As we reported earlier, the EPA allowed the Air Force to transfer a 62-acre parcel of the former McClellan Air Force Base in California to Sacramento County, prior to its removal from the Superfund site list. An EPA release states that a ceremony Aug. 27 “marked the first time that the military will fund a private party to conduct clean up in conjunction with redevelopment at a Superfund site.” The Air Force is paying the country $11.2 million, which the county will pay to McClelland Business Park to clean up the property. The base has been on the Superfund list since 1987. Since then the Air Force has been working the clean up of more than 300 contaminated sites at the former maintenance depot, and it will continue to clean up the rest of the 3,000-acre facility.
Due to the prolonged delay in deliveries of the Tech Refresh 3 version of the F-35 fighter, Denmark is pulling six of its TR-2-configured F-35 jets stationed in the U.S. back to home base in order to consolidate aircraft and get better training for its pilots and maintainers, the Danish…