Navy BRAC Program Management Office

The Navys BRAC Program Management Office (PMO) was established in October, 2004, to implement the BRAC decisions at Navy and Marine Corps installations using a business management perspective to deliver sound community liaison, planning, real estate, and environmental decisions. Falling under the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy ( Installations and Facilities), the PMO is tasked with BRAC program oversight, post-operational closure and disposal actions; NEPA Class I and II disposal actions; serving as the primary liaison with local communities and redevelopment authorities; overseeing all base closure, realignment, and care taker activities; developing and implementing plans, priorities and procedures for base disposals and their associated environmental cleanups and BRAC budget submissions. Comprised of a senior directorate, three regional offices and a support office, the Navy established the BRAC Program Management Office in order to expedite implementation of BRAC decisions at Navy and Marine Corps installations.

Between 1988 and 1995, the federal government selected 97 major military bases for closure through the process known as Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC). Although many communities feared that closing a nearby military base would be their economic death knell, in practice it has been the starting bell for charting a new economic future. Because of extraordinary local leadership, combined with a strong economy, closing military bases are becoming engines of local economic renewal across the country. The PMO will continue to work with local communities to complete the clean up and transfer process of bases closed in prior BRAC rounds, as well as those being closed in BRAC 2005.

For further information about the PMO and its programs, the web site address is www.bracpmo.navy.mil.

Navy BRAC PMO is working in partnership with Marine Corps commands, civilian contractors, regulators such as the UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF TOXICS SUBSTANCES CONTROL, and the general public, through RESTORATION ADVISORY BOARDS, to clean installations.

MINS was identified for closure during the Base Closure and Realignment (BRAC) process of 1993. Naval operations ceased and the facility was decommissioned on April 1, 1996. The California Conservation Corps, Touro University, and numerous commercial and industrial businesses are currently leasing property aboard the former naval shipyard. In May 2000, the Navy completed the transfer of a former housing area called Roosevelt Terrace using an economic development conveyance. An economic development conveyance is a method to accelerate the transfer of BRAC facilities back to civilian communities for their economic benefit. The Navy is also transferring property at the shipyard to other government agencies such as U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refuge, a U.S. Forest Service office building, an Army Reserve Center, a Coast Guard communications facility, and a Department of Education school.