Notice of 45 Day Public Comment Period - Closure of Palm Enterprises Treatment Facility at Detachment

Department of Toxic Substances Control__________________________________________________Edwin F. Lowry, Director1011 N. Grandview AvenueGlendale, California 91201Winston H. Hickox Gray DavisAgency Secretary GovernorCalifornia Environmental Protection AgencyApril 22, 2002To the Public Notice Mailing List for the Palm Enterprises Treatment Facility, NavalWeapons Station Seal Beach, Detachment Fallbrook, California:PUBLIC REVIEW AND COMMENT REQUESTED Closure of Former Palm Enterprises Hazardous Waste Treatment Facility The Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) invites the public to review andcomment on three documents related to the recent closure of the former Palm EnterprisesHazardous Waste Treatment Facility at Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, DetachmentFallbrook, California. These documents are a draft Closure Plan, draft ClosureCertification Report, and draft Negative Declaration. Palm Enterprises operated for one year in 1989 as a hazardous waste facility todemilitarize and recycle napalm canisters at the Fallbrook detachment of the NavalWeapons Station. This is not the napalm facility that had been in the news in recent years. That facility was at a different location at Fallbrook, and was closed in April 2001 afterthree years of operation and the completion of the napalm canister deactivation andrecycling program. The draft Closure Plan describes the procedures used to remove, process, and dispose ofall hazardous waste ...