Official Statement Airport Commission City and County of San ...

Hazardous Material Management
Environmental Control Unit
The Commission has an Environmental Control Unit that is responsible for environmental compliance
issues. This unit includes professional engineers and chemists, sanitary technicians and inspectors and surveillance
teams. This unit is supported by on-site consultants, on-site testing and treatment facilities, and an on-call
environmental contractor to provide rapid clean up where contamination is unexpectedly encountered during
construction or other activities.
Remediation and Preventative Measures
The Commission and certain Airport tenants have discovered and remediated or are engaged in the process
of remediating and managing certain contamination on Airport property pursuant to current regulatory standards.
The contamination has primarily consisted of fuel constituents which most likely resulted from fueling practices of
the 1940s through the early 1960s. Since then the Commission has instituted regulations which require fueling
practices and facilities requirements that are less likely to contribute to hazardous environmental discharges. The
Commission believes that the jet fueling system is currently in compliance with applicable environmental
regulations.
Remediation activities at the Airport in the majority of cases have consisted of removal and offsite disposal
of contaminated soil and extraction and treatment of contaminated groundwater and in-situ methods approved by the
regulatory agencies with jurisdiction. Substantially all of the hazardous material management work for the Master
Plan was completed within budget and on schedule.
To avert the migration of contamination into environmentally sensitive areas such as the San Francisco
Bay, the Commission has installed, and has future plans with its tenants to install, monitoring wells at various
locations including the Airport’s outer perimeter. The monitoring wells have thus far detected very low levels of
contamination. Further investigation is being coordinated with the Regional Water Quality Control Board and
tenants to ensure that the contamination has no adverse impact on environmentally sensitive areas.
Water Quality Control Plant
The Commission owns and operates a water quality control plant (the “Plant”) located at the Airport. The
Plant was designed with a dry weather capacity of 2.2 million gallons per day and is used to treat wastewater from
various Airport facilities prior to discharge into the San Francisco Bay. In 2001, the California Regional Water
Quality Control Board, San Francisco Region, issued a Cease and Desist Order requiring the Airport to comply with
its wastewater discharge permit requirements by increasing the reliability of the Plant. In 2002 the Commission
awarded a contract for a three-year $37 million expansion project to improve the Plant. This project, which was
completed and operational in 2004, expanded and upgraded the Plant to incorporate current wastewater treatment
technology, increase dry weather capacity to 3.22 million gallons per day, and provide redundancy during peak
demand periods.
CAPITAL PROJECTS AND PLANNING
The Commission maintains capital plans (the “Capital Plans”) for budgeting and planning purposes. These
plans are periodically updated by Airport staff and approved by the Commission based upon available funding
sources, anticipated capital needs, airline feedback, and project priority. The FAA administers the Airport
Improvement Program (the “AIP”) and grants are made available to airport operators in the form of entitlement
funds and discretionary funds. The majority of the grant funds received by the Commission are AIP grants.
In Fiscal Year 2004-05, the Airport resumed preparation of an annual update to its multi-year Capital Plan,
which had been suspended following the events of September 11, 2001. The most recent revision to the five-year
Capital Plan corresponds to the period between Fiscal Year 2009-10 and Fiscal Year 2013-14. These revisions were
approved by the Commission in February 2009, and resulted in a five-year Capital Plan that includes an aggregate of
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