BERMITE SITE NEIGHBOR TO SELL LAND.Byline: JUDY O'ROURKE Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, - A defense contractor Noun 1. defense contractor - a contractor concerned with the development and manufacture of systems of defense armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; plans to sell the lion's share of its property near the polluted Whittaker-Bermite site in the next year, a company official said this week. National Technical Systems, Inc., would sell 120 acres of the 150 acres it owns in Santa Clarita to finance acquisitions for the publicly traded Calabasas-based company, chairman Jack Lin said in a Webcast on Monday. Lin did not name a price, acknowledging that certain ``conditions'' exist on the raw, ungraded land. On Tuesday, Chief Financial Officer Lloyd Blonder backpedaled from Lin's statement, saying the company is weighing the future of the site and the decision to sell rests with the board. ``Eventually when all the engineering studies are done, (we will make a) determination of what the strategy will be. There is nothing on the agenda right now,'' he said. ``It is going to take months or years to figure out a valuation and what can be done with it.'' NTS NTS National Technical Systems NTS National Trust for Scotland NTS Nevada Test Site NTS NT Server (Microsoft Windows) nts Not the Same NTS National Traffic System (amateur radio) property abutted the contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. Bermite property until last year, when Golden Valley Road was built between the two. Officials for the company - which has tested products and components for aerospace, telecommunications and military uses on the site - have sidelined the Environmental Protection Agency's attempts since 2004 to drill wells to discover whether perchlorate perchlorate: see chlorate. and other contaminants may have seeped from the site into the groundwater below. Preliminary tests done by a state regulatory agency state regulatory agency A state body responsible for establishing professional standards, and for certifying professionals or organizations through appropriate documentation in 2003 found perchlorate in the soil but water agencies have said the chemicals have not contaminated public water sources. Perchlorate is a byproduct by·prod·uct or by-prod·uct n. 1. Something produced in the making of something else. 2. A secondary result; a side effect. Noun 1. of rocket fuel that has been linked to thyroid disorders. Blonder said the portion of the site offered for sale lies in a buffer zone buffer zone n. A neutral area between hostile or belligerent forces that serves to prevent conflict. Noun 1. buffer zone where no testing was done. Putting a price tag on the property might not be easy. ``That particular property is a complicated property,'' said developer Randy Wrage. The geology slopes to the north, there is potential contamination, no entitlements exist, and it must fit in with the surrounding uses: Golden Valley High School sits above, a business park lies below, houses are to the east and Golden Valley Road is to the west, he added.Rezoning the area, currently zoned for industry and light commercial uses, could take two to three years, he added. ``They only want to sell a portion of it,'' Wrage said. ``How all that fits together requires a lot of stakeholder input, which requires a lot of time and effort.'' judy.orourke(at)dailynews.com (661) 257-5255 CAPTION(S): map Map: National Technical Systems plans to sell 120 acres. |
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