U.S. Navy Keyport permit renewal

Please review and comment on:

• Draft U.S. Navy Keyport Permit: 0utlines the conditions Keyport must follow to store their waste longer than 90 days.
• U.S. Navy Keyport Public Participation Plan (publication 24-04-012): Encourages community involvement and input in decision making.

How to submit comments

This public comment period opens April 8, 2024 and closes June 14, 2024.

Submit your comments:

• By online public comment form.
• By email to erika.lindsey@ecy.wa.gov.
• By mail (see address information below).

When the public comment period ends, we will consider all comments and may change the documents based on them. After considering all comments, the documents will become final.

Will there be a public meeting?

At this time, there are no public meetings scheduled for this comment period. We will hold a public meeting if 10 or more people request one. To request a meeting, please contact Janelle Anderson at 425-301-6454 or janelle.anderson@ecy.wa.gov.

Site background

The NUWC Division, Keyport dangerous waste management facility is located on property owned by Naval Base Kitsap, Keyport (NBK) near the town of Keyport, Washington. The waste facility is in a single building (often called building 1051 or the TSDF). The area of the building is approximately 68,500 square feet. Operating requirements in the draft permit apply only to this facility.

The entire base occupies 343 acres, and that entire area is subject to dangerous waste “corrective action.”  Corrective action means environmental remediation, or clean up, of contamination that has occurred. There is existing environmental contamination on the base. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designated the NUWC Division, Keyport Base a superfund site in 1989. 

The federal Superfund program and Washington State Model Toxics Control Act (MTCA) Cleanup Program have been working with the Navy since 1989 to clean up the base. We decided not to include that work in the draft permit because separate agreements control those actions.

For more information about the site and the history of contamination:

• Read our U.S. Navy Keyport public notice (publication 24-04-011).
• Go to our Keyport webpage.