| Action Date |
Action |
Description |
DEC Staff |
| 6/11/1991 |
Site Added to Database |
Multiple contaminants. |
Former Staff |
| 7/30/1992 |
Update or Other Action |
(Old R:Base Action Code = FI - Field Inspection (General)). Use with COE Building, use appears active, multiple contaminants suspected. |
Ronan Short |
| 5/16/1994 |
Update or Other Action |
(Old R:Base Action Code = RPL2 - Site Information Request Letter). PRP-CS sent Database Notification Letter to Cristal Fosbrook requesting update/confirmation of information concerning the contaminated site. |
Jeff Peterson |
| 7/25/1994 |
Update or Other Action |
(Old R:Base Action Code = NFA - No Further Action Required (CERCLA)). NFA under CERCLA signed by all parties this date for soils at this source area. GW cleanup will be continued as part of Operable Unit 5 and then site will be closed. |
Ronan Short |
| 1/17/1995 |
Risk Assessment Report Approved |
Post-wide Risk Assessment Approach Document received this date. Comments by RM. Document prepared by HLA. |
Ronan Short |
| 9/16/1996 |
Site Characterization Report Approved |
(Old R:Base Action Code = RI - Remedial Investigation). Final, Remedial Investigation Report, OU-1, document date September 1, 1996. |
Rielle Markey |
| 3/2/2001 |
Update or Other Action |
File number corrected from 108.38.053 to 108.38.071. |
Mitzi Read |
| 12/12/2001 |
Institutional Control Record Established |
1. All organizations conducting activities on United States Army Alaska (USARAK) controlled land are responsible for complying with established institutional controls (ICs). ICs are administrative, procedural, and regulatory measures to control human access to and usage of property. They are applicable to all known or suspected contaminated sites where contamination has been left in place. 2. These controls have been established to implement the selected remedial actions agreed upon by the U.S. Army (Army), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) in accordance with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) as amended by the Superfund Amendment Reauthorization Act (SARA). These controls also apply to remedial actions agreed upon under Two-Party Compliance Agreements. These agreements are concluded between USARAK and ADEC and apply to petroleum/oil/lubricants- (POL) contaminated sites. 3. ICs such as limitations on access, water use, excavations, and property transfers will supplement engineering controls as appropriate for short-term and long-term management to prevent or limit human and environmental exposure to hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants. Specific ICs include, among other things: limitations on the depth and location of excavations, prohibition of or restrictions on well drilling and use of ground water, requirements for worker use of personal protective equipment, site monitoring, and prohibition of certain land uses, types of vehicles, etc. 4. Organizational units, tenants, and support/contractor organizations must obtain an Excavation Clearance Request (ECR) for all soil disturbing activities impacting soils six inches or more below the ground surface. The review process for approval of an ECR begins with the identification of the current status (known or suspected hazardous waste site or “clean” site) of a work location. ECR’s for work in known or suspected hazardous waste sites: a. will include specific limitations and controls on such work; b. will include specific IC procedures, and notification, monitoring, reporting, and stop work requirements; c. may include procedures for management, characterization, and disposal of any soil or groundwater encountered or removed; d. will identify “project managers” for both the unit/contractor requesting the work and DPW Environment Resources. 5. The DPW project manager will conduct on-site inspections of each work site (at which ICs apply) to determine continued compliance with the terms and conditions of the approved ECR. DPW has the authority to revoke ECR approval if the specified terms and conditions are not being met. ECR forms are available at the Customer Service Desks at: a. Building 730 at Fort Richardson; b. Building 3015 at Fort Wainwright; c. Building 605 at Fort Greely. 6. USARAK has negotiated (with USEPA and/or ADEC) decision documents and/or Records of Decision (RODs) that mandate the implementation of ICs USARAK Directorate of Public Works, Environmental Resources Department (PWE), maintains copies of all decision documents and RODs requiring ICs in its real property files. PWE provides regularly updated post maps showing all areas affected by ICs. These maps can easily be accessed by using an approved intranet mapping interface application. Copies of these maps will be available to each directorate, activity, and tenant organization. To ensure the effectiveness of ICs, all organizational units and tenant activities will be informed on an annual basis of ICs on contaminated soils and groundwater in effect near their facilities. 7. ICs are enforceable by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC). Failure to comply with an IC mandated in a decision document or ROD will violate the USARAK Federal Facility Agreement and may result in stipulated fines and penalties. This does not include the costs of corrective actions required due to violation of an established IC. |
Sharon Richmond |
| 7/16/2003 |
Meeting or Teleconference Held |
Fort Wainwright Restoration Advisory Board held it's last meeting on July16, 2003. |
Patrice Buck |
| 5/5/2008 |
Update or Other Action |
Remaining groundwater contamination being addressed under OU5 EQFS. DRO only remaining contaminant. Please see file 108.38.071 for more info. |
Sharon Richmond |
| 12/18/2008 |
Exposure Tracking Model Ranking |
Initial ranking with ETM completed for source area id: 72105 name: miscellaneous small POL spills |
Sharon Richmond |
| 9/1/2015 |
Update or Other Action |
Transferred to Fairbanks |
Susan Carberry |
| 12/13/2016 |
Meeting or Teleconference Held |
A two day Federal Facilities Agreement (FFA) and Stakeholders meeting was held on December 13 & 14, 2016. The main focus of the meeting was to develop a site discovery and site intake process that would satisfy requirements of the Fort Wainwright FFA, RCRA Permit, and two party agreements. The Army, EPA and DEC committed to a flowchart of the preliminary source evaluation process. Timelines were established for scoping a land use control implementation plan (LUCIP) and developing a contracting schedule for Fort Wainwright contaminated site investigations and remedial actions. Seven sites were proposed for inclusion into the FFA (three party agreement) by the Army and the RPMs documented the assignment of the regulatory path for these sites using a newly developed and agreed to signature form. |
Dennis Shepard |
| 1/1/2017 |
Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other |
DEC approved the 2015 Annual Institutional Controls Report, Fort Wainwright, Alaska (August 2016). |
Dennis Shepard |
| 11/30/2017 |
Update or Other Action |
Updated problem/comment statement. This site is being cleaned up under the CERCLA 3-Party site, East Quartermaster's Fueling System (EQFS). See DEC File Number: 108.38.071.03, Hazard ID: 1106 for additional information regarding this site. |
Erica Blake |
| 3/26/2019 |
Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other |
DEC approved the 2018 Monitoring Report, Operable Unit 5 (dated March 2019). The document describes groundwater sample results, showing that no significant contamination migration was occurring at the Sparge Curtain treatment system and Chena River boom area. The oleophilic biobarrier along the Chena River remains in place, although planned expansion was delayed due to high water in 2018. The benzene and diesel range organics (DRO) plumes at the West Quartermaster’s Fueling System (WQFS) were mostly found to be stable, and groundwater monitoring showed no migration of contaminants from the WQFS into the Chena River. Residual range organics were found to be exceeding remedial goals (RG) in six wells, and an exceedance of the RG was identified for trichloroethylene (TCE) in a well at the EQFS site, but evidence of biodegradation was present.The institutional control (IC) inspection found that IC’s were properly in place. Twenty wells were decommissioned, and three wells were replaced. |
Kevin Fraley |
| 12/23/2021 |
Exposure Tracking Model On Hold |
This site will be cleaned up under ADEC File Number: 108.38.071.03 East Quartermaster Fuel System. The ETM ranking for that site will include Building 1053. |
Erica Blake |
| 9/11/2023 |
Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other |
DEC reviewed the Draft 2022 Institutional Controls (IC) Report, which details the 2022 IC inspections conducted at Fort Wainwright, Alaska (FWA). The purpose of the annual IC inspection is to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of ICs associated with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) Record of Decision (ROD) source areas and Two-Party source areas on FWA. |
Tim Sharp |
| 4/8/2024 |
Institutional Control Periodic Reporting |
DEC Approved the 2022 IC Report for Fort Wainwright CERCLA and Two-Party Sites on this day. |
Tim Sharp |
