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Washington Navy Yard case study report and site description
Case study report on asbestos and the Washington Navy Yard site.
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The Washington Navy Yard site is the oldest continuously operated Navy facility in the United States. It currently occupies 71.5 acres in the southeastern portion of the District. It is bordered by the Anacostia River to the south, the Southeast Federal Center to the west, and public housing to the north.
Since the 1800s, the Navy Yard was used for research and industrial activity. But in 1995, the base was designated as a Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) gaining facility, with Navy employees moving into the facility from other military locations that are being closed.
In January 1997, the Navy completed an environmental investigation of the Navy Yard’s facilities, under EPA oversight. During this review, the Navy environmental section provided recommendations on precautions that must be taken to ensure that the buildings are safe for occupancy.
As a part of this effort, the incinerator area at the Navy Yard had hazardous wastes removed during the summer of 1998. The site was listed on the National Priorities List (NPL) as a hazardous waste site in 1998.
EPA Region 3 issued a Resource Conservation Recovery Act (RCRA) 7003 order, effective July 16, 1997. This order required the Navy to perform certain removals as interim measures under Superfund procedures, conduct further studies, and clean up the site based on the results of the studies.
The RCRA order remained in effect until EPA and the Department of the Navy signed a final Superfund Interagency Agreement on June 30, 1999. The agreement closed out the RCRA order and put EPA’s Superfund program in charge of regulating the Washington Navy Yard site.
Courtesy of the EPA
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