Statement: The Navy is working with the Environmental Protection Agency to finalize its Five Year Review and Parcel G work plan for Hunters Point.

The focus of the collaboration with the EPA is to ensure the Parcel G work plan provides credible data about site conditions and to verify remediation efforts have met clean-up goals. The effort also includes analyzing program impacts from the Tetra Tech data falsification. Once work plan details are finalized the re-evaluation of this site will move forward. 

The Navy has proposed the use of RESRAD as part of the Hunters Point cleanup.  RESRAD is a regulatory tool developed by Argonne National Lab and is the Navy and environmental clean-up industry’s most trusted tool for determining radiological risk. It has been used for decades by the Navy BRAC program, U.S. Department of Defense, and the U.S. Department of Energy for radiological clean-up programs nationwide. The Navy believes it is the right tool to ensure the cleanup is completed properly at Hunters Point.

The Navy also sent a letter on 15 March to regulatory agencies about its intent to use RESRAD over the PRG calculator.

DOE and Argonne National Laboratory studies highlight the benefits RESRAD over other tools such as the Preliminary Remedial Goal (PRG) Calculator that was developed for use as a screening tool; however, the Navy will continue to work with the EPA on using the PRG Calculator at Hunters Point to complement the RESRAD tool.

Once the EPA approves the Navy’s updates to the Hunters Point work plan, the Navy is ready to begin radiological retesting of Hunters Point.