摘要：In September of 1994, the Army closed the Fort Ord Military Reservation, a Superfundsite of some 28,000 acres located in Monterey County, California. Under the Base Closureand Realignment Act, nearly all of this land will be transferred to federal and state entities andto a number of cities of the Monterey peninsula that border the base. A good deal of thisproperty is valuable real estate -- coastal dunes, golf courses, and barracks that can beconverted to apartments or dormitories. For the beneficiaries of these property transfers theFort Ord cleanup is a modern day gold rush that is taking place as part of a Superfundcleanup. What effect have economic development pressures had on the cleanup process andon decisions about cleanup standards. This case study addresses this question by examining:(i) how the legal requirements regulating cleanup, community involvement and reuse havebeen implemented by the Army and the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency; and (ii) theeffectiveness of two groups created by legislation to integrate reuse planning and cleanup --the Fort Ord Reuse Authority, an economic planning authority representing the area's localgovernments, and the Fort Ord Restoration Advisory Board, a citizens group mandated toadvise the Army about the cleanup process.
