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<br />INT~RNAT~ONAL, INC.
<br />October 19, 2005
<br />To: U.S. Army Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command
<br />1 Rock Island Arsenal
<br />Rock Island, IL 61299-6000
<br />Subject: 5X Certification of Land Parcel within Load Line 4 at Cornhusker
<br />Army Ammunition Plant, Grar-d Island, Nebraska
<br />According to the U.S. Army Pamphlet IOCP 385-1, the 5X level of contamination exists
<br />when "no significant amounts (not enough to present an explosive safety hazard} of
<br />contamination remain." At the 5X level the °article, equipment, or building" does net pose
<br />an explosive safety hazard and is safe for welding, drilling, sawing, etc. and sale to the
<br />general public. Therefore, in order for the U.S. Army bo transfer the Cornhusker AAP parcel
<br />for sale, it must first be clarified as 5X.
<br />The Load Line 4 area (Section 14, Township 11, Range 11) is located West of Hall County
<br />in Grand Island, Nebraska (refer to Figure 1, Vol. I of III of this Final Report), and formerly
<br />contained a series of buildings that had been used in the Loading, Assembly and Packing
<br />(LAP) of explosives and munitions.
<br />The 5X certification of the land parcel within the Fenced boundary of Load Line (LL) 4 was
<br />conducted in accordance with Amendment 4 of the original Explosives Safety Submission
<br />(ESS) approved by the Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) in
<br />December 2004 and the approved Work Plan (Raul, 01-19-05). The 5X certification of the
<br />buildings at Load Line 4 (Buildings 4L-1, 4L-2, 4L-3, 4L~, 4L-S, 4L-7, 4L-9, 4L-10, 4L-ilE,
<br />4L-11W, 4L-12, 4L-14, 4L-17, 4L-18, 4L-19, 4L-20, 4L-21, 4L-22, 4L-23, 4L-24, 4L-27, 4L-
<br />30, CH18, CH19-1 and CH19-2), associated ramps/walkways and the soils underneath the
<br />building slabs will be performed as part of another contract; hence is excluded from this 5X
<br />certification letter.
<br />The procedures resulting in the 5X certiFication are detailed in the Final Report and were
<br />performed by unexploded ordnance (UXO) personnel who were former military Explosive
<br />Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technicians trained in the recognition, assessment and
<br />remediation of explosive contamination and hazards.
<br />Therefore, to the best of our knowledge, the land parcel within the fenced boundary of LL4
<br />as identified above have been decontaminated to the 5X level in accordance with the
<br />DDESB-approved ESS.
<br />For PIKA International, Inc:
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<br />Dewey Thedford
<br />Senior UXO Supervisor
<br />Gerald Kitzmiller
<br />UXO SafetyJQC Officer
<br />12919 Southwest Freeway, #190~Staffnrd, Texas 77477
<br />Tel: 281-340-5525 Fax; 281-34a-5533
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