Boeing Kent Space Center public comment period

Please review and comment on:

• Final Draft Permit Lite: The permit allows cleanup work at the facility to continue.
• Final Draft Agreed Order (AO) Amendment: The AO for cleanup was modified. It now requires this site to do a feasibility study to research how to clean up the contamination.
• Public Participation Plan (PPP): This encourages community involvement in cleanup decisions.

How to submit comments

This public comment period opens Feb. 27, 2023, and closes April 21, 2023.

Submit your comments:

• Online public comment form.
• By email to li.ma@ecy.wa.gov.
• By mail (see address information below).

When the public comment period ends, we will consider all comments and may change the documents based on them. After considering all comments, the documents will become final.

Will there be a public meeting?

At this time, there are no public meetings scheduled for this comment period. We will hold a public meeting if 10 or more people request one. To request a meeting, please contact Janelle Anderson, Community Outreach Specialist at 425-301-6454 or janelle.anderson@ecy.wa.gov.

Site background

Boeing has operated this facility since the 1960s, conducting research and development, primarily for the Department of Defense. They also manufacture electrical components and perform metal milling, finishing and plating, and photographic processing here. These activities led to contaminated soil and groundwater.

In 2022, Boeing signed an Agreed Order (AO) that requires them to conduct a Remedial Investigation (RI) and do a focused Feasibility Study about the arsenic-contaminated groundwater on-site and whether institutional controls for the property are required.

• Contamination at this site is relatively low.
• Groundwater at this site is not used for drinking water, therefore it does not currently threaten human health.

Learn more

• Read our Boeing Kent Space Center cleanup focus sheet.
• Go to our Boeing Kent Space Center cleanup webpage.