How Do I File A Foia Request For Herbicide Use With Dod

[AmicusBrief]

I'm trying to get DA 2785R and DD 1532 forms from 1973-75 used for herbicide application at Sierra Army Depot. They routinely sprayed the perimeter of the nuclear weapons storage areas to kill plant growth around the fences. The overspray would blow into the area and mist on everything. I understand they had to record the application under EPA rules. The herbicide training manual posted on the site shows that an individual was trained in the requirements in 1973. How do I get my hands on the required reports?

[Loose Cannon]

Check this link...Hope it helps you:

http://www.foia.gov/report-makerequest.html

LC

[AmicusBrief]

Thanks.

[john999]

Stay with this effort because if you can prove AO exposure it opens the door for many presumptive conditions.

[AmicusBrief]

I knew something was up back then. Aside from the spray on the exclusion areas we were receiving all the chemical shipments coming back from VN, Okinawa, and the rest of the Pacific theater. Many of the containers were corroded and leaking as well as mislabeled. I finally found documentation of this and TCE contamination of the ground water there. The document also mentions storage and processing of over 100,000 lbs of DDT as well as 1500 tons of "retrograde chemicals". The list encompasses 185 items (still trying to get the list) deemed hazardous. AO is specifically excepted but no mention is made of White or Blue. Several other areas are also mentioned in the report. The document is here:

http://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyNET.exe/910096MY.TXT?ZyActionD=ZyDocument&Client=EPA&Index=1976+Thru+1980&Docs=&Query=&Time=&EndTime=&SearchMethod=1&TocRestrict=n&Toc=&TocEntry=&QField=&QFieldYear=&QFieldMonth=&QFieldDay=&IntQFieldOp=0&ExtQFieldOp=0&XmlQuery=&File=D%3A%5Czyfiles%5CIndex%20Data%5C76thru80%5CTxt%5C00000011%5C910096MY.txt&User=ANONYMOUS&Password=anonymous&SortMethod=h%7C-&MaximumDocuments=1&FuzzyDegree=0&ImageQuality=r75g8/r75g8/x150y150g16/i425&Display=p%7Cf&DefSeekPage=x&SearchBack=ZyActionL&Back=ZyActionS&BackDesc=Results%20page&MaximumPages=1&ZyEntry=1&SeekPage=x&ZyPURL

Edited January 13, 2014 by AmicusBrief

[john999]

The Army had some crazy E-7 drink AO to prove it was harmless. Needless to say that guy is dead. I know a vet who says he helped bury AO on Okinawa. Is there proof of this if you know? He never had boots on the ground in Nam so you have to prove the exposure. We will all die from AO one day. If you don't get hit by a beer truck AO will probably kill you. Me too.

[davidlj1958]

Darn I know of the applications of the products at MCAS (H) Tustin down loaded the material and used it in my claims. But somehow it never was even addressed by the VA.

Prior to 1942, the Site, neighboring the Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Tustin Parcels and surrounding properties adjacent to MCAS Tustin were used for agricultural cultivation (EDR, 2007). As part of the agricultural activities, pesticides and herbicides were applied to the Site (Finding of Suitability to Transfer [FOST 2], 2001).

In 1942 the MCAS Tustin was constructed on neighboring parcels to the east. However, agricultural activities continued to be conducted on the Site until approximately 1968. In 1996, laboratory analysis of soil samples collected from areas to the west and northeast of the Site (Neighborhoods E and G) revealed dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), dichlorodiphenyldichloroethene (DDE), dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane (DDD), alpha-chlordane, dieldrin, endosulfan II, gamma-chlordane, methoxychlor and metals above the laboratory detection limits

(FOST 2, 2001).

In 1996, laboratory analysis of soil samples collected between 1-foot and 11-feet below ground surface from two borings advanced on Agricultural Area I (Parcel 6, approximately 50 acres) revealed DDE up to 7 micrograms per kilogram (ug/kg) and DDT up to 5 ug/kg in the 1-foot samples, which are below the 2005 California Human Health Screening Levels (CHHSLs) levels for residential use of 1,700 ug/kg. In addition, laboratory analysis of soil samples collected between 1-foot and 12-feet below ground surface from 9 borings advanced on Agricultural Area II (greater than

100 acres) revealed DDD up to 5 ug/kg, DDE up to 73 ug/kg, DDT up to 130 ug/kg, chlordane up to 0.88 ug/kg, dieldrin up to 4.3 ug/kg, endosulfan up to 38 ug/kg and methoxychlor up to 27 ug/kg (BNI, 1996).

In 2001, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), the California Regional Water Quality Control Board - Santa Ana Region (Regional Board) and the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) concurred with the Department of the Navy's (DoN) findings in the FOST that the former agricultural areas were suitable for transfer as unrestricted residential use (FOST 2, 2001).

However, the frequency and sample depths of the soil samples collected in 1996 are insufficient to characterize agricultural use areas under current DTSC guidance. In addition, information regarding the potential presence of pesticides in soil within areas that were previously used for agricultural cultivation, i..e., Parcels 4, 5, 7, 8 10 and 14 and subsequently developed as part of MCAS Tustin was not reasonably ascertainable.