GCC, EPA sign MOU for firing range

by Krystal Paco

Guam - The Guam Community College is taking a proactive approach to environmental issues on their Mangilao campus. At today's memorandum of understanding signing, GCC and the Guam Environmental Protection Agency partnered up to conduct a Brownsfield assessment on GCC's firing range.

GCC president Mary Okada said, "Our intent is to do the mitigation of the lead that has been here for over 25 years and then identify some mechanism to clean it up and protect the water lens as we discussed earlier. At some point collect the data necessary for the college to either consider putting this as an enclosed facility and expanding and modernizing it a little bit so it complements the rest of the campus," she said.

GCC has provided free firing range services to local and federal law enforcement agencies for the last 25 years. GEPA administrator Eric Palacios adds this MOU is the perfect example that force preparedness and environmental protection can be achieved simultaneously.