NSGA Skaggs Island draft environmental restoration record

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SCG-00081

Staff Only

Content Description

Administrative records of documents relating to environmental cleanup and restoration of the former Naval Security Group Activity Skaggs Island base. Numerous facilities on the base required extensive cleanup due to soil and groundwater contamination.

Dates

Creation: 1988-2007

Creator

United States. Naval Facilities Engineering Command. Western Division (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection stored offsite, but is open to research. To view these materials, please call Sonoma County History and Genealogy Library staff at 707 308-3212 to request they be brought from the Archives to the Library. Most documents available for download from the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command's Administrative Record site

Conditions Governing Use

Property rights reside with the Sonoma County Library. The Sonoma County Library has made this collection available and believes that the collection is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Collection may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Preferred credit line is: Courtesy, the Sonoma County Library. Please see additional information on

History

The NSGA Skaggs Island performed cryptologic functions in accordance with operational and technical guidance and instructions from the CNO, CINCPACFLT, DIRNSA, and CONMAVSECGRU. These included instructional activities of the BULLSEYE Net Control System (NCS) school. NSGA Skaggs Island was also a node in the TACINTEL subsystem used for transmission of special-intelligence communications. TACINTEL is a computerized message processing installation that makes it possible to transmit and receive message traffic via satellite in a controlled environment. Skaggs Island, off Route 37 in Sonoma County, has been voluntarily phased out by the Navy. The TACINTEL subsystem at the facility was used for transmission of special-intelligence communications. The subsystem is essentially a computerized message processing installation that makes it possible to transmit and receive message traffic via satellite in a controlled environment. Skaggs Island is a drained area of San Pablo Bay tidelands approximately twenty-five miles northeast of San Francisco. The Navy developed the northern sixty acres of Skaggs Island as a self sufficient communications base with its own domestic water and sewer systems. Facilities included over one hundred thousand square feet of office and classroom space, eighty duplex family residential units, a dormitory and food service facilities, and several dozen maintenance or recreation structures. In response to the closure of Skaggs Island a consortium of public and private environmental, educational, and cultural institutions formed the non-profit Skaggs Island Foundation to plan the reuse of Skaggs Island and to serve as the lead agency in the acquisition and management of Skaggs Island for public use. The model for this foundation is the Ft. Mason Foundation which manages the facilities at Ft. Mason in San Francisco. The 3,310-acre site will be transferred from the Navy to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service when demolition is complete and will eventually become part of the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Demolition began in January 2010.

Extent

5.5 linear feet (5 record storage cartons; 224 records)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

Documents arranged in storage cartons as numbered by NAVFAC. Numbering is roughly chronological.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Federal depository title, 2012; supplied by Naval Facilities Engineering Command. Western Division.

Additional Documentation

The documents in this draft administrative record set represent approximately half of the total documents comprising the final version. With the exception of a few documents unique to the archived set, all documents are available for download or by Freedom of Information Act requests through the Naval Facilities Engineering Command's Southwest Division link.