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Office in Huntsville. They will all be available at the meeting to be held this evening. (Bethel Creek House) Mr. Bridgers recounted that in 1986, the Super Fund Amendments and Reauthorization Act created the Defense Environmental Restoration Fund (DERF). The program had two components. The installation/restoration portion dealt with active military installations and gave certain authorities to the base commanders for clean up of properties on his compound. The formerly used defense sites portion of the program was assigned to the ACOE for responsibility. Under the program, the ACOE would be responsible to inventory all properties that were formerly used by the Department of Defense (DOD) and no longer under their jurisdiction. The next phase would be to conduct a preliminary assessment of each site to make a determination if there are hazards on the properties and prepare an inventory project report. This report would include information concerning the findings and determination of eligibility on the parcel for remediation. The report would then go through the chain of command for approvals and then to be approved at the Washington level. Mr. Bridgers recalled that preliminary assessment for the Ft. Pierce project was begun in the 1990's by the Jacksonville ALOE. The report was prepared in 1991 and the project was approved sometime in 1991-1992. Since ordnance and explosive items were known to have been used in the area, Huntsville Engineering commissioned the St. Louis District of the ACOE to conduct an archive search at the local and national levels. They also came to the area and their findings were published in 1994, by the St. Louis District ACOE, in "U.S. Naval Amphibious Training Base - Ft. Pierce". The report was made available to Indian River and St. Lucie Counties since the project covered a two -county area as well as a small portion of Martin County. (Clerk's Note: Mr. Bridgers provided two documents for the record entitled Former Ft. Pierce Naval Amphibious Training Base and Fact Sheet Update (2/96) Former Ft. Pierce Naval Amphibious Training Base which have been placed on file with back u records in p the office of the Clerk to the Board.) Mr. Bridgers related that using the information in the report, the Huntsville Division then began the investigation of what they called an "environmental engineering evaluation and cost analysis" of the area. The development of the analysis required a more detailed site characterization. ESE, Inc. of Gainesville was under contract to Huntsville. They began the process of developing plans, and actually came to the area in March 1995 and began the site investigations. Public meetings were held before they started 74 MOK 1U0 FADE 9. 50 January 21, 1997 Ll