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Time Line of The Downey Property
This time line is to show what physically took place on the Downey Facility Property. In some cases the government contracts are referenced repeatedly for individual years. This has been done to clarify what was physicially taking place on the property in that particular year. Not all activities are listed in this time line. Material related to Aerojet and Ordnance, Inc. is sketchy. Those companies main plants are adjacent to the main Downey Property. Employees that took part in these contracts say that indeed some Aerojet, Ordnance and Primex projects were performed on the Downey NASA/Boeing site. Specifically the ones performed during the 1990's.
The purpose of the time line is to show that there is reason to suspect that there is still radioactive and lethal toxic materials on the property that were not considered in the closing report for the Department of Energy. It clearly states in the Department of Energy report that they had no knowledge of any other activities than the specific one related to the original water boiler nuclear reactor prior to 1955. They were in operation for decades after 1955. They just chose not to look very hard.
As this time line shows, much more took place on that property and should be honestly evaluated for the safety of the public.
| DATE | EVENT |
| 1929 1932 1936 1940's 1941 1945 1946 1947 1948 1950 - 1960 1960 1961 1964 1966 1967 1968 1972 1973 February 1989 Before 1994 Kaiser was on the SE corner of the airfield 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2005 |
Dept.
of Energy found that there were no records available of decontamination
or decommissioning of the Downey Property U.S. Department of Energy -
Environmental Survey
Preliminary Report DOE Activities at Santa Susana Field Laboratories Ventura County, California February 1989 The history of DOE-supported activities that are now conducted at SSFL spans three decades and at least three locations since the early 1950s in southern California, The first location was in Downey, California, in Los Angeles County approximately 15 miles directly east of the Los Angeles International Airport, and approximately 15 miles south of Pasadena, At Downey, the Water Boiler Neutron Source was assembled by Atomics International (AI), in a section of the building then occupied by its parent company, North American Aviation, This small physics experiment operated at approximately 1/2 watt, until it was dismantled in 1956 and moved to the Santa Susana Field Laboratory location (SSFL),where lt was upgraded to 3 kilowatts(Rc,riley, 1985), No records were available of the decontamination and decommissioning of the Downey facility, http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/servlets/purl/6761822-Qev5dY/ 1929, the Downey property was a ranch owned & operated by James Hughan. E. M. Smith, a local industrialist & founder of the EMSCO company, purchased a 73-acre parcel from Hughan. Smith’s EMSCO company had a division called Albatross, which manufactured small aircraft. http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_LA_C.htm 1932 EMSCO leased the site to Champion Aircraft Corporation who manufactured small, inexpensive 2-seaters. Other companies followed - http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_LA_C.htm 1936 Aviation Manufacturing Corporation moved their Vultee Aircraft Division from Glendale into the Downey Site http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_LA_C.htm 1940's Army Air Corps awarded Vultee Aircraft a contract to make a basic training plane. The property size was then doubled. http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_LA_C.htm 1941 The plant’s output represented 15% of all the military aircraft produced in the U.S. Vultee bought 34% of Consolidated Aircraft in San Diego. To support the large new contracts for the War the Army Air Corps & Vultee greatly expanded the plant in the early 1940s. The Vultee plant assembled more than 11,000 military planes during World War II. http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_LA_C.htm 1945 The Vultee Field Division of Convair won a Navy contract for LARK surface-to-air missiles. Vultee was awarded a $1.2 million contract to study long-range missile weapons systems, and focused on the ballistic missile concept, using the German V-2 as a model. http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_LA_C.htm 1946 The contract was cancelled due to economic reasons. http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_LA_C.htm 1947 North American Aviation, which had a number of jet military contracts to fill, leased a portion of the Vultee assembly line in Downey. North American used Downey to produce its AJ-1 Navy bomber & T-28 post-war trainer. http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_LA_C.htm 1948 After the war Vultee made many products, including pre-fabricated homes using plastic & aluminum. By 1948 Vultee no longer used the Downey Facility. http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_LA_C.htm Navaho Missles manufactured from 1945 - 1958 - manufactured on Downey property from 1948 - 1950 - In 1950 the Navaho was modified to deliver a 3150-kg nuclear payload. The configuration was revised to that of the final Navaho - a twin-ramjet cruise stage launched strapped to the side of a liquid-rocket booster. http://www.astronautix.com/lvfam/navaho.htm Atomics International was contracted by the AEC in the late 1940s to design and test nuclear reactor fuel. Further source: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ocas/pdfs/tbd/outreach/wom042006.pdf and http://downey.kaiserpapers.info/atomics.html 1950 - 1960 Renamed - AFP16 (Air Force Plant 16). http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_LA_C.htm The Navaho was again redesigned so that the payload was sized to match the 20-kiloton W-4 nuclear warhead: 3150 kg in mass, 1.5 m in diameter and 2.3 m long. http://www.astronautix.com/lvfam/navaho.htm 1950 North American Aviation purchased the Convair portion of the Downey plant. http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_LA_C.htm 1953-54 The Downey facility developed the Navaho intercontinental cruise missile in http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_LA_C.htm 1955 North American spun off Rocketdyne - The rocket engine division http://en.wikipedia.info/wiki/North_American_Aviation 1956 Water Boiler Neutron Source moved to Santa Susana Laboratory in Simi Valley, CA. Name (Regulatory agency) [Docket number] Designation Principal Nuclear Type PowerAuthorizedStart-up(yr mo)Shutdown(yr mo)CommentContractor kW(t) Nuclear Examination Reactor (NRC) [50-375] L-85 (AE-6) AI Homogeneous 3,000 52 00 80 00 Ownership of this reactor was transferred to North American Rockwell 12/71 and was redesignated the Nuclear Examination Reactor or L-85 rather than AE-6. The AE- 6, also designated WBNS, was built and first operated at Downey, CA. It was moved to Santa Susana in 1956. License terminated 4/8/87. http://www.ne.doe.gov/pdfFiles/BLUEBOOK2003.pdf 1957 Labeled "North American Aviation Inc. Downey Plant" on a 1957 street map. http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_LA_C.htm Developed the Hound Dog air-to-ground missile, which was the prototype for cruise missile technology. “Little Joe Launch Vehicle” to test the Mercury capsules was also contracted. http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_LA_C.htm 1958 Aerojet was called the "General Motors of U.S. Rocketry" by Time magazine in 1958; five years later, the company employed 34,000 people working on missiles such as the Polaris, Minuteman, Trident, and Titan. Revenues were $605 million in 1962. http://www.namebase.info/sources/fV.html 1959 In 1959, the company created two new divisions: Ordnance and Electronic Systems. The Electronic Systems Division created infrared technology allowing satellites to observe missile launches around the world—a vital component of U.S. defense during the Cold War. In May 1959, Aerojet bought a Downey, California defense business from the Rheem Corporation. This was combined with a small defense operation acquired three years earlier to form the Ordnance Division.http://www.namebase.info/sources/fV.html Source: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4205/ch4-2.html 1960 North American was working on the development of the X-15 aircraft. The X-15 aircraft was the first winged craft to reach 4, 5 and 6 times the speed of sound, http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_LA_C.htm In 1960 the name "Missile Division" was changed to "Space and Information Systems Division." 1961 North American was
awarded 2 contracts from NASA:
the Saturn SII launch
vehicle & the Project Apollo Spacecraft Development program.http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_LA_C.htm 1964 The AFP16 facility was transferred to NASA. It was then known as NASA Industrial Plant, Downey. 1966 Propellant tanks of service module 017 failed during a pressure test at North American Aviation, Downey, Calif. The planned test included several pressure cycles followed by a 48-hour test of the tanks at the maximum operating pressure of 165 newtons per square centimeter (240 pounds per square inch). Normal operating pressure was 120 newtons per square centimeter (175 pounds per square inch). After 1 hour 40 minutes at 165 newtons the failure occurred. SM 017 (designed for SA-501) had been pulled for this test after cracks had been detected in the tanks of SM 101. SM 017 had been previously proof-tested a short time (a matter of minutes) at 220 newtons per square centimeter (320 pounds per square inch). A team was set up at North American Aviation to look into the failure and its possible impact on the Saturn IB and Saturn V Apollo missions. MSC had two observers on the team, which was to make its findings and recommendations available by November 4. North American Aviation identified the problem as stress-corrosion cracking resulting from use of methanol as a test liquid at pressures causing above threshold stresses. No tanks subjected to methanol at high stress levels would be used. Freon and isopropyl alcohol, respectively, were recommended for test fluids in the oxidizer and fuel systems, with the stipulation that the equipment had not previously seen propellant and would receive a hot gaseous nitrogen purge after completion of the cold flow operation. Note, Frank Magliato, NASA Hq., to NASA Administrator and Deputy Administrator, "Test Failure of Service Module 017," Oct. 26, 1966; TWX, Dale D. Myers, NA, to J. F. Shea, MSC, Nov. 11, 1966. http://www.apolloexplorer.co.uk/default.asp?libsrc=/books/sp-4009/v4p1d.htm 1967 In March North American merged with Rockwell-Standard, then known as North American Rockwell. http://en.wikipedia.info/wiki/North_American_Aviation PROJECT SOPHY. SOLID PROPELLANT HAZARDS PROGRAM http://tinyurl.com/2dwp4f Project Sophy SOLID ROCKET PROPELLANTS *HAZARDS, *SOLID ROCKET PROPELLANTS, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, SHOCK WAVES, SENSITIVITY, COMBUSTION, DEFECTS(MATERIALS), ALUMINUM, PRESSURE, GEOMETRY, CALIBRATION, BLAST, RDX, TNT, PYROLYSIS, DETONATIONS, AMMONIUM PERCHLORATE, COMPOSITE PROPELLANTS, SOLID ROCKET OXIDIZERS. http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0819301 Qualification test firings of Phase II containment capsules at Aerojet-General, Downey Plant. Final test report http://downey.kaiserpapers.info/aerojet.html http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/ A fatal explosion on 5 October 1967, at the Downey, California, plant of North American Rockwell, which was caused by a mishandling of finely divided barium mixed with Freon. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4308/ch5.htm 1968 Lusk was assisting in tile final checkout of 2TV-t at the North American Rockwell facility at Downey:, California late in March when a water glycol leak was discovered in a valve seal of the spacecraft environmental control unit. The normal procedure would have been to remove the environmental control unit and repair the sest_ _lis would have caused at least a week's delay. Lusk suggested cutting the section of the ECU control panel with the leaking valve_ replacing the faulty seal and re-installing the panel section with its repaired valve. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/pdf/83120main_1968.pdf 1972 Downey was given the job of assembly & component manufacture of the Space Shuttle Orbiters http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_LA_C.htm 1973 The company changed its name to Rockwell International and named its aircraft division North American Aircraft Operations http://en.wikipedia.info/wiki/North_American_Aviation 1992 "Just for the record, two American companies made the vicious little munitions that killed Tamim and his colleague. One is Olin Ordnance of Downey, California. The other is Alliant Tech Systems Inc of Hopkins, Minnesota. They were awarded a contract in 1992 for 9,598 cluster bombs – a total of almost two million BLUs – to replace the same type of weapons that were used up in the Gulf War the year before. Cluster bombs not only kill, it seems." http://www.commondreams.info/views02/0810-04.htm 1993 EPA The National Biennial RCRA Hazardous Waste Report (Based on 1993 Data) LIST OF LARGE QUANTITY GENERATORS IN THE UNITED STATES 661.300 http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/data/br93/lqg-pdf.pdf http://downey.kaiserpapers.info/aerojet.html 1994 Olin Ordnance, Marion, Ill., awarded a $20,999,934 modification to a firm fixed price contract for 160,317 cartridges, 25mm armor piercing fin stabilized, discarding sabot with tracer (APFSDS-T). 20% of the contract to be performed at Downey, California for U.S. Army Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command, Picatinny Arsenal, Ala. (DAAE30-95-C-0095). Work will be performed in Downey, California (84%) http://downey.kaiserpapers.info/aerojet.html http://www.defenselink.mil/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=857 1995 Olin Ordnance, Marion, Ill., awarded a $20,999,934 modification to a firm fixed price contract for 160,317 cartridges, 25mm armor piercing fin stabilized, discarding sabot with tracer (APFSDS-T). 20% of the contract to be performed at Downey, California for U.S. Army Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command, Picatinny Arsenal, Ala. (DAAE30-95-C-0095). Work will be performed in Downey, California (84%) http://downey.kaiserpapers.info/aerojet.html http://www.defenselink.mil/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=857 ASSESSMENT OF
CALIFORNIA
1,1,1-TRICHLOROETHANE USERS' WASTE STREAM / CWC: Halogenated solvents / CWC 211 COMMENTS: Ownership of this facility changed from Aerojet Ordnance Division to Olin Ordnance on April 30, 1994. During 1991, Aerojet’s production of Combined Effects Munitions program was reduced by 95 percent. This had a major effect in reducing all hazardous waste. 50 percent of the waste solvents, oils, and solids generated during 1990 were from this production area. As Aerojet’s new programs were started, production processes were implemented which would not generate large volumes of hazardous waste.http://downey.kaiserpapers.info/pdfs/olinsmunitions.pdf http://downey.kaiserpapers.info/pdfs/olinsmunitions.pdf 1996 North American was sold to Boeing. Downey and Canoga Park Rockwell Space Systems Division - Rocketdyne became Boeing North American, Inc. http://en.wikipedia.info/wiki/North_American_Aviation Olin Ordnance, Downey, California, was awarded on July 13, 1995, a $22,100,000 firm fixed price contract for 170,000 M919 25mm armor piercing, fin stabilized, discarding sabot with tracer, cartridges. http://downey.kaiserpapers.info/aerojet.html http://www.defenselink.mil/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=582 Olin Ordnance, Marion, Ill., awarded a $20,999,934 modification to a firm fixed price contract for 160,317 cartridges, 25mm armor piercing fin stabilized, discarding sabot with tracer (APFSDS-T). 20% of the contract to be performed at Downey, California for U.S. Army Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command, Picatinny Arsenal, Ala. (DAAE30-95-C-0095). Work will be performed in Downey, California (84%) http://downey.kaiserpapers.info/aerojet.html http://www.defenselink.mil/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=857 Olin Ordnance is a principal producer of conventional military ammunition in the U.S. and a premier international supplier. Primex Technologies will encompass Olin Ordnance's propellant, research and precision manufacturing facilities in St. Marks, Fla., Red Lion, Pa., Marion, Ill., and Downey, Calif. Olin's Winchester Division, which manages the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence, Mo., will also assume control of the government-owned, contractor-operated facility at Baraboo, Wis., which Olin Ordnance had been managing. http://downey.kaiserpapers.info/aerojet.html http://web.archive.info/web/20050921005032/http://www.shareholder.com/olin/news/101096g3.htm GAO report declaring NASA property excess land For over 60 years, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Industrial Plant, comprised of 160 acres in Downey, California, was home to aircraft, early rocket, and space shuttle testing and production. In 1996, NASA declared the property excess to GSA, making the property available for disposal. https://propertydisposal.gsa.gov/RedinetDocs/Env/ETAbrochure1b_for_web091004.pdf 1997 Primex
Technologies, Inc., Marion, Ill., was awarded on Sept. 5, a
$31,272,989 firm-fixed-price-negotiated contract for cartridge, 25mm
Armor Piercing, fin Stabilized, Discarding Sabor with Tracer (APFSDS-T)
M19, 249,088 rounds.
Work will be performed in Downey, Calif. (63%) and Marion, Ill. (37%),
and is expected to be completed by Feb 28, 1999.
Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
This is a sole source contract initiated on Sept 5, 1997 .
The contracting activity is the U.S. Army Tank Automotive &
Armaments Command, Picatinny Arsenal, N.J. (DAAE30-97-C-1088).
Olin
Ordnance, one of the
largest U.S.
munitions manufacturers, purchased Aerojet Ordnance in Downey,
California
in 1994.106 Aerojet had been a major
manufacturer
of mine components. WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a joint effort to halt an anticompetitive arrangement that cost taxpayers millions of dollars, the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense joined forces to take action against two major defense contractors for their illegal arrangement to supply bombs to the Department of Defense. The agencies' efforts will ultimately save the Defense Department $12 million. The Department's Antitrust Division filed a civil antitrust suit today against Alliant Techsystems Inc. and Aerojet-General Corporation for entering into a "teaming" arrangement that eliminated competition between the two companies in supplying the Department of Defense with cluster bombs. Under the arrangement, the companies agreed between themselves to submit one bid for the bombs contract instead of submitting two separate bids. At the same time, the Justice Department filed a proposed consent decree that, if approved by the court, would settle the suit. http://www.hrw.info/reports/1997/gen2/General2.htm http://downey.kaiserpapers.info/aerojet.html SEC Filing of 3/13/97 states: 7. Downey, California. (Manufacturing facility for medium caliber ammunition http://www.secinfo.com/dsvrt.8V7.8.htm#1stPage 1998 Primex Technologies Inc., Ordnance & Tactical Systems Division, Marion, Ill., is being awarded a $26,304,730 modification to a firm-fixed-price contract for 242,729 each 25 mm armor piercing, fin stabilized, discarding sabot-tracer cartridges. Work will be performed in Marion, Ill. (69%); and Downey, Calif. (31%), and is expected to be completed by April 28, 2000. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is a sole source contract initiated on May 14, 1998. The contracting activity is the U.S. Army Tank-automotive & Armaments Command, Picatinny Arsenal, N.J. (DAAE30-97-C-1088). http://www.defenselink.mil/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=1371 http://downey.kaiserpapers.info/aerojet.html Primex
Technologies, Inc., Marion, Ill., was awarded on Sept. 5, a
$31,272,989 firm-fixed-price-negotiated contract for cartridge, 25mm
Armor Piercing, fin Stabilized, Discarding Sabor with Tracer (APFSDS-T)
M19, 249,088 rounds.
Work will be performed in Downey, Calif. (63%) and Marion, Ill. (37%),
and is expected to be completed by Feb 28, 1999.
Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
This is a sole source contract initiated on Sept 5, 1997 .
The contracting activity is the U.S. Army Tank Automotive &
Armaments Command, Picatinny Arsenal, N.J. (DAAE30-97-C-1088).
Primex Technologies, Inc., Downey,
Calif., is being awarded a
$7,669,617 cost-plus-fixed-fee-supply contract for various assemblies
and subassemblies of the Distributed Explosive Technology system. Work
will be performed in Downey, Calif., and is expected to be completed by
December 1998. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current
fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with 30 proposals
solicited and three offers received. The Indian Head Division, Naval
Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, Md., is the contracting activity
(N00174-97-C-0030) http://downey.kaiserpapers.info/aerojet.html In 1998, as a result of restructuring within Boeing North American, the NASA industrial plant was determined to be "excess to the company’s needs," and was, therefore, also considered to be excess to the government’s needs, making it available for disposal by the federal government. http://www.downeyca.info/business_downeylanding_proj.php More on the sale of the NASA property and a nice history of the property. http://www.aerospacelegacyfoundation.info/CradleofCosmicAgev1.pdf 1999 PRIMEX Technologies Inc., Marion, Ill., is being awarded $16,766,112 (base year total) as part of a $62,574,148 firm-fixed-price contract for 159,600 M919Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized, Discarding Sabot with Tracer (APFSDS-T) 25 mm cartridges. Work will be performed in Marion, Ill. (75%), and Downey, Calif. (25%), and is expected to be completed by Aug. 31, 2000. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is a sole source contract initiated on July 29, 1999. The U.S. Army Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command, Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., is the contracting activity (DAAE30-99-C-1114). http://downey.kaiserpapers.info/aerojet.html http://www.defenselink.mil/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=1618 Primex
Technologies, Inc., Marion, Ill., was awarded on Sept. 5, a
$31,272,989 firm-fixed-price-negotiated contract for cartridge, 25mm
Armor Piercing, fin Stabilized, Discarding Sabor with Tracer (APFSDS-T)
M19, 249,088 rounds.
Work will be performed in Downey, Calif. (63%) and Marion, Ill. (37%),
and is expected to be completed by Feb 28, 1999.
Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
This is a sole source contract initiated on Sept 5, 1997 .
The contracting activity is the U.S. Army Tank Automotive &
Armaments Command, Picatinny Arsenal, N.J. (DAAE30-97-C-1088). http://www.columbiaspacescience.info/about/index.htm The City of Downey purchased an initial 66 acres of the site in 1999. However, soil and groundwater contamination prevented transfer of the remaining property. This posed a threat to the development of the site and to the local community. GSA suggested the use of ETA to help the City of Downey receive the remaining acreage before the cleanup was complete. The city entered into an innovative arrangement whereby it agreed to take on cleanup of the acreage in exchange for a reduction in the purchase price. https://propertydisposal.gsa.gov/RedinetDocs/Env/ETAbrochure1b_for_web091004.pdf 2000 PRIMEX Technologies Inc., Marion, Ill., is being awarded $16,766,112 (base year total) as part of a $62,574,148 firm-fixed-price contract for 159,600 M919Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized, Discarding Sabot with Tracer (APFSDS-T) 25 mm cartridges. Work will be performed in Marion, Ill. (75%), and Downey, Calif. (25%), and is expected to be completed by Aug. 31, 2000. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is a sole source contract initiated on July 29, 1999. The U.S. Army Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command, Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., is the contracting activity (DAAE30-99-C-1114). http://downey.kaiserpapers.info/aerojet.html http://www.defenselink.mil/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=1618 Qui Tam suit filed regarding Crime" and "covering-up" created by BOEING/TRW/NRC and some Government employees - from at least years 1996 - 1999. http://www.globalsecurity.info/space/library/news/2000/000203-trw.htm 2002 Further news information on the sale of the Downey Facility Property http://www.aerospacelegacyfoundation.info/page15.html 2003 Governor Gray Davis signed an early transfer of the former NASA Industrial Facility in Downey. "This transfer is good for the environment and good for the Southland's economy," said Gov. Davis. "Overcoming the final hurdle for this transfer paves the way for the creation of at least 4,000 new quality jobs and accelerates the cleanup of precious groundwater resources." http://www.downeyca.info/city_pr_transfer_gov.php Downey Studios sold to IRG reported on March 3, 2003 http://downey.kaiserpapers.info/march32003.html 2004 In October, 2004, both houses of Congress passed a resolution authored by US Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard and co-sponsored by the entire contingent of California representatives to Congress, naming Downey’s learning center the Columbia Memorial Space Science Learning Center (CMSSLC). Click here to read the text of the congressional act. 2005 Rocketdyne was sold by Boeing to UTC Pratt & Whitney, in 2005. http://en.wikipedia.info/wiki/North_American_Aviation Among the 14 sites “Prioritized Sites” identified, 7 are in the Los Angeles Region as follows: • Azuza Dump Site Owl 4x, Azusa • Air force Plan #16 (NASA), Downey (Now the site of Downey Landing) • Marquardt Ram Jet Dev facility, Van Nuys • Lockheed Air Terminal, Burbank • Pomona Ordinance Depot, Pomona (Now the site of the Los Angeles Fair Grounds) • Van Nuys AAF, Van Nuys • Los Angeles Defense Area Nike Battery 96, Whittier • Nike Battery- Los Pinetos, Newhall The Army Corp of Engineers (Corp) submitted a “Draft Final” perchlorate source evaluation report for each of the 7 sites in September 2005. In each case, the site was recommended for removal from the “Prioritized Sites” list. Staff completed an additional review on each case and recommend either “no further action” or additional assessment at these locations. Other sites from the list were also prioritized. Over 180 sites with lower risks remain unassessed. http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/rwqcb4/html/eo_reports/past_eo/06_0608_eorpt.pdf |