Cleaning up History: Historic preservation at Formally Used Defense Sites

Summary

This is an abstract from the "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: A National Perspective on CRM, Research, and Consultation" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Alaska District's Formally Used Defense Site (FUDS) program conducts environmental remediation of abandoned World War II and Cold War era military facilities owned by federal, state, and local parties. These FUDS properties, which are often in remote locations, are associated with the release of hazardous materials like petroleum and lead. This paper presents on the Alaska District's efforts to identify and evaluate historic military sites in the Far North and minimize or mitigate any adverse effects to significant cultural resources, while addressing the need for a clean environment. Sites that have been the subject of FUDS remediation include NHLs at the Dutch Harbor Naval Operating Base, Adak Army Base and Naval Operating Base, Fort Glenn, Japanese’s Occupation Site, Kiska, and the Attu Battlefield, and NRHP-eligible properties at Chernofski Harbor and Cape Prominence and many other islands throughout the Aleutians and Alaska.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: A National Perspective on CRM, Research, and Consultation   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 26230