Boise Barracks Ordnance Removal Reports 1997-2002, with photocopies of older material

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Boise Barracks Ordnance Removal Reports 1997-2002, with photocopies of older material

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv90478

Reports issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, and contract consultants regarding the use and storage of explosive ordnance at Boise Barracks in the 19th and 20th centuries by the U.S. Army and Idaho National Guard, with plans for removal of ordnance from and environmental restoration of the firing ranges on the Barracks reserve and adjacent areas of the Boise foothills; together with minutes of the local Restoration Advisory Board meetings. The studies were conducted under the Defense Environmental Restoration Program for Formerly Used Defense Sites. Photocopies of older historical documents pertaining to the history of Boise Barracks are included in the reports.

2.25 linear feet; 3 boxes

eng,

Boise State University Library, Special Collections and Archives

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In 1986, Congress established the Defense Environmental Restoration Program directing the Secretary of Defense to "carry out a program of environmental restoration at facilities under the jurisdiction of the Secretary." The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was assigned the responsibility for formerly-used defense sites, one of which was Boise Barracks in Boise, Idaho. First occupied by the U.S. Army in 1863, Fort Boise was established to protect travelers on the Oregon Trail...

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