island is not what is like found in the country on all navy military bases, the navy's clean up is cleaned up under the compensation liability act with direct oversite by the state's department of toxic substances control and with respect to raid yol logical control and protection, the department of public h*ement, dtfc has gone on record saying that based on currently available information, there's no human health risks to working, and visiting treasure island, and if there were an issue, they would be aggressive in looking at that, the department of public health went out to treasure island and conducted surveys and scans independent of the navy's investigation of the girls and boys club, the daycare center and community housing partners, facilities and one of the areas that's been identified as having potential raid yol logical contamination, all scans of these areas showed no raid yol logical contamination, wipes also showed no signs of radiological contamination, staff has asked cdph to go out and conduct additional surveys and investigations separate and apart and independent of the

department of public health went out to treasure island and conducted surveys and scans independent of the navy's investigation of the girls and boys club, the daycare center and community housing partners, facilities and one of the areas that's been identified as having potential raid yol logical contamination, all scans of these areas showed no raid yol logical contamination, wipes also showed no signs of radiological contamination, staff has asked cdph to go out and conduct additional surveys and investigations separate and apart and independent of the navy's investigations of all areas that were identified by the navy in their draft report by being potentially contaminated by radiological material. i do want to stop there and talk a little bit about terminology. the navy's draft report identifies 9 new areas on treasure island that are raid logically impacted, that is a term that's used by the regulatory act sis and the navy to mean that these areas have the potential for being contaminated by radiological materials, it does not mean that contamination has been found, it also does not mean th

navy is going to investigate. they are doing their work, and investigating them. there is not going to be any development until the navy has finished all their investigation, and then all of the regulatory agencies have signed off that everything has been done correctly. during the investigation phase, the navy will control the area, have fences, do air monitoring. the cdph and the other regulatory agencies will verify that they're doing that. there is no chance of contamination going outside of the area, that the navy will control during their work. and then when it is all done, and signed off, and cdph will give a free release letter that says all the work is done, there is no contamination left, everything is same as background, basically. that's called a free release. only at that point would the property then transfer, and be used by tida and developed. there will be no development until the navy has signed off on all the radiological issues. >> supervisor campos: well i appreciate all the work and i think th

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and the british royal navy. the thing that most struck me in researching, you know, americans have always said that there was a second front in world world war ii and it was along the washington, d.c. arm any v army air force. in tokyo inner service rivalry was a full contact sport. the japanese cordially detested each other. they spoke to each other as little as possible, and institutionally they were so far removed, and as pilot that makes my brain hurt. the japanese army, air force was heavily influenced by the french dating from about the period of world world war i. in french aircraft in that era, you pull the throttle back to accelerate but the japanese navy was heavily influenced by the british whale navy which is common sen for the standard push to go throttle. so i couldn't help but wondering how interesting must it have been to be in a joint aviation con friday when they were in huffing contests. [laughter] >> very nice, sir. do you want to answer questions? >> yes. anybody have questions? i'll be deli

i have 19 years of reviewing navy cleanup. as you're aware the navy has been conducting and is operating the facilities at the -- they're in charge of the facilities at treasure island, and they've been conducting cleanup at treasure island since the mid-1990's under protocols established by the comprehensive response compensation and reliability act. the oversight agency for this work monitoring what the navy is doing is the california department of toxic substances control. and with respect to radiological protection, the california department of public health oversees that aspect. there are two other regulatory agencies also involved in overseeing all the navy's work and they oversee various aspects of the cleanup. those are the regional water quality control board and the united states environmental protection agency. these agencies review the navy's work plans prior to them conducting the work. they review all the data after the work is done, and verify that it is correct. and they verify that air monitoring and fences an

navy must act as a single unit. the panama canal would make as with gathering of the fleet practical. without panama canal america would be forced to build and maintain to entire fleets, one for each ocean to protect its thousands of miles of coastline. franklin and two traveling companions, his brother-in-law and fellow member of the new york senate arrived in april april 1912 attached to the roosevelt name and given vip treatment. after touring the atlantic terminus that travel 50 miles by train to panama city on the pacific coast, bombast nature of the enterprise. my last "here. the enormous size and vast ambitions of the canal would not become truly evident until the next morning. the three were taken on a guided tour of the great cut, nearly 9 miles in length. it was here that most of the 65,000 men in the workforce were literally moving mountains with the battle for the canal. gigantic steam shovels purpose built for the unprecedented work tower over the landscape loading 6-ton boulders on the flat cars were t

their cleanup to question all their reports testing an analysis to make sure that the navy fulfills their obligation to clean up treasure island, it is committed to upholding the highest standards to make sure health and safety is protected both today and in the future, we are committed to holding a meeting with the navy and the regulatory agencies down on treasure island and are working with them to schedule that, we'll continue to work with your office and we are committed to answering any and all questions that have been raised. >> and michael, i appreciate that, i know we're working to organize this meeting, i think the biggest question that comes to my mind is how we're going to keep the navy accountable because certainly the navy's liable for the cleanup, i think we're all aware of that and i'm appreciative that the california department of health has been doing the additional work to survey that area to ensure the navy is doing the cleanup that they are liable to do but that doesn't take away the concerns from the residents, i think they know we've been responsive in trying t

california department of health has been doing the additional work to survey that area to ensure the navy is doing the cleanup that they are liable to do but that doesn't take away the concerns from the residents, i think they know we've been responsive in trying to answer the questions as best we can, we haven't seen the evidence yet but there's not evidence to the contrary, there's no evidence supporting it and there's not evidence that has confirmed that the area is safe, so i think residents want to see how the city is going to work to protect and keep the navy accountable if -- through the work they are required to do on the island. >> so, when we became aware of this information, we engaged the san francisco department of public health to work with our own independent environmental engineering consultants who we've had on board for ten years to again give us guidance for the regulatory framework and the process between the california department of toxic substance control and california department of public health and making sure that these issues were addressed, both today during th

area is safe, so i think residents want to see how the city is going to work to protect and keep the navy accountable if -- through the work they are required to do on the island. >> so, when we became aware of this information, we engaged the san francisco department of public health to work with our own independent environmental engineering consultants who we've had on board for ten years to again give us guidance for the regulatory framework and the process between the california department of toxic substance control and california department of public health and making sure that these issues were addressed, both today during their cleanup and going forward through the transfer process and the city has negotiated with the navy assurances that prior to transfer of any property we will have rin assurance or concurrence from the regulatory agencies that the navy that completed all of the remediation responsibilities to the satisfaction of those agencies. >> thank you, and i think there probably will be some follow up questions on to that, i do want to allow the presentations of the amendm

island is not what is like found in the country on all navy military bases, the navy's clean up is cleaned up under the compensation liability act with direct oversite by the state's department of toxic substances control and with respect to raid yol logical control and protection, the department of public h*ement, dtfc has gone on record saying that based on currently available information, there's no human health risks to working, and visiting treasure island, and

navy, but the army and british royal navy. the thing that struck me, you know, americans have always said there was a second front in world war ii, and it was along the to toe mack in -- potomac in washington, d.c. with army versus army/air force. but in tokyo interservice rivalry was practically a full-contact sport. the imperial navy and the japanese army cordially detested each other, they spoke to each other as little as possible, and institutionally they were so far removed -- and as a pilot, this just makes my brain hurt -- the japanese army/air force was heavily influenced by the french dating from around about the period of world war i. well, in french aircraft of that era you pull the throttle back to accelerate. but the japanese navy was heavily influenced by the british royal navy which uses the common sense, the standard push to go throttle. so i couldn't help but wondering how interesting must it have been to be at a joint aviation conference when japanese army and navy pilots were hopping cockpits? it could have

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navy at guadalcanal." he spoke as part of the toronto called the symposium hold in norwich in northfield vermont. this is about 55 minutes. >> good afternoon. it is my distinct pleasure to present to you at our colby symposium, writer and speaker, james hornfischer. hornfischer is quickly establishing himself as doing for the navy of popular historian stephen ambrose said for the army. this quote is from the rocky mountain news and they feel mr. hornfischer are aptly describes in very well. mr. hornfischer is the author of three, one samuel eliot wars and the word for naval literature and was recently named a naval history magazine as one of a dozen all-time naval classes. his second book, ship of ghosts about the cruiser uss houston is a selection of the history books and the military book club and the winner and 2007 at the night to maritime literature award. his most recent book, "neptune's inferno" published by bantam in 2011 is a major new talent of the auto canal naval campaign. now president of the

some of it is the navy, some of it gets passed onto tida. in the future in the city were to accept the utilities in the state they're in now, it could be that you would have to make overriding considerations of accepting sup standard utilities and how do we invest in those, whether it's the puc or the city's general fund and that's the question we haven't answered yet. >> supervisor avalos: so we could very well have a significant impact to the general fund, and if not, how -- what constraints are there for the puc to be able to take over such utilities, and have the financial wherewithal to do that? >> right. that's one of the issues that we need to discuss, especially on the water and sewer side because we're constrained by -- unless the city actually owns the utilities about capital fund on the utilities because of state law. we can't have our ratepayers subsidizing other ratepayers thp they're not puc ratepayers. >> supervisor avalos: so that's still being worked out. >> that's correct. to supervisor kim's questions there are two federal

assisting the authority and property negotiations with the navy. this is an increase of $238,400 from the previously authorized amount. amec geomatrix is expected to work on items related to oversight of the navy's remediation program at a cost of approximately $20,000 per month. the contract will continue to be paid on time and materials basis and turmoil be extended through june 30, 2013. the budget analysts has recommended approval and pointed out in the report that the contract was previously governed by titlist purchasing. in january 2012, the board of supervisors rescinded titus as a development agency and they're bringing it back into compliance with the city purchasing policy. we're asking this committee to approve this amendment now as it's critical for the service and oversight of the navy activity go on uninterrupted as we are fast approaching the first substantial transfer of property from the navy to the city. furthermore, the importance of retaining continuity of the navy's environmental program, the potential problems associated with

our office is cohosting a meeting with tida and the navy next tuesday, september 18 at 7 pm on treasure island. and i'm not sure if we will be able to address all the concerns residents have but we will be there to answer questions and get feedback on where we would like to see the efforts the city makes to advocate on behalf of our residents at that meeting. i don't know if ms. brown if you have anything to add to that. >> thank you, supervisor kim. yes. the meeting will be held next tuesday. representatives from the navy will be conducting the meeting and representatives will be there from cdph and dtfc. i will be there. in addition there was a letter sent to all the residents with this information, and maps, and information about what's going on. so tida has been keeping the residents up to date and this additional meeting will be another venue for them to hear the information. >> supervisor olague: transparency is important, obviously. thank you. >> president chiu: colleagues, any additional questions to city staff? supervisor kim. >> supervisor kim: no additional questions. i do wa

concurrent with the base closure the city and county entered into a co-op agreement with the navy for services including operation of maintenance and utilities, police and fire, grounds and street maintenance, property management, and care take services. then tida entered into master leases with the navy to sublease properties and buildings for commercial use, maritime use and special event use, specifically those are the master leases before you today, the southern waterfront master lease, the childcare development center, events venue, land and structures, and maritime leases. tida, in turn, subleases these properties and -- to generate revenue to offset costs associated with the property management and municipal service obligations of the co-op agreement including leases for housing, commercial, and special event. some subleases are for public service and do not generate income like to our nonprofits, little league, boys and girls club, were to open spaces. housing and commercial leases generate millions of dollars each year for tida's operations to pay for the day-to-day spending.

is the navy working to work around that? >> the navy is exceptionally concerned about the work load on the ships. they have very small crews. everything about the ships was that they are small ships built to a tight budget. so they are very minimal. normally, when you have a ship, you have a number of people who operate the systems, but there's also a lot of people who maintain the systems, keep things working, repair them, keep them in functioning order. when you are out at sea, nobody's going to make a house call. >> right. >> you've got to get somebody on board who can fix something. these ships have very small crews. 40 people is the core crew. it is a ship of operators. they don't have too many people to fix things. >> right. >> because of that, the effect on the crews is really extreme. so the navy's done a number of studies about manning, and they've determined, for example, that three days of low level operations on an l.c.s. equals three days of high-tempo operations. >> the key to the program are the mission module

>> has this navy seal, do you believe, put other navy seals and other members of the military in danger? >> i think when someone who signs an obligation that he will not reveal the secrets of this kind of operation and then doesn't abide by the rules, that when he reveals that kind of information, it does indeed jeopardize other operations and the lives of others that are involved in those operations. >> how does it jeopardize future operations? >> i think when somebody talks about the particulars of how those operations are conducted, what that does is it tells our enemy enemies essentially how we operate and what we do to go after them, and when you do that, you tip them off. >> do you think his life is in danger now? >> he was very much a part of the operation that got bin laden. there's no question that that should make him concerned. makes us concerned about his safety. >> let's talk about defense spending. you recommended about $500 billion in defense cuts. but now we're facing across the board defense cuts in addition to that as part of this defense sequestration. >> i'm very con

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>> was i getting it all to the navy? >> yes, were you giving it all or primarily for the navy? >> now, the navy has nothing to do with it. i mean, the navy, i talked to a few times, i started to get some documentation or information. i had to freedom of information act -- three freedom of information act requests behind this thing. it was kind of a bureaucratic communication that way but my information all came from things like the lost reel to reel tapes. the interviews. and as i say, i had help from somebody at the library of congress to scour the archives to see what is the sealab archives are as far as anyone could tell there wasn't one. so what i have to go on as a journalist i was kind of able to dig up. >> it must have led you in the wrong direction because from your research, from their research at sealab, did they send information directly to the navy? wasn't secured kind of information on that research? >> yes. so yeah, the first couple of sealab's were run by the office of naval research so they were producing reports and they were learning everything that the was to

film makerr used us navy ships off the east coast. navy seals are working as technical advisors. next up the marcus luttrell story. luttrell a navy seal,,was the only survivor of a 2000 afghanistan mission in which 199navy and army commandos died. a movie based on his book lone survivor is also likely to get military help. but is aal now too much hollywood? former navy seallharry huuphries was a consultant on black hawk down and mmny other &pproductions. he says some projects are telling too many too much that is being gotten - discussed about a community phat lives on the fact that its' a group offfolks that thrive on the concept of silent pride. the deeate &perupted after publication of no easy day. seen here in a 60 pinutes interviiw is author matt bissonnete a seal who was on thh bin laden raid. admiral william mcraven, who heads speccal operations coommnd has i mean, arr people affecced . - out? you bet they are. are ms - lives t risk? absolutelyy ironically mcrrven's interest in joining the military came after seeing hii movie (nats) john wayne's 1998 film green (nats) for

>> has this navy s.e.a.l., do you believe, put other navy s.e.a.l.s and other members of the military in danger? >> i think when someone who signs an obligation that he will not reveal the secrets of this kind of operation and then does that and doesn't abide by the rules, that when he reveals that kind of information, it does, indeed, jeopardize other operations and the lives of others that are involved in those operations. >> how does it jeopardize future operations? >> i think when somebody talks about the particulars of how those operations are conducted. what that does is it tells our enemies, essentially, how we operate and what we do to go after them. and when you do that, you tip them off. >> do you think his life is in danger now? >> he was very much a part of the operation that got bin laden. you know, there's no question that that should make him concerned. makes us concerned about his safety. >> let's talk about defense spending. you recommended about $500 billion in defense cuts. congress passed those defense cuts. but now you're facing across the board defense cuts in ad

the navy uses it, as far as, the navy went on to use it for clandestine deep diving operations. the offshore oil industry picked up on it right away because it was moving into deeper water just at the time sealab is coming of age. and it needed underwater workforce. it needed construction workers who could work for long hours at deeper depths than ever before. this is how you do it. those guys are out there today doing work that we don't see, worked we don't know in crazy places like the bottom of the north sea and rather insane conditions. and they are there as this program, and there is only one remaining u.s. sponsored sea-based in existence, which probably most people don't know or can't name. it's the underwater version of the international space station essentially. it's owned by the national oceanic and atmospheric administration, noaa, and managed by university of north carolina, it's called aquarius and it's been in operation for about 20 years there for scientific purposes largely, and it's a descendent of sealab. and a significant one to the people who use it. there w

for tonight's "60 minutes," scott pelley interview mark owen, the navy seal who has a new book out called "no easy day." owen is a fictitious name. he's trying to protect his identity as he reveals that he's one of the seals who shot bin laden. tonight we're going to learn one of the most important people also involved in the raid was a woman, a cia analyst named jen, who briefed the navy seals about the raid. here's more from tonight's interview. >> i can't give her enough credit. i mean, she, in my opinion, she kind of ted teeeds this this whe thing, wicked smart, kind of feisty. and we'd always talk back and forth-- "what do you think the odds of this are? what do you think the odds of that are? what do you think? 100%?" >> pelley: and you thought what? >> we'll see. >> scott pel seback with us to talk about the other big interview he's been working on, this one for tonight's smipt. and, scott, what a fascinating detail about all the people involved in this raid. i did not know about this cia analyst, a woman who briefed these navy seals on just about every detail. >> pelley: well, tha

sis here's in the military, so i can join navy federal too. he's getting a great rate - so now he can drive himself to laser tag. it's a real sport. no, its not. 4 million members. 4 million stories. navy federal credit union. >>> general mark welsh became the 20th chief of staff on august 10 starting the tenure with major challenges. for starters, congress rejected 9 billion dollars in cuts mandated by the obama administration under the terms of the budget control act to protest the air force desense to cut guards and units and leadership and pen knell issues as well as risk of billions in automatic defense cuts that could hit the services key acquisition programs. here to talk to us about welsh's challenges and priorities is chuck wald retired four star general the director of the defense practice at the federal government services. welcome back i should say. >> thanks good to see you. >> what are the cheal exthe new chief face -- challenges the new chief faces. >> you mentioned a couple. it's budgetary issues and recap tallation of the flee

so the navy can fire if farther distances? how do we look at extending the range of -- of isr platforms? how do we look at sharing data of these extended range platforms in a way that we can't today? i look at air sea battle not as a large complex, a magical undertaking, a lot like air land battle which happened from if mid '70s to the mid '80s which took some years where we started to see capability that was affecting the air force's capability to help the ground. and really 25 years later now we're seeing it on the battlefield in afghanistan. >> are you going to be making investments to help your navy brothers and they're going to be helping you owl? >> i hope so. i don't know. i think this is going to get caught up in the same debate and each service is going to have to decide which is the higher priority for us. my personal view is if it's beneficial, i have no problem pushing to get our secretary to invest air force dollars in a program that benefits both the air force and the navy. >> right. >> it's all department of def

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but tagging along with that, because the navy is one of the parties to which these -- the master lease and the cooperative agreement are with, we certainly have concerns now that there is news that there is additional sites with potential radiological impact. what is the city going to do to ensure that we are doing the proper cleanup and the safeguards that need to take place to protect our residents and of course our workers on that island. i wanted to separate those two issues out. >> president chiu: why don't we go to the authority, madam director. >> mereian sighas, director of operations at treasure island, president chiu and members of the board. i just want to first just make some remarks with regards to the items before you today, and then quickly get into the issue at hand with regards to the recent media report. so with that, 15 years ago, tida -- the board of supervisors approved the resolution establishing tida as