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BRAC 2005

Base Realignment and Closure

The Bush Administration has proposed closing 180 military installations in the U.S. and hopes to save about $50 billion over a 20 year period. The proposal has to be approved by Congress. The Pentagon plans to close 33 major military bases and realign 29 others in order to operate more efficiently. The proposed changes would take place between 2007 and 2011.

 

Many military facilities are contaminated with hazardous wastes. Stakeholders should search for the pollutnants at the bases in their areas if redevelopment includes residential or commercial projects.

Walter Reed Army Medical Center is on the closure list. Published reports state that the Pentagon is considering military housing on the site. If so, AAEA research indicates that the site will have to be cleaned up because it is on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's list of CERCLIS sites in the District of Columbia. Walter Reed is a 113 acre site in Northwest Washington, DC located at 6826 16th Street, NW (between 16th and Georgia Avenues), 20305-5001. The population around Walter Reed is approximately 84% African American. Walter Reed, founded in 1909 in Washington, DC, is the military's most famous hospital.

Pollution at Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Facility

Ward

  

Pounds
       
Walter Reed Army Medical Center

4

 1,Waste, Acetone 98
6825 16th Street, NW   2.Waste, Ethyl Ether 11
Washington, DC  20305-5001   3.Waste Ethanol Solutions 4,473
    4.Waste Ethyl Acetate 39
1994 Hazardous Waste Report   5.Waste Ethylene Dichloride 1
    6.Waste Isopropanol 101
    7.Waste Methanol 572
    8.Waste Xylenes 582
    9.Waste Dinitrophenol 16
    10.Waste Flammable Solid 1
    11.Waste Ammonia Persulfate 1
    12.Waste Oxidizing Substances; Chromium, Lead 30
    13.Waste Silver Nitrate 34
    14.Waste Sodium Nitrate 1
    15.Waste Sodium Nitrate 2
    16.Waste Dichloromethane 2
    17.Waste Mercuric Nitrate 3
    18.Waste Nitrophenols 1
    19.Waste Phenol 15
    20.Waste Potassium Cyanide 1
    21.Waste Sodium Azide 25
    22.Waste Sodium Cyanide 1
    23.Waste Caustic Alkali, Liquids 1,000
    24.Waste Caustic Alkali, Liquids 107
    25.Waste Aluminum Chloride 2
    26.Waste Corrosive Liquids 550
    27.Waste Corrosive Liquids; Chromium, Chloroform 634
    28.Waste Formic Acid 25
    29.Waste Mixed Acid 25
    30.Waste Phosphoric Acid 1
    31.Waste Phosphorus Rentoxide 8
    32.Waste Sodium Hydroxide Solution 21
    33.Waste Nitrating Acid Mixtures, Spent 28
    34.Waste Titanium Tetrachloride 1
    35.Waste Perchloric Acid 13
    36.Waste Benzidine; Diamine Biphenyl 1
    37.Waste Chloroform 85
    38.Waste Compressed Gases, Flammable 10
    39.Waste Denatured Alcohol 572
    40.Waste Flammable Liquid; Chloroform 15,205
    41.Waste Mercury Compounds, Liquid; Silver 19
    42.Waste Mercury Compounds, Solid 2,025
    43.Waste Nitric Acid 15
    44.Waste Acrylamide 2
    45.Waste Cresols 2
    46.Waste Di-(tert Butylpercxy) Phthalate 13
    47. Waste N.N-Dimethyl Formamide 113
    48.Waste Osmium Tetroxide 30
    49.Waste Ammonium Sulfide Solution 2
    50.Waste Acetic Acid, Clacial 1
    Waste Mercury; Silver 694
    52.Waste Poisonous Liquids; Arsenic Acid, 3
       Dinitrophenol  
    53.Waste Water Reactive Solid 2
    54.Waste Corrosive Liquid, Flammable 40
    55.Waste Corrosive Liquid, Poisonous; Mercury 1
    56.Waste Flammable Liquids, Corrosive 100
    57.Waste Flammable Liquid, Corrosive 17
    58.Waste Poisonous Liquids, Flammable 2
    59.Waste Hydrogen Peroxide Aqueous Solutions 37
    60.Waste Batteries Dry, Containing Potassium 12
       Hydroxide, Solid; Cadmium  
    61.Waste Environmentally Hazardous Substance, 794
       Solid; Lead, Silver  
    62.Waste Environmentally Hazardous Substance, 340
       Liquid; Lead  
    63. Waste Environmentally Hazardous Substance, 411
       Liquid  
    64. Waste Corrosive Liquids, Oxidizing 920
    65.Waste Corrosive Liquids, Oxidizing 8
    66.Waste Oxidizing Substance, Liquid 20
    67.Waste Oxidizing Substances, Liquid; Chromium 25
    68.Waste Selenium Compound 25
       
    TOTAL 29,971

Source: Our Unfair Share II: Pollution in Washington, DC, 1998, 'CERCLIS Sites in the District of Columbia,' African American Environmentalist Association, Friends of the Earth.

The Pentagon projects savings of hundreds of millions of dollarsby closing Walter Reed.

BRAC 2005 Closure and Realignment Impacts by State

Pentagon List of Recommended Military Base, Facility Closings

Alabama

  1. Abbott U.S. Army Reserve Center, Tuskegee
  2. Anderson U.S. Army Reserve Center, Troy
  3. Armed Forces Reserve Center, Mobile
  4. BG William P. Screws U.S. Army Reserve Center, Montgomery
  5. Fort Ganey Army National Guard Reserve Center, Mobile
  6. Fort Hanna Army National Guard Reserve Center, Birmingham
  7. Gary U.S. Army Reserve Center, Enterprise
  8. Navy Recruiting District Headquarters, Montgomery
  9. Navy Reserve Center, Tuscaloosa
  10. The Adjutant General Bldg, AL Army National Guard, Montgomery
  11. Wright U.S. Army Reserve Center

Alaska

  1. Kulis Air Guard Station

Arizona

  1. Air Force Research Lab, Mesa
  2. Allen Hall Armed Forces Reserve Center, Tucson

Arkansas

  1. El Dorado Armed Forces Reserve Center
  2. Stone U.S. Army Reserve Center, Pine Bluff

California

  1. Armed Forces Reserve Center Bell
  2. Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Oakland
  3. Defense Finance and Accounting Service, San Bernardino
  4. Defense Finance and Accounting Service, San Diego
  5. Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Seaside
  6. Naval Support Activity Corona
  7. Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, Detachment Concord
  8. Navy-Marine Corps Reserve Center, Encino
  9. Navy-Marine Corps Reserve Center, Los Angeles
  10. Onizuka Air Force Station
  11. Riverbank Army Ammunition Plant

Connecticut

  1. Sgt. Libby U.S. Army Reserve Center, New Haven
  2. Submarine Base New London
  3. Turner U.S. Army Reserve Center, Fairfield
  4. U.S. Army Reserve Center Maintenance Support Facility, Middletown

Delaware

  1. Kirkwood U.S. Army Reserve Center, Newark

Florida

  1. Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Orlando
  2. Navy Reserve Center, St. Petersburg

Georgia

  1. Fort Gillem
  2. Fort McPherson
  3. Inspector/Instructor, Rome
  4. Naval Air Station Atlanta
  5. Naval Supply Corps School, Athens
  6. U.S. Army Reserve Center, Columbus

Hawaii

  1. Army National Guard Reserve Center, Honokaa

Idaho

  1. Navy Reserve Center, Pocatello

Illinois

  1. Armed Forces Reserve Center, Carbondale
  2. Navy Reserve Center, Forest Park

Indiana

  1. Navy Marine Corps Reserve Center, Grissom Air Reserve Base, Bunker Hill
  2. Navy Recruiting District Headquarters, Indianapolis
  3. Navy Reserve Center, Evansville
  4. Newport Chemical Depot
  5. U.S. Army Reserve Center, Lafayette
  6. U.S. Army Reserve Center, Seston

Iowa

  1. Navy Reserve Center, Cedar Rapids
  2. Navy Reserve Center, Sioux City
  3. Navy-Marine Corps Reserve Center, Dubuque

Kansas

  1. Kansas Army Ammunition Plant

Kentucky

  1. Army National Guard Reserve Center, Paducah
  2. Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Lexington
  3. Navy Reserve Center, Lexington
  4. U.S. Army Reserve Center, Louisville
  5. U.S. Army Reserve Center, Maysville

Louisiana

  1. Baton Rouge Army National Guard Reserve Center
  2. Naval Support Activity, New Orleans
  3. Navy-Marine Corps Reserve Center, Baton Rouge
  4. Roberts U.S. Army Reserve Center, Baton Rouge

Maine

  1. Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Limestone
  2. Naval Reserve Center, Bangor
  3. Naval Shipyard Portsmouth

Maryland

  1. Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Patuxent River
  2. Navy Reserve Center, Adelphi
  3. Pfc. Flair U.S. Army Reserve Center, Frederick

Massachusetts

  1. Malony U.S. Army Reserve Center
  2. Otis Air Guard Base
  3. Westover U.S. Army Reserve Center, Citopee

Michigan

  1. Navy Reserve Center Marquette
  2. Parisan U.S. Army Reserve Center, Lansing
  3. Selfridge Army Activity
  4. W.K. Kellogg Airport Air Guard Station

Minnesota

  1. Navy Reserve Center Duluth

Mississippi

  1. Mississippi Army Ammunition Plant
  2. Naval Station, Pascagoula
  3. U.S. Army Reserve Center, Vicksburg

Missouri

  1. Army National Guard Reserve Center, Jefferson Barracks
  2. Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Kansas City
  3. Defense Finance and Accounting Service, St. Louis
  4. Marine Corps Support Center, Kansas City
  5. Navy Recruiting District Headquarters, Kansas
  6. Navy Reserve Center, Cape Girardeau

Montana

  1. Galt Hall U.S. Army Reserve Center, Great Falls

Nebraska

  1. Army National Guard Reserve Center, Columbus
  2. Army National Guard Reserve Center, Grand Island
  3. Army National Guard Reserve Center, Kearny
  4. Naval Recruiting District Headquarters, Omaha
  5. Navy Reserve Center, Lincoln

Nevada

  1. Hawthorne Army Depot

New Hampshire

  1. Doble U.S. Army Reserve Center, Portsmouth
  2. Naval Shipyard Portsmouth

New Jersey

  1. Fort Monmouth
  2. Inspector/Instructor Center, West Trenton
  3. Kilmer U.S. Army Reserve Center, Edison

New Mexico

  1. Cannon Air Force Base
  2. Jenkins Armed Forces Reserve Center, Albuquerque

New York

  1. Armed Forces Reserve Center, Amityville
  2. Army National Guard Reserve Center, Niagra Falls
  3. Carpenter U.S. Army Reserve Center, Poughkeepsie
  4. Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Rome
  5. Navy Recruiting District Headquarters, Buffalo
  6. Navy Reserve Center Glenn Falls
  7. Navy Reserve Center Horsehead
  8. Navy Reserve Center Watertown
  9. Niagra Falls International Airport Air Guard Station

North Carolina

  1. Navy Reserve Center, Asheville
  2. Niven U.S. Army Reserve Center, Albermarle

Ohio

  1. Army National Guard Reserve Center, Mansfield
  2. Army National Guard Reserve Center, Westerville
  3. Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Dayton
  4. Mansfield Lahm Municipal Airport Air Guard Station
  5. Navy-Marine Corps Reserve Center, Akron
  6. Navy-Marine Corps Reserve Center, Cleveland
  7. Parrott U.S. Army Reserve Center, Kenton
  8. U.S. Army Reserve Center, Whitehall

Oklahoma

  1. Armed Forces Reserve Center Broken Arrow
  2. Armed Forces Reserve Center Muskogee
  3. Army National Guard Reserve Center Tishomingo
  4. Krowse U.S. Army Reserve Center, Oklahoma City
  5. Navy-Marine Corps Reserve Center, Tulsa
  6. Oklahoma City (95th)

Pennsylvania

  1. Bristol
  2. Engineering Field Activity Northeast
  3. Kelly Support Center
  4. Naval Air Station Willow Grove
  5. Navy-Marine Corps Reserve Center, Reading
  6. North Penn U.S. Army Reserve Center, Morristown
  7. Pittsburgh International Airport Air Reserve Station
  8. Serrenti U.S. Army Reserve Center, Scranton
  9. U.S. Army Reserve Center Bloomsburg
  10. U.S. Army Reserve Center Lewisburg
  11. U.S. Army Reserve Center Williamsport
  12. W. Reese U.S. Army Reserve Center/OMS, Chester

Puerto Rico

  1. Army National Guard Reserve Center, Humacao
  2. Lavergne U.S. Army Reserve Center, Bayamon

Rhode Island

  1. Harwood U.S. Army Reserve Center, Providence
  2. USARC Bristol

South Carolina

  1. Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Charleston
  2. South Naval Facilities Engineering Command

South Dakota

  1. Ellsworth Air Force Base

Tennessee

  1. U.S. Army Reserve Area Maintenance Support Facility, Kingsport

Texas

  1. Army National Guard Reserve Center No. 2, Dallas
  2. Army National Guard Reserve Center (Hondo Pass), El Paso
  3. Army National Guard Reserve Center, California Crossing
  4. Army National Guard Reserve Center, Ellington
  5. Army National Guard Reserve Center, Lufkin
  6. Army National Guard Reserve Center, Marshall
  7. Army National Guard Reserve Center, New Braunfels
  8. Brooks City Base
  9. Defense Finance and Accounting Service, San Antonio
  10. Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant
  11. Naval Station, Ingleside
  12. Navy Reserve Center, Lubbock
  13. Navy Reserve Center, Orange
  14. Red River Army Depot
  15. U.S. Army Reserve Center No. 2, Houston

Utah

  1. Deseret Chemical Depot

Virginia

  1. Fort Monroe

Washington

  1. 1LT Richard H. Walker U.S. Army Reserve Center
  2. Army National Guard Reserve Center, Everett
  3. Navy-Marine Corps Reserve Center, Tacoma
  4. U.S. Army Reserve Center, Fort Lawton
  5. Vancouver Barracks

West Virginia

  1. Bias U.S. Army Reserve Center, Huntington
  2. Fairmont U.S. Army Reserve Center
  3. Navy-Marine Corps Reserve Center, Moundsville

Wisconsin

  1. Gen. Mitchell International Airport ARS
  2. Navy Reserve Center, La Crosse
  3. Navy-Marine Corps Reserve Center, Madison
  4. Olson U.S. Army Reserve Center, Madison
  5. U.S. Army Reserve Center, O'Connell

Wyoming

  1. Army Aviation Support Facility, Cheyenne
  2. Army National Guard Reserve Center, Thermopolis