Page 3 of the PAERAB's September 2004 TAPP Contractor Newsletter

Text Box: On July 26th Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Installations and Environment Raymond F. DuBois visited the base along with Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen. DuBois met with key staff at Picatinny and toured the base. The undersecretary oversees base realignment and reuse and commented that it was yet too early to tell which bases and

Text Box: how many bases would be affected but that all were being examined. BRAC stands for Base Realignment and Closure. Periodically the Department of Defense examines its facilities to determine their value in the system. The last BRAC was in 1995. BRAC 2005 is now underway. Final selection criteria for retention of facilities

Text Box: were published in February 2004. The Secretary of Defense is required to submit recommendations for realignments and closures to the BRAC commission by May 2005. The BRAC commission holds regional meetings to solicit public input. The commission then forwards its report on the recommendations to the President in September 2005. The President has

Text Box: for trichloroethene (TCE). Concentrations are in units of milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg) or parts per

Text Box: For example, provided below are the values for the various proposed “generic soil remediation standards”

Text Box: million (ppm). Current values for TCE are as follows: Residential - 23 mg/kg;

Text Box: reporter assigned to cover Picatinny, reported that Picatinny was once a “true arsenal, producing and storing weapons for over 70 years.” The site was purchased by the Army in the 1880s for use as a black powder storage facility. The phaseout of

Text Box: manufacturing began in 1977. Now the site is the home to the Army’s center for research and development. The post’s commanding officer submitted the request for a name change to Army officials in September.

Text Box: The Star-Ledger reported on September 24, 2004 that Picatinny may drop “Arsenal” from the name. Ted Gabel, the Environmental Project Manager for Picatinny, had mentioned the potential name change at the last RAB meeting in July 2004. Kristen Alloway, the

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until September 23, 2005 to accept or reject the recommendations in their entirety. Then the recommendations go to Congress where they may be rejected in their entirety or they become binding. Additional information on the BRAC process including selection criteria can be found at www.dod.gov/brac.

Non-residential - 54 mg/kg; and IGW - 1 mg/kg.

Ingestion-Dermal

Inhalation

Impact to Groundwater

(IGW)

Practical

Quantitation

Limit (PQL)

Residential

Non-residential

Residential

Non-residential.

< 2 acres

Non-residential.

> 2 acres

21

100

9

15

15

0.006

0.8