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THE JANUARY 25-26 1997 MEETING OF THE NATIONAL CAUCUS OF
COMMUNITY MEMBERS OF RESTORATION ADVISORY BOARDS

PHOENIX, ARIZONA

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Dear Fellow RAB Community Members:

Despite many obstacles, the first meeting of the National Caucus
of Community Members of Restoration Advisory Boards will be
taking place this Sunday and Monday, January 25-26, in Phoenix
Arizona, the site of the next Defense Environmental Restoration
Task Force. The Caucus meeting will dovetail with the January
27-29 meeting of the Defense Environmental Restoration Task
Force, the official Pentagon advisory committee on DOD's
national cleanup program. We are quite excited about the
meeting. This will be the first time since the creation of the
RAB process in September 1993, that RAB Community Members from
around the country will be participating in a national meeting
to discuss the DoD's cleanup program, RAB issues, and how RAB
Community Members working together can improve the process. Over
45 individuals serving on 33 RABs will be participating in the
meeting. A follow-up meeting is being scheduled for September
1998, to accommodate those individuals who, as a result of
timing and or funding, were not able to participate in the
January meeting. The September meeting will take place in
Washington DC. Our thanks to everyone who help make the January
Caucus meeting possible.

Caucus Participant List

Resource People & Speakers

Saul Bloom, Director, Arc Ecology, Community Member: Oakland and
Presidio Army Bases RABs

Sam Goodhope, National Association of Attorney Generals
representative to DERTF

Don Gray, Energy and Environment Research Institute,
Environmental representative to DERTF

Curt Gandy, Fort Ord Toxics Project, Community Member: Fort Ord
RAB

Aimee Houghton, Careerpro

Greg Hurley, Community CoChair: El Toro RAB

Christine Shirley, Staff Scientist, Arc Ecology, Community
Member: Hunters Point and Treasure Island RABs

Facilitator - Doug Kern (Presidio Army Base and Hunters Point
Naval Shipyard RAB)

RABs with Community Members participating in the January Caucus

NOAA/ Adak Naval Facility, Anchorage, AK
Luke Air Force Base, Glendale, AZ
Tucson Int. Airport Area Super Fund Site, Tucson, AZ
Beale Air Force Base, Marysville, CA
Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale, CA
Fort Ord Army Base, Marina/Seaside, CA
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, CA
Long Beach Naval Complex, Long Beach, CA
Mather Air Force Base, Rancho Cordova, CA
Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, Orange County, CA
McClellan Air Force Base, Sacramento, CA
Oakland Army Base, Oakland, CA
Presidio Army Base, San Francisco, CA
Point Molate Naval Fuel Depot, Richmond, CA
Treasure Island Naval Station, San Francisco, CA
Fort Carson Army Base, Colorado Springs, CO
Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Adams County, CO
Naval Air Station Cecil Field, Jacksonville, FL
Westover Air Reserve Base, Westover, MA
Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Lexington, MD
Naval Air Station Brunswick, Brunswick, ME
Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant, St. Paul, MN
Vance Air Force Base, Enid, OK
Aberdeen Proving Ground (Army), Edgewood, MD
Grand Forks Air Force Base, Grand Forks, ND
Fort Campbell, Army Base, Clarksville, TN
Kelly Air Force Base, San Antonio,TX
US Army Fort Bliss, El Paso, TX
Hill Air Force Base, Ogden, UT
Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA
Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Norfolk, VA
Keyport Naval Undersea Training Center/ Liberty Bay, Keyport, WA
Fairchild Air Force Base / Washington Air Guard, Spokane, WA

Arc Support Staff Attending: Jeff Lehman, Staff Associate

FINALIZED RAB CAUCUS AGENDA

MONDAY, 1/26

9am: Welcome, Introduction of the meeting and its agenda,
Introductions of participants

9:30 Background session

A. History of the US Base Cleanup program
 A short oral history of how the DoD cleanup program came into being
 Don Gray -- Administrative and Legislative History (5 min)
 Sam Goodhope -- The Role of the States (5 min)
 Saul Bloom -- Community Involvement (5 min)

B. Presentations: Current status of the program
1) Health Risk Assessments, CERCLA: EE/CAs, Tiered Screening (20 min)
 A Community Members Briefing on Risk Assessment
 Christine Shirley -- Arc Ecology Environmental Scientist 
2) Dirty Transfers (20 min)
 What are Dirty Transfers and The Implications For Communities/Gov. 
 Sam Goodhope -- Texas Attorney General's Office
3) Institutional Controls (20 min)
 Do Institutional Controls Work
 Greg Hurley -- El Toro RAB Community CoChair
11:00 Break
11:15 Background session cont.
C. Presentations: Current status of the program cont.
1) Range Rule (20 min)
 A Report on the Status of the Discussion
 Ted Henry -- University of Maryland Department of Toxicology
 Curt Gandy -- Fort Ord Toxics Coalition
2) The President's budget and Funding for FY98 (20 min)
 Saul Bloom -- DoD's Budgetary Strategy
3) Superfund Amendments (20 min)
 Don Gray -- DERTF, Energy and Environment Study Institute
4) Upcoming Legislation and Guidances (20 min)
 Aimee Houghton -- Careerpro
 Don Gray -- DERTF, Energy and Environment Study Institute
5) Lead Based Paint (15 min)
 A Community Members Briefing on Lead Based Paint
 Christine Shirley -- Arc Ecology Environmental Scientist 
1pm Lunch
2:30 DERTF Agenda - Discussion of topics and responses, if any,
from Caucus
A. Briefing on DERTF Meeting
1) History and Role of DERTF -- Don Gray
2) Working with DERTF -- Sam Goodhope
3) Critical Issues on DERTF Agenda -- Don Gray and Sam Goodhope
 Disestablishment of RABs
 Range Rule
 Institutional Controls
B. Development of Caucus statement to DERTF for presentation at public
comment period
C. Discussion of individual RAB members comments to DERTF
4:00 Break
4:15 Caucus/ Network discussion
A. Presentation of Discussion Papers
1) Greg Hurley -- Caucus structure and activities (15 min)
2) Aimee Houghton -- NABER (15 min)
3) Saul Bloom -- Caucus structure and activities (15 min)
B. Goals and objectives of Caucus and networking
C. Structure
6:00 Development of new Caucus structure
7:00 Review of decisions
A. Summary of tasks and assignments
B. Development of timeline for implementation
C. Formal close of Caucus
7:30 Dinner and conversation

DERTF AGENDA

TUESDAY, 1/27

7:30am Registration
8:00 Executive session
9:30 Administrative remarks
 (Shah Choudhury, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Environmental
 Cleanup)
9:40 Opening remarks
(Patricia Rivers, Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Cleanup, Task
 Force Members)
10:00 Business items (Ms. Rivers)
 Approve June 1997 meeting minutes
 Review open action items
 Review status of DERTF Recommendations
10:30 Break
10:45 Panel presentation on protection of natural and cultural
resources at BRAC installations Donald Conlon, Army Corps of
Engineers; Dr. Bernard Murphy, Office of the Assistant Secretary
of the Navy [I&E]; Dicarlo Ciccell, Air Force Base Conversion
Agency; Stephanie Stevenson, Headquarters US Air Force/ ILEVP;
Charlene Vaughn, Advisory Concil on Historic Preservation)
11:45 Lunch
1:15 Introduction to Williams Air Force Base Segment (WAFB)
(William Nelms, Site Manager/ Acting BEC)
1:30 Presentation on environmental issues at WAFB
(Dr. William Harris, Texas A&M University; Dr. Barbara Smith,
Regional Project Manager, EPA; Jerry Gless, Arizona Department
of Environmental Quality; Lou Minkler, Arizona Department of
Environmental Quality; Leonard Fuchs, Williams AFB RAB Co-Chair)
1:30 Presentation on reuse and property transfer issues at
Williams Air Force Base (Wayne Balmer, City of Mesa Community
Development Manager)
3:00 Presentation on the WAFB base reuse story(James Burke, the
Gila River Indian Community; Lynn Kusy, Williams Gateway Airport
Authority; Dr. Charles Backus, Arizona State University - East)
3:15 Break
3:45 Tour of WAFB
5:00 Dinner Break
7:00 Public Comment Period
8:00 Adjournment/ Buses Depart for Hotel

WEDNESDAY, 1/28

9:00am Administrative remarks: Ms. Rivers
9:15 Presentation on Optimization of long-term operation and
monitoring (Lynn Strauss, Navy; Jim Daniels, Army) note: the
term "cost reduction" which appeared in the previous version of
the agenda has been dropped
10:30 Presentation on AFBCA Site Closeout Efforts (John Smith, Air
Force Base Conversion Agency)
10:45 Break
11:15 Superfund reform and Reauthorization (Jim Woolford, EPA)
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Presentation on information management for BRAC properties
(John Martin,GSA)
2:30 Presentation on expediting FOST/ FOSL (Phyllis Breland, OEA)
3:00 Break
3:30 Presentation on Lender Concerns Regarding BRAC Properties
(Elliott Laws, Patton Boggs; Brad White, PMA, Michael McGinley,
Mellon Bank; Peter Kirwan, Averback Environmental)
5:00 Adjournment

THURSDAY, 1/29

9:00am Administrative remarks: Mr. Choudhury
9:15 Discussion of issues papers:Ms. Rivers
 Measures of merit
 BRAC Indicators of Progress
 Range Rule update
 Asbestos at BRAC installations
 Lead in Soil from Lead-Based Paint -- New
 NGA Federal Facilities Policy
 Early transfer authority
 RAB Adjournment -- Yet another new title for this
subject (Sunsetting and Disestablishment
 preceded)
 Future land use
 BRAC Cleanup Site Security
 FOST/ FOSL Review
 Natural Resources Damages (replaces topic last
scheduled for Wednesday presentation)
 Brownfields
 Presumptive Remedies
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Annual Report to Congress: Ms. Rivers
2:00 New business: Ms. Rivers
 July 1998 Meeting
 Other Matters
3:30 Adjournment