Re: Base Closure

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org>]

ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS

 It's such a good idea, that too many people may be trying to do it.
A draft report, "Establishing Environmental Technology Development
Centers at Closing California Military Bases," authored for Cal/EPA by
Peter Wood and Pierre Thiry, concludes:

"Environmental technology development centers have been proposed at
several closing California bases undergoing environmental cleanup. The
economic benefit that a technology development center would provide to
communities impacted by base closures makes this concept attractive and
increasingly popular. However, the number of technology development
centers currently proposed is sufficient to warrant concern regarding the
viability and practicality of numerous centers located throughout the state. A
large number of technology development centers with overlapping
geographical and/or market interests may lead to competition with one
another for both funding and business. In addition, it appears that reuse
entities proposing technology development centers at closing bases are often
unaware of existing efforts to support technology development elsewhere in
California.

 As a resource for reuse planners, the report lists the twelve
members of the California Environmental Business Incubator Consortium
(CEBIC) as well as several other ET initiatives within the state:

CEBIC

Alameda Center for Environmental Technology (proposed for Alameda
Naval Air Station)

Border Environmental Business Cluster (Chula Vista)

California Environmental Enterprise (Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory)

College of Engineering - Center for Environmental Research Technology
(UC Riverside)

Emerging Technologies Institute (Sacramento)

Environmental Business Cluster (FMC Corp. property, San Jose)

Environmental Process and Improvement Center (McClellan Air Force
Base)

High Technology Commercialization Center (Oakland)

Pasadena Environmental Technology Center

Project California (Irvine)

Thousand Oaks Environmental Business Cluster

UC San Diego - CONNECT

OTHER CALIFORNIA INITIATIVES

California Environmental Technology Partnership

Cal/EPA Technology Certification Program

Center for the Evaluation of New Environmental Technologies

California Institute for Environmental Technology

Cooperative Institute for Environmental Remediation and Policy (Fort Ord)

California State University at Monterey Bay