Fundamental base closure environmental principles
- Parker, Milliken, Clark, O`Hara and Samuelian, Sacramento, CA (United States)
Military base closures present a paradox. The rate, scale and timing of military base closures is historically unique. However, each base itself typically does not present unique problems. Thus, the challenge is to design innovative solutions to base redevelopment and remediation issues, while simultaneously adopting common, streamlined or pre-approved strategies to shared problems. The author presents six environmental principles that are fundamental to base closure. They are: remediation not clean up; remediation will impact reuse; reuse will impact remediation; remediation and reuse must be coordinated; environmental contamination must be evaluated as any other initial physical constraint on development, not as an overlay after plans are created; and remediation will impact development, financing and marketability.
- OSTI ID:
- 78078
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9404125-; TRN: IM9531%%128
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: HazMat West `94 spring meeting: environmental management and technology conference and exhibition, Long Beach, CA (United States), 26-28 Apr 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of HazMat 94 West/Spring. Second annual environmental management and technology conference West/Spring: Proceedings; PB: 390 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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