2005 Environmental Conference June 29, 2005 Successes in Partnering Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection 2005 Environmental Conference June 29, 2005

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BLUEGRASS STATE

Department of Defense Installations in Kentucky Fort Campbell Fort Knox Bluegrass Army Depot BRAC Sites Naval Ordnance Station – Louisville Lexington Bluegrass Army Depot

Fort Campbell Fort Campbell is the home of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), known as the Screaming Eagles. Their primary weapons systems are infantry, aviation, field artillery, and air defense artillery. Ft. Campbell occupies ~105,000 acres on the Kentucky-Tennessee border. The cantonment occupies approximately 12,000 acres in Kentucky in the northeast part of the Post. The remaining portion of the Post is dedicated to training and firing ranges. With more than 4,100 housing units, Ft. Campbell supports the 3rd largest military population in the Army and the 7th largest in the Department of Defense. Additionally, the installation provides support services to family members, National Guard and Reserve units, and retirees. FOUNDATION Major accomplishments, past five years: Establishment of a regulator approved watershed management plan allows integration of INRMP projects and measure project success in coordination with mission readiness and training goals. Establishment of an industry-leading P2 Operation Center. Major accomplishments/projects planned for next five years: Completion of installation-wide unit environmental internal assessments and update of the IAP. Replace current dry cleaning machines w/ silicone based dry cleaning systems. - Awards/recognition: See separate listing. Modularity status: Conducting LBP and asbestos surveys in housing units. Environmental training/awareness program: 40 hour EQO course for all unit environmental poc’s. Compliance training done as separate classes, in combination with other training, or sometimes as on-the-spot opportunities. NEPA: Modularity EA, RPTS EIS, Force Protection EA.

Fort Knox Fort Knox is a U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command installation with the primary mission of training soldiers for the Armor Force. The Armor School is the rock on which the Armor Center mission is built. Its staff sections, directorates, and units provide the personnel, equipment, and guidance needed to train in the development of its doctrine. The bestl-known landmark at Fort Knox is the U.S. Bullion Depository, better known as the Gold Vault. Fort Knox is a certified Kentucky city, covering 109,054 acres or about 170.4 square miles. It is the seventh largest urban community in the Commonwealth, with a day-time population of about 33,000. There are 18 training areas just inside the perimeter of Fort Knox where the Army conducts both vehicle-based and on-foot training. Half of the reservation, about 21,332 ha, is an impact area for ordnance where only Army personnel are permitted. Almost all of the floodplains surrounding the Salt River and Rolling Fork lie within this central impact area. FOUNDATION: Major accomplishments, past five years: MPDTRC EIS prepared and completed in-house at considerable savings INRMP, ICRMP, and IPMP all completed and signed Partnering (Tier 1 Team) successful for over five years Major accomplishments/projects planned for next five years: Fill upcoming vacancies and adjust/balence grade structure of staff Complete Urban Forestry Plan and proactively manage for a healthy urban forest Fully support RCI and other utility privatization efforts EMS (ESMS) Program On-Track

Bluegrass Army Depot Located within the heart of Blue Grass country (think race horses, tobacco) in Kentucky, just minutes south of Lexington, lies the town of Richmond, Home of Eastern Kentucky University. Richmond is also home to the Blue Grass Army Depot. The depot, consisting of 15,000 acres of conventional ammunition storage for the Armed Forces, is also home to the Blue Grass Chemical Activity. BGAD's mission is to provide munitions, chemical defense equipment and special operations support to the Department of Defense. The depot's main mission is to provide munitions, chemical material surveillance, and Special Operations support to the Department of Defense. Many Reserve and National Guard units train at the depot requirements.

Bluegrass Army Depot The conventional ammunition area consists of 852 igloos filled with ammunition with several tons additionally stored outside. The Depot's mission of conventional munitions has remained very active since World War II. Located within the heart of this highly secure area is the chemical limited area (CLA), with even more security.

Chemical Demilitarization Chemical neutralization of nerve agents Benefits of partnering - Permitting on track - Ongoing dialogue with Army, Contractors, other Federal and State Agencies, Public - Allows for more effective regulatory oversight Chemical weapons have been stored at Blue Grass since 1944, with shipment of more modern chemical agent and weapons arriving until the mid-sixties. Blue Grass stores 523 tons, approximately 1.7 percent, of the original US stockpile of chemical weapons. The stockpile consists of projectiles and rockets containing nerve agents GB (Sarin) and VX, and mustard or blister agent. Projectiles come in two sizes and can contain one of three different agents. There are about 30,000 projectiles in the BGCA stockpile. M55, 115mm, rockets have either GB or VX nerve agent. There are about 70,000 of these highly explosive, assembled chemical weapons stored at Blue Grass Chemical Activity. These rockets present the greatest risk associated with the storage of chemical weapons. The U.S. Army had planned to construct a state-of-the-art incinerator at Blue Grass Chemical Activity to eliminate the stockpile. In an ongoing effort to ensure the Army is using the best disposal technology available, a congressional mandate in December 1996, established the Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment program to examine the destruction of assembled chemical weapons, such as bombs and missiles, currently stored at stockpile sites across the United States.

Naval Ordnance Station Louisville

Lexington Bluegrass Army Depot In 1964, the Blue Grass Ordnance Depot (located in Richmond, Kentucky) merged with the Lexington Signal Depot (located in Lexington, Kentucky) to form Lexington-Blue Grass Army Depot. Lexington-Blue Grass Army Depot operated until 1992, providing ammunition and general supply support and maintaining communications and electronics equipment. In response to a Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission decision in 1988, the federal government directed that the Lexington facility close by 1995. In 1992, the general supply and maintenance mission that the Lexington facility had undertaken ended. The Richmond Facility has since been renamed the Bluegrass Army Depot. The Lexington Facility has effectively transitioned to an operational success with leasing buildings and installation management support provided by the Commonwealth of Kentucky Department of Military Affairs.

Successes with BRAC Sites NOSL went from base closure listing to final transfer (2004) in less than 9 years – extremely fast in comparison to other base closure sites LBAD put on BRAC list in 1988; final transfer by end of 2005

Conclusions Partnering requires buy in to team approach Partnering requires effort of everyone Partnering requires patience Partnering requires new ways of thinking about established processes PARTNERING DOES WORK