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As the primary launch site for the U.S.
Space Program, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), has long been engaged
in a wide variety of operations that are an integral part of
the NASA primary mission. These operations involved the use
of toxic and hazardous materials. Federal, state, and local
governments have developed strict regulations that require
disposers of hazardous waste to identify the locations and
contents of past disposal sites and to take actions to eliminate
any hazards in an environmentally responsible manner. NASA-KSC
has a program to evaluate sites where contamination is present
under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. (RCRA) and
its Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA). A list of
current sites is found on the left navigation bar.
KSC's remediation program has its roots
in two Consent Orders (no longer open) issued by the Florida
Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) in the late 1980s
for KSC's oldest remediation sites, Wilson Corners (now Solid
Waste Management Unit (SWMU) #1 and Ransom Road Landfill (now
SWMU #3). KSC also operates a permitted Hazardous Waste Storage
Facility under Subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act (RCRA). As a result, with the RCRA Hazardous and
Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA) in 1984 came the requirement
to identify potential release sites and implement corrective
action at those sites as warranted. The HSWA portion of KSC's
RCRA permit was issued by the EPA in 1986 and was renewed in
1997. EPA since delegated corrective action authority to the
FDEP and KSC's HSWA permit with FDEP was executed in 2002.
EPA's SWMU Assessment initially identified
16 sites for investigation under the corrective action program.
Additional sites were also identified by KSC as the program
was implemented. In addition to corrective action sites, KSC's
remediation program office also manages petroleum contamination
sites under Chapter 62-770 of the Florida Administrative Code.
To date, KSC has identified and/or investigated 200 sites located
on KSC or Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (sites currently
or previously operated by KSC).
As illustrated in the pie chart on the Remediation
Projects page, of the 200 sites investigated to date, 109 have received No Further Action
approval, 19 are currently undergoing SWMU Assessments, 18 are
in the Confirmation Sampling (CS) phase, and 7 are in more comprehensive
RCRA Facility Investigation (RFI) phase. In addition, Corrective
Measures Studies are underway for 5 sites, and Corrective Measures
are being implemented at 41 other sites. Finally, Statements
of Basis have been issued for 31 sites where Corrective Measures
have been approved by FDEP and where administrative land use
control implementation plans (LUCIPs) have been initiated. |
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