McCLELLAN, CA—Governor Edmund Brown as approved the transfer of 528 acres of land at the former McClellan Air Force Base near Sacramento, to McClellan Business Park. The transfer includes a variety of industrial facilities, office buildings, and vacant land and will include privatized remediation of environmental damage

The transfer will use an innovative and complex multi-agency agreement referred to as an “early transfer with privatized cleanup” and relies on two key provisions:

1) a negotiated cost agreement stipulating how much the Air Force will pay to Sacramento

County, and the developer, for remaining environmental cleanup.

2) a Federal Facility Agreement Amendment stating that the U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency, rather than the Air Force, will assume the lead role of determining remaining cleanup

decisions in collaboration with State agencies.

“This is another major milestone for the cleanup and redevelopment of McClellan,” said Jared Blumenfeld, EPA's Regional Administrator for the Pacific Southwest. “Collaboration among regulatory agencies, the Air Force, Sacramento County and McClellan Park has once again proven a successful model putting former military sites into productive reuse for the benefit of the local community.”

The 528 acres, located primarily in the industrial sections of McClellan Park, have contamination from past industrial practices while the base served as a supply and repair depot from 1936 until it closed in 2001.

Prior to transfer, the Air Force conducted extensive environmental investigations of the properties, reviewed their past uses, and assessed the contaminants present. These studies formed the basis of the negotiated $24.8 million, fixed-price, insured cleanup cost the Air Force will pay to Sacramento County.

This will be the third early transfer with privatized cleanup at McClellan. In 2007, the Air Force transferred 62 acres to McClellan Business Park through Sacramento County. This was the first approved privatization of an NPL site in the nation and set the path for future privations of the remaining acreage at the former base. Completion of Remedial

Negotiations for the fourth and final early transfer with privatized cleanup are underway.

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