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Superfund Information Repositories and Administrative Records
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How the Air Force Manages George AFB Remediation Records: A Guide to the Four Information Repositories

March 20, 2026
1. AFCEC CERCLA Public Administrative Record (AR) The AR is the official, legally controlling record of the George AFB Installation Restoration Program (IRP). Under 40 CFR §300.800, the lead agency is required to establish an administrative record containing all documents that form the basis for selecting a response action. The AR is compiled, maintained, and continuously updated by the Air Force Civil Engineer [Read More…]
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George Air Force Base — Hazardous Site Contamination Report – 2015

March 15, 2026
Data from the Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP) in 2015 revealed that, for decades, residents and workers near George Air Force Base, Adelanto, the Victor Valley Country Club, and surrounding private homes and ranches were unaware of a toxic legacy contaminating the aquifer that supplied their drinking water. The source of the contamination was the Southeast Disposal Area’s unlined and unpermitted landfills, where [Read More…]
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Radioactive Contamination of Aircraft from Nevada Test Site Nuclear Testing

March 7, 2026
Aircraft involved in open-air nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) during the 1950s and 1960s that entered the nuclear clouds became heavily contaminated with short-lived isotopes, long-lived isotopes, Special Nuclear Material (SNM), and activated soil. Short-lived isotopes trapped in the oil and grease on returning aircraft posed an acute exposure risk to flight crews and ground personnel handling the aircraft upon [Read More…]
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US bases involved in the open-air nuclear test

March 7, 2026
Base Primary Role Aircraft (Type / Count) Operations / Series Primary Source(s) Indian Springs AFB, NV On-site AFSWC operating base; all NTS sampler aircraft departure / return / decontamination point Per shot: 5–7 F-84G / B-57B samplers + 1 B-57 control + 1–3 B-25 / B-29 / B-50 trackers + 2–3 C-47 couriers + 1–2 H-21 / H-19 helicopters (~12–16 aircraft per shot-day). [Read More…]
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Possible Laws Violated by Non-Disclosure of Contamination in Quitclaim Deeds

March 2, 2026
The Air Force and the Department of War (DoW) transferred property at the former George Air Force Base (AFB), a closed Superfund site, via quitclaim deed for Parcel B, which includes the radiological decontamination center (HOT wash rack), to the Southern California Logistics Airport Authority. Amazon and Goodyear have since developed warehouses on the site. Failure to disclose known or potential contamination, including [Read More…]
Aircraft returned to GAFB for decontamination
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George AFB’s Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Testing Decontamination Centers

March 1, 2026
If you lived or worked near the west side of George AFB, at an engine test cell, or in the weapons test bunker, you were likely exposed to unsafe levels of fission byproducts (radioactive dust) from decontaminating dozens of aircraft and equipment used in the open-air nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site (NTS). This exposure could potentially pose serious health risks to [Read More…]
January-June 1963 Inspections of Nuclear Activities at Manned Interceptor Squadrons
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Nuclear Weapons at George AFB

February 23, 2026
George AFB was one of 35 bases that had Fighter Interceptor Squadrons with air-to-air nuclear weapons for stopping enemy bomber attacks. Because legacy nuclear weapons required regular onsite maintenance, a considerable amount of radioactive contamination/waste would be generated during the polonium-beryllium (Po-Be) initiators’ replacement operation. The Air Force has repeatedly denied that there were any nuclear weapons at George AFB. Additionally, the Air Force [Read More…]
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Veterans And Their Families Are Being Denied Their Constitutional Right To Due Process

February 23, 2026
Like millions of veterans, I agreed to temporarily set aside my constitutional rights and protections during my military service or commission and to be subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Our constitutional rights and protections were supposed to be restored upon discharge. They were not. The Department of Veterans Affairs acts as the workers’ compensation provider for the Department of [Read More…]
RAM Contamination vs Exposure
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Is the VA defrauding veterans who were exposed to radioactive material (RAM)?

February 10, 2026
Is the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) defrauding veterans exposed to radioactive material (RAM) by denying medical care and compensation for their service-connected (SC) injuries? The answer is yes. Official VA sources and regulations list 21 presumptive cancers (often described as 21 in VA brochures and fact sheets, though some group urinary tract or lung types together, leading to slight variations, such [Read More…]
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91(B) RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL (RAM)

July 1, 2025
The term “91(b)” refers to highly classified radioactive material (RAM) covered under Section 91(b) of the Atomic Energy Act (AEA) of 1954 associated with current nuclear weapons material, legacy nuclear weapons maintenance wastes, residuals from nuclear weapons accident/incidents, some residuals from atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons, and residuals from nuclear reactor operations. 1.2.3. Installations located in the United States that possess residual 91(b) [Read More…]
The groundwater and soil are contaminated with radioactive waste
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Why did the US EPA remove any reference to the radioactive contamination at George AFB and other bases?

June 21, 2025
EPA’s Missing Records: A Cover-Up or Oversight? The US EPA has removed any references to radioactive materials or waste from its website for the following California Superfund sites: George Air Force Base, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, McClellan Air Force Base, Norton Air Force Base, Tracy Defense Depot, and El Toro Marine Corps Air Station. In 1991, the U.S. EPA documented radioactive waste as [Read More…]
An open letter from the Gomez Trial Attorneys to Senators Feinstein and Padilla
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An open letter from the Gomez Trial Attorneys to Senators Feinstein and Padilla

June 14, 2025
Re: Robert Anderson, et al v. The United States of America 2:21-cv-09102-VAP-PD Dear Senators Feinstein and Padilla, We represent individuals and families whose lives have been devastated by our Nation’s failure to warn them of the dangers of exposure to hazardous materials and waste while they lived and/or worked on the former George Air Force Base. Unfortunately, these families are not alone. There [Read More…]
Contamination at U.S. Military Bases Profiles and Responses
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Seeking Justice

May 8, 2025
When we (the injured) seek justice for our injuries through the courts, we are told that our case has no standing because of the Statute of Limitations, Feres Doctrine, and/or the sovereign immunity clause of the Federal Torts Claim Act (FTCA). How can the DOJ/DOD argue that the Statute of Limitations has expired when rogue employees within the DOD conspired to and did [Read More…]
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Environmental Assessment / Timeline

October 21, 2024
1971 Hq USAF survey letter – Radioactive Waste Disposal, Hq, SCN 71-28 -AF – 19 Feb 71 George AFB was notified by HQ USAF that that all of its radioactive waste burial sites were to be accounted for, fenced off, and clearly marked. 1972 The USAF report “Burial of Radioactive Waste in the USAF,”, 15 March 1972, predates the first record in the George AFB [Read More…]
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Federal Agencies Can And Do Lie

August 25, 2024
FOIA 5 USC 552(c) exempts information from disclosure.  For some national security (nuclear weapons – 91b radioactive material) & law enforcement content, the agency can legally lie to you about its nonexistence, 5 USC 552(c) – on top of Glomar (“can’t confirm or deny”) responses. To avoid both of these scenarios, exclusions authorize the agency to “treat the records as not subject to [Read More…]
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Environmental Statutes and Executive Orders

April 24, 2023
The former Victorville Army Air Field/Victorville Air Force Base/George Air Force Base (George AFB) is a Superfund site (EPA ID: CA2570024453) and one of the most contaminated military bases in the country. The following is a list of Executive Orders and federal environmental laws most likely violated. Executive Orders EO 11258 –  on November 17, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive Order—Prevention, [Read More…]
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Cushman v. Shinseki, 576 F.3d 1290 (Fed. Cir. 2009)

June 8, 2021
In 2009, the Federal Circuit held in Cushman v. Shinseki that applicants for veterans‘ benefits have a constitutionally protected property interest in their application for benefits. Accordingly, such applicants are entitled to constitutionally prescribed procedures in connection with their claims for benefits under the terms of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Ninth Circuit also found that Mr. Cushman’s medical record had been [Read More…]
Primer On Federal Facility Compliance With Environmental Laws Where Do We Go From Here
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Primer On Federal Facility Compliance With Environmental Laws: Where Do We Go From Here?

January 30, 2021
Look, Buster, don’t bug me with your crap about permits. I’m building nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, some of the worst [environmental] offenders are our own federal facilities. As President, I will insist that in the future federal agencies meet or exceed environmental standards: The government should live within the laws it imposes on others. Pollution caused by facilities owned or operated by various federal [Read More…]
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DoDs Opportunity To Clean Up Its Hazardous Waste Act

January 6, 2021
ABSTRACT: The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980 was enacted to address the serious problem of hazardous waste contamination in the United States. Although the program has achieved some success, it has failed to achieve its primary purpose – the permanent cleanup of inactive and abandoned hazardous waste sites. With the taxing authority of CERCLA set to expire on [Read More…]
sampling for perchlorate was unnecessary
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DoD – Report to the Congress Perchlorate in the Southwestern United States

July 3, 2020
In 2005, the DoD/Air Force deliberately misled Congress about the possibility of perchlorate from George AFB contaminating the aquifer used for drinking and irrigation water. As early as 1982, the DoD knew that there were several sources for perchlorate contamination in the Southeast Disposal Area (SDEA). The SEDA is about a ¼ mile upstream of the drinking and irrigation water supply wells for [Read More…]
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SAIC Admits To Falsifying Radiological Testing Results At George AFB

December 7, 2019
In 1991, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) pleaded guilty to defrauding the government by falsifying testing of samples at DoD Superfund sites.  SAIC was responsible for the radiological testing done at George AFB’s Weapons Storage and Assembly Area (WSA) and radioactive disposal site (RW-09). Air Force acknowledged that it routinely withheld classified information and records about Buried Radioactive Weapons Maintenance Waste at its [Read More…]
Status of DOD Efforts to Address Drinking Water Contaminants Used in Firefighting Foam
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2018-09-26 GAO – Status of DOD Efforts to Address Drinking Water Contaminants Used in Firefighting Foam

November 29, 2018
The GAO report “Status of DOD Efforts to Address Drinking Water Contaminants Used in Firefighting Foam” fails to address the known PFOA and PFOS contamination of the soil and groundwater at the DoD Superfund site George Air Force Base, CA “EPA Superfund ID: CA2570024453.” Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs or what is now called PFOA and PFOS) were detected as high as 5,396 parts per [Read More…]
Firefighting Foam in the SEDA
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George AFB’s Perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) – PFAS

November 7, 2017
The Air Forced just released the test results for PFAS at private and municipal supply wells near the southeast corner of George AFB, where the production wells for George AFB were located.  ALL of the wells that were tested had detectable levels of PFAS, and one well exceeded the US EPA health advisory (HA) level of 70 ppt.  These results are significant because, [Read More…]
CERCLA §120(h) - Deed Restrictions
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1980-12-11 – CERCLA §120(h) Deed Restrictions – Special Nuclear Material

June 24, 2017
Because all activities supporting the nuclear defense program are highly classified to protect national security Congress included a provision in the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) that requires the DOD to withhold information and records about Special Nuclear Material at its Superfund sites.  This requirement creates a unique set of problems for the DOD; Federal, State, and Local regulators when trying [Read More…]
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We are the men and women of the U.S. Military

December 14, 2015
We enlisted or were commissioned in the military to protect the United States, pledging to defend our nation and, if necessary, to sacrifice our lives for the country we love. However, we did not consent to being exposed to toxins due to government negligence, nor did we agree to our spouses and children being exposed to hazardous substances. In many cases, the Department [Read More…]
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George AFB’s Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP)

December 15, 2014
Victorville Army Airfield / George Air Force Base (AFB) used organochlorine pesticides, before they were banned, to protect its buildings against termites and other pests. The following pesticides and their breakdown products were detected under and around the George AFB Family Housing: aldrin, chlordane, DDT, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, and lindane. The levels of aldrin, dieldrin, and chlordane and their breakdown products were so [Read More…]
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Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) – radioactive material (RAM)

October 1, 2014
Fourteen of the forty Air Force bases that were closed and transferred or are in the process of being transferred to the public are potentially contaminated with highly classified 91 (b) radioactive material (RAM), and seven are in CA. Forty-six Air Force bases reported having radioactive disposal sites and nine of these Air Force bases were former Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) sites. “Burial [Read More…]
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Is George AFB the Air Force’s Camp Lejeune?

August 23, 2014
Is the former George Air Force Base, CA, “EPA Superfund ID: CA2570024453, ″ the Air Force’s Camp Lejeune?  Yes! Some people have asked why it is taking so long to get help for the families of George AFB.  At some point, senior management within the DOD made a decision that it was more important to cover up the problem at its contaminated bases than [Read More…]
Radioactive Waste Disposal Site at George AFB SEDA
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George AFB’s Weapons Storage and Assembly Area and Southeast Disposal Area

April 20, 2014
The Southeast Disposal Area’s RW-09 radioactive disposal site is physically located about a ¼ mile upstream of the Drinking Water Supply Wells for George AFB, Adelanto, CA, several homes, and the former Victor Valley Country Club.  Unfortunately, the groundwater flows northeast from the SEDA, directly toward these drinking water supply wells.  This created a potential exposure to tens of thousands of civilians, and military [Read More…]
George AFB HTRW Sites Lahontan RWQCB
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George AFB’s Hazardous Toxic and Radioactive Waste Sites

March 21, 2014
Potential Contaminants of Concern at the former George Air Force Base, CA, “EPA Superfund ID: CA2570024453” Asbestos Containing Materials (ACM), Aviation [Avgas], Benzene, Chlordane, Diesel, Explosives (UXO, MEC) [Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) / Munitions and Explosives of Concern (MEC)], Gasoline, Heating Oil / Fuel Oil, MTBE / TBA / Other Fuel Oxygenates, Munitions Debris (MD), Nitrate, Other Insecticides [Dieldrin] / Pesticide / Fumigants / Herbicides, Other [Read More…]