Brunswick NAS - Environmental Science Services Phase 2
Abstract
The Midcoast Regional redevelopment Authority (MRRA) is the OEA recognized implementation Local Redevelopment Authority for redevelopment of the former Brunswick Naval Air Station. The Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority, a component unit of the State of Maine, is a municipal corporation created by Maine law, 5 MRSA ยง13083-G, and charged with the responsibility to acquire and manage property at the former Naval Air Station Brunswick (NAS Brunswick) and the Topsham Annex and to facilitate the rapid redevelopment of properties in order to recover from economic and employment loss as result of base closure decision in 2005. The first meeting of the MRRA Board of Trustees was held on September 27, 2007. MRRA built its business plan and Economic Development Conveyance request on the assumption that property transfers would likely be completed by the end of 2017, at the time funds from OEA would be phased out. With the recent information on PFASs and the delay in transfers, the net effect that MRRA is faced with two issues: 1) buildings and land leases and sales to support redevelopment and revenue generation for MRRA to pick up a greater share of staff wages and benefits as we lose OEA funds will not become available, and 2) the continued responsibility for one of our staff positions to support the coordination and representation of MRRA with the Navy, EPA, MaineDEP, the and the Restoration Advisory Board on environmental issues at Brunswick Landing. The funded work plan has been impacted significantly by the amount of time that staff has had to spend on dealing with the perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) issue (includes both PFOA and PFOS) in discussion and negotiations with the Navy and environmental regulators regarding environmental land use controls that are being considered and the impact upon our reuse plan. In addition, MRRA has also had to revise plans and budgets on infrastructure projects where there is contact with groundwater in suspected areas of PFAS contamination across the campus. Just this past fiscal year, a sewer project had an unbudgeted and funded liability of over $225,000 to remediate groundwater through a filtration process to bring the ground water to drinking water standards and then discharge back into the aquifer. This budget request and extension would build on the approved Work Plan contained in the the FY 2018 OEA Grant, which includes scientific, environmental and/or engineering consulting services to support our understanding of the work of the Navy and environmental regulators on dealing with what had been commonly referred to as perflourinated compounds (PFCs) at Brunswick Landing, the impact on our Reuse Master Plan, the financial and business plan considered in the preparation of Economic Development Conveyance application.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Feb 04, 2020
- Source ID
- HQ00051810021
Entities
People
- Jeffrey Jordan
Organizations
- Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority
- Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation
- Office of the Secretary of Defense