| Action Date |
Action |
Description |
DEC Staff |
| 10/15/2001 |
Site Added to Database |
Petroleum contamination. |
Ann Farris |
| 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 |
| 10/24/2006 |
Update or Other Action |
File name changed from FTWW to Fort Wainwright, per Project Manager. |
April Woolery |
| 3/21/2007 |
GIS Position Updated |
Latitude/longitude updated using ADEC GIS in consultation with project manager Sharon Richmond. |
Mitzi Read |
| 1/6/2010 |
Exposure Tracking Model Ranking |
Initial ranking with ETM completed for source area id: 74801 name: Fort Wainwright (2P) Neely Rd POL - Condensate |
Debra Caillouet |
| 4/15/2010 |
Update or Other Action |
Site name changed to reflect actual site in paper file. Originally shown as located on Neely Rd when file indicates Gaffney |
Debra Caillouet |
| 4/15/2010 |
Update or Other Action |
Letter sent to Army requesting results of site investigation referenced in letter from Army or to have the site included in the IRP for future work. |
Debra Caillouet |
| 9/2/2015 |
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 |
| 7/28/2020 |
Update or Other Action |
The following Hazard IDs are being managed by Fort Wainwright under the same project HQAES ID 02871.1040 known as North Refueling: Hazard IDs 1655, 3826, 4390, and 24329. |
Mitzi Read |
| 9/28/2020 |
Document, Report, or Work plan Review - other |
DEC approved the Final Preliminary Source Evaluations Work Plan, Fort Wainwright, Alaska (dated September 2020). The document describes a proposed investigation approach for preliminary source evaluations (PSEs) at multiple sites located on Fort Wainwright, Alaska (FWA). The sites planned for investigation are; CANOL Pipeline Pump Station, North Refueling (four source areas), Building 3480 UST 208, Building 3030 South Loading Dock, TCE in monitoring well AP-5531 (near Building 3007 Drainage Swale), Building 3038 and Sage Hill. The objective of conducting this PSE work is to determine if contamination remains that may present a threat to human health or the environment, and to determine appropriate further action. This PSE work is expected to occur Fall 2020. |
Erica Blake |
| 8/20/2021 |
Site Visit |
ADEC conducted a site visit to various sites and stockpiles around Fort Wainwright, Alaska on August 13, 2021. Areas inspected were: clean, potentially contaminated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) stockpile locations, Birch Hill Ski Lodge area, Bailey Bridge and Chena River tar seep area. Building 3728 tar area, BLM Fuel Yard stockpiles in the North Refueling area, and the contaminated soil yard (CHPP Yard). A cover letter and photograph log was sent to the U.S. Army on August 20, 2021 discussing ADEC's observations and photos from the site inspection. |
Erica Blake |
| 11/1/2021 |
Exposure Tracking Model Ranking |
A new updated ranking with ETM has been completed for source area 74801 Fort Wainwright (2P) Gaffney Rd POL - Condensate. |
Cascade Galasso-Irish |
| 3/7/2022 |
Cleanup Complete Determination Issued |
A Cleanup Complete Determination has been issued on this date. Separate source areas within the North Refueling area are going to be investigated through an RI and will be separate from this site, under 108.38.091 Fort Wainwright Frmr N Airfield Hot Point (North Refueling). |
Cascade Galasso-Irish |
| 3/7/2022 |
Institutional Control Record Removed |
Institutional Controls have been removed. |
Erica Blake |
