Technical Review of the Economic Development Conveyance Application for Vint Hill Farms Station, VA

In 1993 President Clinton requested that Congress provide new authority to expedite the reuse of military bases adversely affected by Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) actions. The result was a new property transfer method, called an Economic Development Conveyance (EDC), which gives greater flexibility to the Department of Defense (DoD) and affected communities to negotiate a mutually beneficial property transfer. On 30 April 1997, the Vint Hill Farms Economic Development Authority filed an EDC application for transfer of Vint Hill Farms Station, a U.S. Army installation slated for closure in 1993 under BRAC. The U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories was tasked by Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to (1) review the EDC application for compliance with DoD rules implementing the Federal EDC policy, (2) analyze the findings, and (3) report to the sponsor.