Naval Shipyard Base Realignment and Closure: The Environmental Remediation Effort

Mare Island Naval Shipyard was placed on the "Fast Track" toward military base closure as of October 1993. All ship projects will end by April 1995. The base will close in April 1996. This paper discussesthe cooperative efforts of the Federal, state and local authorities, and the shipyard, to quickly turn over the yard for effective civilian reuse; andthe shipyard effort to train and utilize the existing workforce as a major element in the environmental remediation effort—to both prepare the facility for reuse and to prepare the workforce for reemployment.