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SAN DIEGO – The Secretary of the Defense recognized Naval Base Point Loma (NBPL) with an Environmental Award, April 22 in Washington D.C., for Cultural Resources Management (CRM) achievement.
The Cultural Resources Management, Small Installation Award recognizes efforts to promote effective cultural resources management through proactive stewardship of DOD’s extensive and rich heritage assets.
Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Southwest NBPL CRM team members, Historian Dr. David K. Sproul, Archaeologist Jessica Porter-Rodriguez, and GIS Specialist Caitlan Dowling, worked closely with the NBPL Environmental, Facilities Management, and tenants who required support in the maintenance and management of the historic facilities they occupy.
CRM team’s accomplishments included continued implementation of the Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan through planning, communication, and compliance, successful application of the Programmatic Agreement and associated reporting requirements to achieve mission objectives with zero delays to project execution and zero adverse effects to historic properties. The team also was creative and responsible in the reuse of historic properties to support mission readiness and enhance warfighter capabilities, and completed a multiyear project to rehabilitate and restore a more than 100-year old historic building for use by installation components and reduced cost to facilities management.
“A lot of really smart people, worked really hard, for a really long time to make this project happen. Honestly, there were times when I didn’t think it would work," said Robert Chichester, NAVFAC Southwest Installation Environmental Program director for Naval Base Point Loma. "20 plus years later, it finally paid off when the NBPL Security Department was able to move in and breathe life back into the building. If you’re lucky you get a few projects like this in your career. We were all fortunate to have the renovation of Bldg. 158 be one of those projects.”
The team continues to support installation stakeholders and military family housing partners to improve quality of life for installation personnel and their families.
NAVFAC Southwest NBPL Environmental Division manages NBPL’s environmental program. Their mission is to provide the NBPL Commanding Officer and tenant commands with the environmental subject matter expertise necessary to ensure compliance with local, state, and Federal environmental requirements, while also meeting NBPL’s mission to sustain the Fleet, enable the Fighter, and support the family while maintaining NBPL as a 5-Star destination. NBPL’s CRM program is an example where support to the Fleet is accomplished in a manner compatible with sound historic resources stewardship putting into practice 5-star commitment to excellence and the Navy’s core values. NBPL’s CRM achieves this objective by managing cultural resources through affirmative stewardship; comply with Federal historic preservation statutes; find creative solutions that favor adaptive reuse of historic structures, protect historic and prehistoric resources; and work closely with stakeholders to secure outcomes that serve the warfighter.
Each year since 1962, the Secretary of Defense Environmental Awards have honored service members and civilians across the Department of Defense. The nominees’ achievements include significant strides to conserve our Nation’s natural and cultural resources; protect human health; prevent or eliminate pollution at the source.
NBPL along with additional NAVFAC Southwest environmentally managed facilities, Naval Base San Diego (NBSD) and Naval Air Station (NAS) Fallon Range Training Complex Modernization Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Team, were previously recognized April 7 in Washington D.C. as 2021 Secretary of the Navy Environmental Awards winners. NBSD was recognized for non-industrial installation sustainability, and NAS Fallon Range Training Complex Modernization EIS Team was recognized for environmental planning.
NAVFAC Southwest personnel supports its clients with services in planning, design, construction, real estate, environmental and public works for U.S. Navy shore facilities, Marine Corps, Army, Air Force, and other federal agencies in California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, and Colorado.
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| Date Taken: | 04.22.2021 |
| Date Posted: | 05.19.2021 15:35 |
| Story ID: | 396860 |
| Location: | POINT LOMA, CALIFORNIA, US |
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