Environmental Cost To Complete (CTC)

The Legacy BRAC CTC for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 is estimated at $2,273M and represents the costs for environmental response actions necessary for cleanup of remaining property as well as the costs for the long- term management of ongoing environmental cleanup remedies (i.e. groundwater monitoring) at 21 installations, which have been completely disposed of. Over the last 20 years, the Army achieved Response Complete (RC) status at many environmental sites but is now confronted with expensive, time-consuming remediation actions such as military munitions responses and groundwater plume cleanups. These actions require both significant upfront investments and continued funding to avoid cost growth and unnecessary demobilization expenses. Previous experience has shown that the longer the cleanup at these complex sites is deferred, the greater the final cost of cleanup. Environmental Services Cooperative Agreements (ESCA) have accelerated property reuse by allowing the Army to convey large amounts of property, with the transfer of cleanup responsibilities, to Local Reuse Authorities (LRA).

The installation-level CTC provided below was developed to justify the Army’s FY26 President’s Budget Submission. The BRAC Program has developed aggressive, but realistic, annual obligation goals.

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* 100% Conveyed Sites with Environmental Requirements