2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 11 May 2006 15:44:11 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] U.S. EPA issues reefing guidance
 
From U.S. EPA:

Creating Artificial Reefs

The Ex-USS Spiegel Grove en route to artificial reef sink site; the scuttling of Navy Dive Tender YDT-14 on April 1, 2000, SE of Pensacola Pass, Escambia County, Florida; the Ex-USS Spiegel Grove resting at its artificial reef site.The Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds, Marine Pollution Control Branch, is pleased to announce the National Guidance: Best Management Practices for Preparing Vessels Intended to Create Artificial Reefs.

The first of its kind, this guidance offers a consistent, national approach for preparing obsolete and decommissioned military and commercial vessels for use as artificial reefs.

This guidance satisfies the mandate of Section 3516 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004, which amends existing law to require that the Maritime Administration (MARAD) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) jointly develop guidance recommending environmental best management practices (BMP’s) to be used in the preparation of vessels for use as artificial reefs.

The BMP guidance identifies materials of concern that may be present aboard vessels, identifies where these materials may be found, and describes their potential adverse impacts if released into the marine environment. For each material or category of material of concern identified, this document provides a narrative clean-up performance goal and information on methods for addressing those goals.

EPA believes that achieving the clean-up performance goals provided in this document, if complemented with strategic reef site selection, will maximize the opportunity for these vessels to benefit the environment as artificial reefs.

For the original announcement and links, go to
http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/habitat/artificialreefs/

--


Lenny Siegel Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org


_______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/military

  Prev by Date: [CPEO-MEF] Rocky Mountain Arsenal (CO) partial delisting
Next by Date: [CPEO-MEF] Horse park on Naval Academy (MD) land?
  Prev by Thread: [CPEO-MEF] Rocky Mountain Arsenal (CO) partial delisting
Next by Thread: [CPEO-MEF] Horse park on Naval Academy (MD) land?

CPEO Home
CPEO Lists
Author Index
Date Index
Thread Index