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The Former Beech-Salina site is located at the intersection of Scanlan Avenue and Derussy Road at the Salina Municipal Airport. The site is currently used by Salina Area Technical School which has an address of 2562 Centennial Road, #A, Salina, KS 67401. The legal description of the site is Section 34, Township 14 South, Range 3 West. Hawker-Beechcraft filed for bankruptcy in 2012. As part of the bankruptcy proceedings, its former Salina facility was included. Beech began ceasing operations in Salina in 2009.

A review of Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) site files indicated several Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), air, and wastewater-pretreatment files for the Former Beech-Salina area. The Salina Municipal Airport has been an industrial park since the closure of the Schilling Air Force Base and reversion of the buildings and land to the Salina Airport Authority in 1965. Hakwer-Beechcraft began operating at Salina as Beechcraft in 1966.

The site also has an extensive history of previous Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liabilities Act (CERCLA) investigations, beginning with the Magnolia and Centennial investigation by KDHE in 1995. Subsequent investigations by KDHE, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) have been conducted at the site.

Upon more specific review of the former Schilling Air Force Base site, the area containing the former Beechcraft facility in question is within the site boundaries of Operable Unit 1 of the Former Schilling Air Force Base DOD site. A review of the Remedial Investigation (RI) Report for Operable Unit 1 conducted for this ISS indicates that trichloroethylene (TCE) is present both up-and downgradient of the former Beechcraft buildings above Maximum Contaminant Levels, and from the RI no jump in TCE concentrations is present at or downgradient of the former Beechcraft buildings.

Since the former Beech-Salina site is within the Operable Unit 1 portion of the Former Schilling Air Force Base site, and is being addressed by the Salina Public Entities*, no further KDHE assessment is recommended.

*Consists of the City of Salina, Salina Airport Authority, USD 305, and Kansas State University