Location: Nationwide

The National Park Service (NPS), through its Environmental Management Program, identifies, tracks, and reports on the status of all Environmental Cleanup Liability (ECL) sites. The program is paramount for the NPS to determine the potential current and future liabilities associated with closure of ECL sites.

Baker was awarded a five-year, $2.5 million contract to provide technical support services for the NPS's ECL closure initiative. Baker's role is to evaluate the quality, accuracy, and completeness of data. Cost estimates for more than 50 sites at parks throughout all seven NPS regions have been reviewed in the first year. Baker has provided valuable information for a broad range of technical services.

Projects include an Asbestos Pilot Study initially focused on parks in the Intermountain Region; research on and summary of the complex investigative history at the Hudson River PCB Superfund Site to support ECL estimates at seven parks potentially impacted by the Hudson River; research on the investigative history at a Superfund Site in Charleston, South Carolina, to support cost recovery for Fort Sumter National Park; a forensic investigation of groundwater to determine NPS liability and potential cost recovery at a former fuel tank facility in Everglades National Park; and Preliminary Assessments/Site Inspections at multiple waste sites to support ECL estimates at Lake Mead National Park and other parks in the Pacific West.