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	Shipyard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the United Kingdom, for example, shipyards were established on the River Thames (King Henry VIII founded yards at Woolwich and Deptford in 1512 and 1513 respectively), River Mersey, River Tyne, River Wear and River Clyde - the latter growing to be the World's pre-eminent shipbuilding centre.
		Other famous UK shipyards include the Harland and Wolff yard in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where the Titanic was built, and the naval dockyard at Chatham, England on the Medway in north Kent.
		Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, is one of the largest shipyards in the world; specializing in repairing, overhauling and modernizing ships and submarines.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Naval_shipyard (1266 words)

	Hunters Point / San Francisco Naval Shipyard
		Hunters Point is on a long promontory in the southeastern portion of San Francisco, extending eastward into San Francisco Bay.
		The facility is bounded on the north and east by the bay, and on the south and west by the Bayview/Hunters Point district of San Francisco.
		Hunters Point is bordered by the most depressed area of the city.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/hunters_point.htm (1460 words)

	San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard was a short-lived shipyard formed in 1965 as the combination of the San Francisco Naval Shipyard (aka Hunters Point) and the Mare Island Naval Shipyard.
		The combined yards were the largest naval shipyard in the world, but the desired cost savings did not materialize, and the two yards reverted to separate existences in February 1970.
		The shipyard was used for radioactive testing when the United States was testing the atomic bomb.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Naval_Shipyard (166 words)

	About the Shipyard
		In 1870, the area was established as a commercial shipyard and was acquired by the Navy days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
		San Francisco Naval Shipyard, at Hunters Point, San Francisco, subsequently known as Hunters Point Naval Shipyard (HPNSY) is located on 638 acres of waterfront.
		The Navy is in the process of finalizing the transfer of the Shipyard to the city of San Francisco.
	www.thepointart.com /shipyard.html (209 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Record of Decision for the Disposal and Reuse of the Hunters Point Annex To Naval Station ...
		Navy plans to dispose of Hunters Point in a manner that is consistent with the Reuse Plan and under the authority of Section 2824(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991, Public Law 101-510, as amended by Section 2834 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994, Public Law 103-160.
		Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is located in the City of San Francisco and covers 936 acres, of which 443 acres are submerged.
		The Hunters Point property is located in a highly active seismic region and, except for the residential area on the hilltop, is built on artificial fill that has a high potential for liquefaction, densification, and differential settlement.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2000/November/Day-20/i29650.htm (7538 words)

	Installation Narrative Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Treasure Island Naval Station Hunters Point Annex is on a long promontory in the southeast portion of San Francisco County, California, extending eastward into San Francisco Bay.
		Hunters Point was operated as a commercial drydock facility from 1869 until 1939.
		Hunters Point was included on the National Priorities List (NPL) in November 1989 based on a Hazard Ranking System Score of 48.7.
	5yrplan.nfesc.navy.mil /scripts/WebObjects.exe/InstallationSummaries.woa/wa/DisplayNarrative?search=npl&activityId=a211&key= (1382 words)

	ATSDR - Health Consultation - Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard (a/k/a Treasure Island Naval Station-Hunter's Point Annex), ...
		Hunters Point is on a long promontory in the southeastern portion of San Francisco, extending eastward into San Francisco Bay (Figure 1).
		The facility is a deactivated shipyard bounded on the north and east by the bay, and on the south and west by the Bayview/Hunters Point community of San Francisco.
		Evaluation of the Hunters Point Parcel E Landfill information, such as the duration of the fire and smoldering events, the land area involved, the wind direction, wind speed, ambient air temperature and photographic information of the fire indicate that adverse health effects, such as eye and respiratory irritation are possible.
	www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/hunterspoint/hun_p1.html (6950 words)

	City of San Francisco and Navy Sign Master Plan for the Cleanup and Revitalization of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard
		Essentially, this agreement is a Master Plan for the revitalization of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, which will ensure that the base can now be cleaned up and turned over to the City and an expeditious manner.
		This means new jobs and new housing for the people of Hunters Point, and an end to the bickering that has gone on for a quarter of a century.
		Hunters Point Naval Shipyard has been a point of contention for more than 25 years, with all sides fighting over the level of contamination at the base and who will pay for cleanup.
	www.senate.gov /~feinstein/Releases02/hntrspnt.htm (900 words)

	Hunters Point Naval Shipyard - California Asbestos Exposure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hunters Point Naval Shipyard (HPNSY), a San Francisco Bay yard, was established in 1868 by the California Drydock Company.
		Hunters Point experienced expansion and a dramatic increase in work during the Korean conflict, of the early 1950s, taking aboard 11,000 employees.
		Hunters Point has been a yard for mainly ship repair but has also seen other activities over the years including a Launch Test Complex, Printing and Publications, and Planning and Engineering for Repair and Alterations for Combat Support Ships (PERA) (CSS).
	www.elslaw.com /jobsites_ca_hunters.htm (651 words)

	Ceremony to Celebrate Conveyance of First Parcel of the Hunters Point Shipyard
		San Francisco, CA – After years of struggle by the City, the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and the Bayview Hunters Point community, redevelopment of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is finally ready to commence.
		Wayne Arny, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations and Environment) said, “Hunters Point Shipyard begins a new chapter in its diverse history with the conveyance of this property to the City of San Francisco.
		As a result of an innovative public private transaction structure, an estimated $30-40 million in net revenue from land sales to be reinvested in the Bayview Hunters Point community for additional community benefits.
	www.senate.gov /~feinstein/05releases/r-hunters-pnt.htm (814 words)

	Hunters Point Shipyard
		The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard once was a key part of the nation's war effort in World War II.
		The shipyard was a major repair center, and provided thousands of jobs for local residents and for others who came from across the country.
		Along with the decline in jobs and activity at the shipyard came a decline in the Bayview and Hunters Point neighborhoods -- and an increase in the rates of poverty and violence there.
	www.hunterspointshipyard.com /news/news18.html (338 words)

	San Francisco Leaders Announce Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Agreement
		The shipyard, once developed, will be a great asset for the residents of the Bayview/Hunters Point.
		"Hunters Point Naval Shipyard has been a point of contention since my days as a San Francisco Supervisor, with all sides fighting over the level of contamination at the base and who will pay for cleanup.
		As a result of this watershed agreement the City should be in a position to accept transfer of Parcel A (the first 78 acres of the Shipyard) in the next few months.
	feinstein.senate.gov /04Releases/r-hunters.html (626 words)

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		In August 2000 a fire blazed underneath the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard landfill for three weeks before the Navy notified the surrounding community-allowing the community to be unknowingly subjected to toxic fumes for 21 days.
		The shipyard was also used to sandblast ships that were exposed to radiation from atomic bomb tests in the Bikini Islands, which left nuclear charged particles scattered about the shipyard.
		Although the study wasn't directly linked to the shipyard, many African Americans, who compose 52-percent of the Bay View Hunters Point and nearly 100 percent of the community closest to the shipyard, think the toxicity is killing their community.
	online.sfsu.edu /~j667/rab.html (1662 words)

	Guide to HPS Cleanup - Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Hunters Point Shipyard Cleanup: An Overview (425KB PDF) - An introduction to the Hunters Point Shipyard Cleanup, the history of the shipyard, how it was contaminated, and what is being done.
		Hunters Point Shipyard Historical Radiological Assessment Volume II (280KB PDF) - A summary of volume II of the Navy's Historical Radiological Assessment (HRA) that outlines the types of radiological materials used at the Shipyard, discusses the Navy's conclusions about how to address any known/possible contamination, and lists the radionuclides of concern at HPS.
		The Future of Hunters Point Shipyard (135KB PDF) - An overview of the the plans for the Hunters Point Shipyard after the cleanup and how the property is transferred from the U.S. Navy to the City and County of San Francisco.
	www.communitywindowontheshipyard.org /cleanupguide (825 words)

	SFGov: Superior Court: Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, released June 2002
		As the shipyard was expanded, the adjacent Hunters Point ridge, a serpentine rock formation, was cut down to fill the shoreline, and that fill contains some naturally occurring toxins.
		The facility was used for naval ordnance training exercises, radiological defense research, and research on human exposure to radioactive fallout.
		The Hunters Point Shipyard Redevelopment Plan, dated July 14, 1997, provides the framework for reuse and development and divides the entire site into six parcels (A-F) in order to expedite clean up and transfer to the City.
	www.ci.sf.ca.us /site/courts_page.asp?id=3708 (2614 words)

	Francisco Da Costa - Articles
		In the 1940s that is how the property known today at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard was acquired to serve the purposes of World War II.
		The PAC under the diabolic designs of SF Redevelopment Agency is now trying to extend the Project Area to take under its wing the whole of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and the surrounding area by Kiska Road up on the hill which has one of the best views in the City.
		Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and the surrounding area will not be for grabs.
	www.franciscodacosta.com /articles/grab.html (1299 words)

	San Francisco Redevelopment Agency: Hunters Point Shipyard
		The 500-acre Hunters Point Shipyard is located on the prominent peninsula along San Francisco's southeastern waterfront between the City's Financial District and San Francisco International Airport.
		Candlestick Point and CandlestickPark football stadium are immediately to the southwest while the Port of San Francisco and the Mission Bay project are immediately north of the Shipyard.
		The Hunters Point Shipyard Citizen's Advisory Committee (CAC) is a group of San Francisco community residents and business owners who are selected by the Mayor to oversee the redevelopment process.
	www.sfport.com /site/sfra_page.asp?id=5588 (411 words)

	Mesothelioma SOS - Asbestos Exposure at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard
		Shortly after the war ended, Hunters Point became the site of the Navy Radiological Defense Laboratory, a division of the military that was charged with the decontamination of ships that had been involved in nuclear testing.
		When Hunters Point closed in 1974, it was sold to Triple-A Shipyard and, in turn, the company leased space to many small businesses.
		If you worked at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, either in the shipbuilding industry or in another business that leased space from the shipyard, you may have been exposed to asbestos, resulting in a diagnosis of asbestos-related cancer.
	www.mesotheliomasos.com /jobsitesHunterspoint.php (343 words)

	SF Environment: Hunters Point Clean-Up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mayor Brown, Navy agree to Hunters Point Clean-Up On November 2, 2000, Mayor Willie L. Brown Jr.
		"Hunters Point Shipyard has been dormant for over a quarter century and now the community's plans for the Shipyard can finally begin to be realized.
		The former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco has been closed since 1974.
	www.sfenvironment.com /aboutus/victories/hunters_point.htm (297 words)

	ATSDR - PHA - Treasure Island Naval Station, Hunters Point Annex, San Francisco County, California
		Since HPA is inactive, all personnel records from the period when the shipyard was active have been archived and, according to Navy representatives, can not be retrieved.
		HARP has determined that if contaminant levels of concern are detected in fish and shellfish, people who eat fish caught at or near Hunters Point Annex should receive community health education explaining the health implications of possible exposures to contaminants bioaccumulated by fish and shellfish.
		At ATSDR's request, representatives of the Western Division Naval Facilities Engineering Command and the Naval Station Treasure Island will be posting signs along the Parcel E and IR-7 boundaries warning of multiple environmental hazards and warning against collecting and eating fish or shellfish from the area.
	www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/treasure/tre_p3.html (4499 words)

	Hunter's Point - History
		The name "Hunters Point" refers to an area on San Francicso bay just South of the city.
		Now "The Point" as it is called, has over 200 artists on site and is one of the largest artist communities in the country.
		Three years ago its Hunters Point Environmental Coordinator testified to the Board of Supervisors that $300 million would be needed to complete the job.
	www.zpub.com /sf/thepoint/point-h.html (590 words)

	USN Ships--USS Atlanta (IX-304, formerly CL-104)
		Taken to the Naval Shipyard at Hunter's Point, San Francisco, she was converted to a weapons effects test ship for use in the upcoming Operation "Sailor Hat" explosive experiments.
		Stricken from the Naval Vessel Register for the second time in April 1970, Atlanta was sunk as a target off Slan Clemente Island, California, on 1 October 1970.
		The Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard is in the left background.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-a/ix304.htm (975 words)

	Sink or Swim: Cinematheque 7/7/01
		The Shipyard was established in 1869 as the first dry dock on the Pacific Coast, was operated by the Navy until 1976 and closed in 1991.
		The name Hunters Point comes from the name of a pioneer family that was living in the area in 1866.
		The shipyard consists of 936 acres, 493 on land and 443 underwater in the San Francisco Bay.
	www.hi-beam.net /sos (2918 words)

	San Francisco Bay View (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is a huge part of San Francisco.
		The Shipyard, San Francisco’s only federal Superfund site, is far too toxic for human habitation after serving for decades as the Navy’s dumping ground and “for naval ordnance training exercises, radiological defense research, and research on human exposure to radioactive fallout.
		The report was evidently completed before the announcement of a major victory in the Bayview Hunters Point community’s more than decade-long struggle to force the Navy to clean the Shipyard up thoroughly enough for people to live there.
	www.sfbayview.com /061902/grandjury061902.html (752 words)

	Hunters Point Shipyard
		Former shipyard site development gets OK Redevelopment of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard took a leap forward Tuesday when the Board of Supervisors approved a number of amendments to city ordinances to clear its way.
		The residential project is the first one slated for the 500 acre-plus shipyard, which was decommissioned in 1974.
		It's been over 30 years," Supervisor Sophie Maxwell, whose district includes the shipyard, said in urging her colleagues to approve the amendments.
	www.hunterspointshipyard.com /news/news8.html (136 words)

	SAN FRANCISCO / Shipping out the tenants / Artists, others must leave before toxic cleanup at Hunters Point
		In the late 1940s, the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard was the country's leading location for the decontamination of ships that had been exposed to atomic weapons.
		The shipyard was deactivated in 1974, but by that time, radioactive materials had seeped into the land and had been discharged into the bay, the Navy said.
		The complex cleanup that would require everyone to be out of the shipyard by Feb. 15 involves shutting off the water, removing a sewage system that is more than 60 years old and testing the lines.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/22/BAGTDEBAFE1.DTL (1045 words)

	House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The shipyard, once developed, will be a great asset for the residents of the Bayview Hunters Point.
		This agreement is a significant breakthrough, and signals an end to the bickering that has gone on for a quarter of a century.
		Following a final intensive round of negotiations, the Navy and the City have completed the Conveyance Agreement governing the transfer of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.
	democraticleader.house.gov /press/releases.cfm?pressReleaseID=516 (711 words)

	San Francisco Community Journalism Project
		This summer, San Francisco and the Navy were going forward with an agreement to transfer Parcel A of the Hunters Point Shipyard to the city.
		The first transfer is part of the city's plan to develop the shipyard for housing and retail.
		Parcel A is considered the cleanest of the six parcels that are ultimately to be transferred to city control.
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~j667/naval_shipyard.htm (209 words)

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