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