[CPEO-MEF] Local work at Hunters Point

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The Navy reports additional progress in its efforts to utilize the local
community in the cleanup of its closed Hunters Point shipyard in San
Francisco: 

"IT [the Navy's remedial action contractor] hired a total of 20
community members through December 2000. In addition, one of IT's
protege firms, Innovative Technical Solutions, Inc. (ITSI), hired two
community members. ITSI is prepared to hire additional workers from the
community as their work load ramps up. IT is preparing to mobilize to
Parcels C and D at the end of January 2001, for steam line evaluation
and removal work. IT has reported that this work will be awarded to ITSI
and another IT protege firm, Mendelian Construction, a local Bayview
Hunters Point hub zone contractor.

"For the Parcel B cleanup, 13 contracts were identified for qualified
Bayview Hunters Point companies. Ten of these contracts were awarded to
Bayview Hunters Point contractors who had the skill necessary to
complete the work....

"For the Parcel E landfill cap, the largest dollar value subcontracts
were for trucking and liner placement. Several local trucking firms were
used to import the fill soil. IT had local hires working on the landfill
cap performing soil placement and grading work, supporting the trucking
effort, and performing air monitoring activities."

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 222B View St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/968-1126
lsiegel@cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org


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