Resilience office reports ongoing Yorktown hull cleanup funded by ARPA
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Summary
The Office of Resilience briefed the subcommittee on Yorktown remediation work, reporting removal of contaminated liquids and that roughly $100 million in ARPA funds were allocated to the project.
The Legislative Oversight Subcommittee received an update Oct. 12 on cleanup work aboard the USS Yorktown, where state contractors and agency staff have been removing contaminated liquids and ballast water as part of a remediation effort funded with ARPA dollars.
"We are working every day. We've removed, 202 hundred and 28000 gallons, from the ship, and this is, gallons that that that consist of, tank cleanup, 90 truckloads of contaminated liquids, 30 truckloads of processing facility, including a 69 gallons of contaminated liquids, and 810, thousand gallons of, of LTs," an agency representative said when briefing the committee. The transcript records repeated numeric phrasing and some transcription artifacts; the agency described the work as continuous removal and replacement of ballast water and contaminated liquids.
Committee members asked where funding for the project came from. "You all awarded $100,000,000 in ARPA funds, and that portion of it is coming from ARPA," the representative said.
Why it matters: Committee members noted the Yorktown hull is losing integrity and that remediation reduces pollution risk from oils and other contaminants to surrounding waters and shorelines.
The update was presented as informational; the committee did not take formal action during the meeting. Agency staff said they continue daily remediation work and are drawing on ARPA and related funds to complete the project.
The committee discussion then moved to other agenda items.
