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This is a list of Superfund sites in Texas designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
By the late 1980s, the EPA had detected copper, vinyl chloride, 1,1,2-trichloroethane, fluorene, styrene, ethylbenzene, toluene, benzene and other toxic chemicals, including numerous chlorinated volatile organic compounds (VOCs), in the air and groundwater. [3] [4] The EPA placed the Brio site on the National Priorities List in 1984.
These impurities can be naturally occurring and left unaltered in a material or be intentionally added during synthesis. These types of impurities can show up in our day-to-day lives such as different colors in gemstones or by doping to tune the conductivity of semiconductors. [5] [6] An example of when impurities are wanted is shown in gems.
In 1995, the United States government began realignment of military facilities. Kelly was closed in 2001, partially combined with Lackland Air Force Base. The remainder was taken over by the Greater Kelly Development Authority of the state of Texas and redeveloped as a commercial and military industrial center. [10]
Randolph Field Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing the central portion of Randolph Air Force Base, near San Antonio, Texas, US.Randolph Field was innovatively designed using Garden city movement principles, and includes a unique and well-preserved assemblage of Mission Revival and Art Deco architecture.
Manning, Thomas A. (2005), History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942–2002. Office of History and Research, Headquarters, AETC, Randolph AFB, Texas OCLC 71006954 , 29991467 Shaw, Frederick J. (2004), Locating Air Force Base Sites, History’s Legacy , Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, Washington DC.
The aircraft typically used by the vice president, a modified Boeing 757 known as Air Force Two, is a much smaller and more modest jet than the customized, military version of the Boeing 747 used ...
A C-119 Flying Boxcar, the type of plane used to release the chemicals. Operation LAC (Large Area Coverage) was a United States Army Chemical Corps operation which dispersed microscopic zinc cadmium sulfide (ZnCdS) particles over much of the United States and Canada in order to test dispersal patterns and the geographic range of chemical or biological weapons.