Project Information

This page contains project-related information such as the organizations involved in the project and ongoing project activities. Project documents available on this web site will include fact sheets about project activities, media releases, the Community Involvement Plan, and other documents thought to be of interest to the public. Please check back periodically for any additions to this page.

The currently defined project area is located on approximately 200,000 acres (or about 312 square miles) of the White River and San Isabel National Forests. The project site is located in Eagle, Summit, Pitkin, and Lake Counties, between the towns of Red Cliff and Leadville, and extends from the eastern side of the Tenmile Range to the Mount of the Holy Cross (see vicinity map, PDF - 697kb). For additional project site information, please see the History page of this web site.

The majority of the land within the Camp Hale boundaries is managed by the U.S.D.A. Forest Service (Forest Service) and located in the White River, San Isabel, and Arapaho National Forests. There also are some small private land holdings within the various National Forests where Camp Hale is located.

The USACE completed an Inventory Project Report on 6 April 1998 which established Camp Hale as a Formerly Used Defense Site (FUDS). The Camp Hale project site is administered under the FUDS program, which was formed as part of the 1986 amendment to CERCLA and assigned to the Department of Defense. The FUDS program is designed to address risks to human health and the environment due to past military activities in an area.

Project Team

The following agencies and companies are involved in this project and their roles and responsibilities are as follows:

• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE, Omaha District). The Omaha District has overall management, contractual, and funding responsibility. The USACE conducts the environmental cleanup work on former military land under the FUDS program.
• U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service (Forest Service). Forest Service owns and manages the majority of the land within the Camp Hale FUDS boundary.
  
• Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE). CDPHE is responsible for regulatory oversight for the State of Colorado.
  
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). USEPA is the Federal regulatory agency.
  
• Shaw Environmental, Inc. (Shaw). Shaw is a contractor to the USACE and is responsible for all aspects of munitions investigation and removal work.
  
• Sky Research, Inc. (Sky). Sky is a contractor to the USACE and is responsible for providing airborne remote sensing services, as well as managing the geographical information system database used for this project.
  

Administrative Record

The Administrative Record is the collection of documents the Corps used to make project-related decisions. An Administrative Record is kept in a centralized location(s) where the public can access and review documents related to a response action. The Administrative Record Index is provided on the Project Documents page. This Administrative Record is maintained throughout the project and has been established at the following locations: