, it was nothing but a 50-year old mountain of slag. "In an area that is dominated by smokestacks, fuel tanks and industrial traffic," wrote Lucio Guerrero, "the practically impenetrable mound is being turned into a youth golf course. The project, scheduled to be completed by the fall, is the largest public brownfield redevelopment in the state and one of the largest in the region." "The youth course is a combined effort between the city and several professional golf organizations to get kids interested in golf and provide affordable courses. The course has received a $75,000 grant from the United States Golf Association and $100,000 from the World Golf Foundation. The foundation has made Hammond part of its First Tee project, an effort to build 100 golf facilities for young people by 2000." "The entire development is expected to cost about $6 million. The Hammond City Council approved a $4.9 million bond, using tax increment financing, for the work. The project will include separate clubhouses for the First Tee program and public course, driving range and practice areas." Read the full article about the redevelopment of Indiana'a Lost Marsh at the link below: For more information on brownfields-to-golf-course success stories, visit BrownfieldGolf.com: |