The Navy's Environmental Program in the Southwest; Challenges for FY20+
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NAVFAC SOUTHWEST The Navy’s Environmental Program in the Southwest; Challenges for FY20+ San Diego Environmental Professionals (SDEP) 12 November 2019 Derral Van Winkle, PG Environmental Remediation PLL NAVFAC Southwest NAVFAC SW Leadership and Management • Commanding Officer -- CAPT OESTERICHER −Executive Officer – CAPT Jeffery Powell −Business Director – Kathy Stewart −Operations Officer – CAPT Laurie Scott • Environmental BLL / N45 Shore EV Program Manager – Brian Gordon −EV1 Env. Compliance PLL -- Kathie Beverly −EV2 Env. Planning and Conservation PLL -- Connie Moen (acting) −EV3 Env. Restoration PLL -- Derral Van Winkle −EV4 Env. Resources and Assessment PLL -- Delphine Lee Notes: BLL – Business Line Leader PLL – Product Line Leader 2 NAVFAC Southwest 11/11/2019 Navy Region Southwest NRSW by the numbers: Naval Air Station Fallon • 10 Installations Naval • 189 Special Areas Support Naval Air Station Lemoore • 11,000 buildings / structures Activity • 42 Piers / Wharves Monterey • 19 Runways Naval Air Weapons Station China • 61 Hangars Lake • 1.8 M acres Naval Base Ventura County •Port Hueneme Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach • $800M annual budget •Point Mugu •Det Corona • 10,000 employees •San Nicolas Island (SNI) •Det Fallbrook •Fort Hunter Liggett • 325,000 customers Naval Base Point Loma • 17 NOSCs •SUBASE • 8 Small Arms Ranges •Old Town Complex •Harbor Drive Annex Naval Air Facility El Centro NAVAL Base Coronado Naval Base San Diego •NASNI •Broadway Complex •NAB •Naval Medical Center San Diego •NOLF Imperial Beach •NALF San Clemente island (SCI) •Silver Strand Training Complex (Coastal Campus) •Camp Michael Monsoor MWTC La Posta •RTSWS Warner Springs 3 NAVFAC Southwest 11/11/2019 MCIWEST Region Overview 4 NAVFAC Southwest 11/11/2019 NAVFAC Southwest Navy Installation - 10 ROICC Travis Marine Corps - 8 Installation PWD Fallon (BOS) ROICC San Francisco Bay Air Force Base - 1 ROICC Bridgeport PWD Lemoore PWD Monterey PWD China Lake ROICC 29 Palms PWD Ventura County PWD Seal Beach ROICC Barstow ROICC Miramar OICC MCI West ROICC Camp Pendleton MCAS Camp Pendleton ROICC Yuma PWD Coronado PWD San Diego PWD Point Loma PWD El Centro (BOS) MCRD 5 NAVFAC Southwest 11/11/2019 Train Locally, Operate Globally All carrier air wings train in Southwest Fallon 67% of the nation’s airspace military training airspace is in the NOCAL Southwest Range Monterey Lemoore All West Coast China Lake Strike Groups & Expeditionary Pt. Mugu Ventura County Range Strike Groups Seal Beach El Centro train in ranges off San California Nicolas San Diego Island San Clemente Island SOCAL Range 6 NAVFAC Southwest Environmental Areas of Responsibility Environmental Quality Programs –Environmental Compliance & Services –Environmental Planning –Environmental Assessments & Special Programs –Natural and Cultural Resources including Marine Biology Environmental Restoration Program –Chemical, radiological, and munitions cleanup 7 NAVFAC Southwest 11/11/2019 EV1 - Environmental Compliance and Services •Compliance •Environmental Management • Clean Air Act Systems • Clean Water Act - NPDES •Laboratory Services • Safe Drinking Water Act •Non-hazardous waste (FKA •Oil and Hazardous Substance sustainable solid waste) Management • Chemical and oil spill response and •Technology Support cleanup • NESDI • Hazardous and Industrial waste • ESTCP handling, transportation, storage • SERDP and disposal • Lead paint, PCB and asbestos abatement • Oily waste pickup and recycling/disposal 8 NAVFAC Southwest 11/11/2019 EV2 – Environmental Planning and Conservation 9 NAVFAC Southwest 11/11/2019 EV3 – Environmental Restoration 10 NAVFAC Southwest 11/11/2019 EV4 – Environmental Resources and Assessment •Budget development •Resource management •Community management •EMS management and consultation •Metrics development and assessment •Operational Range Sustainment •Resource Allocation Plan support •Environmental Quality and Environmental Restoration program analyses 11 NAVFAC Southwest 11/11/2019 Regulatory Compliance Context Majority of SW Navy and Marine Corps installations are in California California has aggressive, multi-level air, water, and other media regulatory agencies Regulations, rules, and permits are more stringent than Federal requirements. High number of environmental bills, rules, and permits proposed each year Level of regulatory oversight is evidenced by the high number of inspection days, environmental permits, and reporting requirements CA regulatory context leads to high environmental restoration, compliance, and conservation costs 12 NAVFAC Southwest 11/11/2019 Environmental Program Execution ($M) FY18 EXECUTION - $302M FY14-18 Execution FY19 Projected Execution ($276M) NWCF 23 350 BRAC 130 EQ 94 23 300 15 15 17 17 15 250 ERN 55 96 94 84 95 200 88 116 150 55 55 67 57 62 EQ 100 57 Detail Range 10 123 130 50 96 99 108 68 NEPA 12 0 EC 43 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19 CR 5 BRAC ERN EQ NWCF NWCF execution totals are about 2X the amount shown CN 24 above but have been reduced to avoid double-counting Data contained herein is based on the best available information and is subject to change 13 NAVFAC Southwest 11/11/2019 Environmental Focus Areas/Challenges 1. Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake Earth Quake Recovery 2. National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Timelines • Environmental Assessments (EA) – 1 year or less, Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) – 2 years or less 3. Increased scrutiny by regulatory agencies – more enforcement 4. AFFF Replacement and PFAS investigations 5. Air permits with broader coverage and additional documentation requirements 6. Staffing challenges 7. Organizational Changes in the NAVY • Navy Working Capital Fund (NWCF) Transfer to General Fund • Single Budget Submitting Office for Shore Facilities 14 NAVFAC Southwest 11/11/2019 PFAS Overview – Background •Emerging contaminant –No Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) regulatory standards • EPA issued a non-regulatory lifetime health advisory (LHA) for PFOA and PFOS in drinking water –Not currently regulated under Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) or Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) –Number of “total” PFAS compounds keeps climbing • PFOA/PFOS • USEPA current targeted list is 18 compounds • Potentially thousands of compounds in the group or class –Limited toxicological information available –Limited EPA standard analytical methods –Wide number of products that can be source • => multiple potential exposure pathways 15 NAVFAC Southwest 11/11/2019 Why DON is responding to PFAS? •DON used –Aqueous Fire Fighting Foam (AFFF) includes PFOA/PFOS –Other industrial processes also sources •Growing national interest in potential health effects from exposure •DON priorities: –Address PFOA/PFOS to protect personnel living and working on our installations –Protect the surrounding communities that have been potentially impacted •Environmental and biological persistence –Distributed worldwide in animals and humans •EPA Office of Water has issued Administrative Orders based on their Lifetime Health Advisory (LHA) 16 NAVFAC Southwest 11/11/2019 DON PFAS Comprehensive Strategy Addresses issues in the following areas: •Drinking water on DON active installations •Assessing completed pathways for drinking water off active installation •DON cleanup program –DON active and BRAC installations with history of use –Groundwater evaluation by conducting installation wide Preliminary Assessment/Site Inspection and continue CERCLA process •AFFF Replacement •RISK COMMUNICATION throughout the process is critical DON Communication Website: http://www.secnav.navy.mil/eie/pages/pfc-pfas.aspx Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), 1980; Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA), 1986; National Contingency Plan (NCP) as amended 1990 17 NAVFAC Southwest 11/11/2019 Applicable Policies •DoD Policy, Investigating Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances within the Department of Defense Cleanup Program, October 15, 2019 •DoD Instruction 4715.06, Environmental Compliance in the United States,” May 4, 2015 •DoD Instruction 4715. 07, “Defense Environmental Restoration Program,” May 21, 2013 •DoD Instruction 4715.18, “Emerging Contaminants (ECs),” June 11, 2009 •DoD Manual 4715.20, “Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP) Management,” March 9, 2012 •ASD(EI&E) Memorandum, “Testing DoD Drinking Water for Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) and Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA),” June 10, 2016 •Emerging Contaminant Governance Council Meeting Results January 28, 2016 These are consistent with CERCLA, NCP, DERP Statute (10 U.S.C. 2701), and SDWA 18 NAVFAC Southwest 11/11/2019 Drinking Water on Our Installations •Completed unregulated contaminant monitoring rule (UCMR) 3 testing and reporting in December 2015 •DON has tested for PFOS/PFOA where DON supplies drinking water –Completed sampling and testing of all DON drinking water systems for PFOS/PFOA •In SW, DON has identified a drinking water system where DON is the water supplier, which tested above the LHA –DON is following the USEPA advisory recommended actions to include taking wells off line and providing alternative drinking water –These actions break the exposure pathway •Where DON is not the drinking water supplier, installations are encouraged to ask if their drinking water suppliers have tested the drinking water and determine if the results are below the LHAs DON has taken proactive steps to provide clean drinking water on our installations 19 NAVFAC Southwest 11/11/2019 Assessing