NASA announces a community information session on the NASA Environmental Investigations & Cleanup of areas it administers at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. For more information, please see the Community Information Session announcement.
NASA Press Release SSFL10-001 announcing additional soil cleanup at Santa Susana Field Lab.
The Group 9 Remedial Investigation (RI) report was submitted by NASA to the DTSC on November 30, 2009. The public comment period has not yet begun. Here is the link to the Document on the DTSC webpage: DTSC Group 9 RI Document List
Update: The public comment period has ended.
The Cultural Resources Management Plan (CRMP) for federally owned property at Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) is NASA's mechanism for complying with historic preservation requirements set forth in the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA).
A draft version of this CRMP is available. The public comment period ended April 2, 2010.
NASA has released the Year in Review 2009 describing the activities related to the environmental investigation and cleanup activities completed at SSFL in 2009.
Currently, NASA is implementing a short-term action used to prevent or mitigate risks to human health or the environment before a final remedy has been selected. NASA’s Interim Source Removal Action (ISRA) is designed to remove potential sources of contaminants and improve the quality of surface water discharge.
For more information, please read the NASA’s Interim Source Removal Action Fact Sheet .
This and other fact sheets are also available on the Fact Sheets page on this site.
Federal statutes guide federal agency stewardship of historic resources under their control and provides direction for establishing programs to manage their historic resources.
For the fact sheet, please read the Historic Resources Survey Fact Sheet .
You also may read the entire Historic Resources Survey and Assessment (PDF, 4.8MB).
This and other fact sheets are also available on the Fact Sheets page on this site.
The California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) Public Comment period for the NASA Group 3 Remedial Investigation report began on October 21 and will end on December 4, 2009.
Please see DTSC's Notice of Public Comment Period .
An index of the entire report, with links to each section, may be found at:
http://174.143.86.82/files/lib_rcra_soils/group3/rfireport/3756_Group3DocIndex07-21-09.htm
On September 14, 2009, NASA submitted to the General Services Administration (GSA) a "report of excess" regarding the property administered by NASA at the Santa Susana Field Lab. GSA has conditionally accepted that report.
NASA administers 451.2 acres of property at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) in Ventura County, near Simi Valley. For more than 30 years, NASA has administered this site, primarily for purposes of rocket development and engine testing. In recent years, as NASA’s mission has evolved, there has been a transition in the kinds of launch systems needed, and testing for those systems is being undertaken at other NASA facilities. Following a lengthy period of consideration and review of its current and future needs, NASA has concluded that it has no further need for this property located at SSFL. This review included determining whether any other NASA facility and program had potential need for the NASA-administered property at the Santa Susana Field Lab site.
In accordance with statutory requirements, NASA notified Congress in April 2009 of NASA’s intent to declare the lands "excess."
Consistent with statute and regulations, on September 14, 2009, NASA notified the General Services Administration (GSA) that it reported the NASA-administered SSFL parcels as excess. GSA is the federal agency responsible for undertaking all activities relating to transfer of these federal lands to another party, including how the public will be kept involved. NASA remains the landholder and custodian of the site.
NASA remains committed to the long-term achievement of cleaning up its sites and to overall management of the federally owned land, structures and cultural resources. To complete that cleanup NASA will continue to work actively with contractors who are doing the actual cleanup at the site as well as with the public and regulatory bodies.
For more information about the GSA process, please contact:
W. James Biederman
wjames.biederman@gsa.gov,
or see their website regarding GSA’s transfer of the lands at SSFL at: https://gsa.gov/ssfl.
For more information about NASA’s environmental cleanup at the site, please contact:
Allen Elliot
Email: allen.elliott@nasa.gov
The California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) has issued public notices announcing a public comment period on draft Consent Orders between DTSC and respondents the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The public comment period ended October 2, 2009.
Links to the public notices and draft Consent Orders may be found on the DTSC website.
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