United States Environmental Protection Agency
Region IX
POLLUTION REPORT



Date:
Monday, August 9, 2004
From:
Robert Wise

To:
Peter Guria, EPA ERS
Rich Rupert, EPA
Taly Jolish, EPA

Subject: 

Preservation Aviation Aerial Photo Shoot
Preservation Aviation
10800 Burbank Blvd., North Hollywood, CA
Latitude: 34.1718747
Longitude: -118.3872200


POLREP No.:
6
Site #:
09LX
Reporting Period:
08/09/04
D.O. #:
016-9043
Start Date:
5/27/2004
Response Authority:
CERCLA
Mob Date:
5/26/2004
Response Type:
Emergency
Demob Date:
 
NPL Status:
Non NPL
Completion Date:
 
Incident Category:
Removal Action
CERCLIS ID #:
Contract #
RCRIS ID #:
 

Site Description

See Polrep #1


Current Activities

August 8, 2004: 1 OSC, 4 START, 1 PST
START and PST continued to segregate the radioactive and non-radioactive items in the north yard.  USCG Air Station Los Angeles provided chopper for OSC and START fly over of site to get clean aerial photos of site.
Ammended PST IAG for an additional $25,000.


Planned Removal Actions

Phase 1.  Stabilization:  May 26 - 30, 2004
Phase 2.  North Yard Cleanout:  July 19, 2004 - TBD. Demobilization during the week starting September 6, 2004 due to OSC, PST and START committments to the Continuing Challenge.
Phase 3.  North Building Cleanout:  TBD
Phase 4.  North Building Assessment:  TBD
Phase 5.  North/South Building Decontamination:  TBD
Phase 6.  Yard Area/Subsurface Assessment: TBD
Phase 7.  Soil Removal (as necessary):  TBD


Next Steps

1.  Initiate enforcement action against the land owner and business owner
2.  Continue community relations program to inform neighborhood of removal activities
3.  OSC Benson on-site on August 11, 2004 to cross over with OSC Wise.  OSC Benson will cover site from August 12-27, 2004.
4.  Remobilization of ERRS in late August - early September 2004.


Key Issues

1.  Approval of Action Memo with statutory exemption from Headquarters.
2.  Approval to discharge to the POTW from the City of Los Angeles.
3.  City of Los Angeles Local Enforcement Agency has prohibited the disposal of any solid waste from the site within the city limits.


Estimated Costs *
  Budgeted Total To Date Remaining % Remaining
Extramural Costs
ERRS - Cleanup Contractor $170,000.00 $136,619.00 $33,381.00 19.64%
IAGs - PST $45,000.00 $27,853.00 $17,147.00 38.10%
START $0.00 $37,271.00 ($37,271.00) 0.00%
Intramural Costs
USEPA - Direct (Region, HQ) $120,000.00 $6,710.00 $113,290.00 94.41%
 
Total Site Costs $335,000.00 $208,453.00 $126,547.00 37.78%

* The above accounting of expenditures is an estimate based on figures known to the OSC at the time this report was written. The OSC does not necessarily receive specific figures on final payments made to any contractor(s). Other financial data which the OSC must rely upon may not be entirely up-to-date. The cost accounting provided in this report does not necessarily represent an exact monetary figure which the government may include in any claim for cost recovery.


response.epa.gov/Preservation_Aviation

POLREP #6 Last Updated 8/9/2004