Common use of Physical Setting Clause in Contracts

Physical Setting. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Field lies 35 miles south of San Francisco, 10 miles north of San ▇▇▇▇, and about 1mile south of San Francisco Bay. The facility encompasses about 2,000 acres in Santa ▇▇▇▇▇ County and borders the cities of Mountain View and Sunnyvale, California. To the north of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Field are saltwater evaporation ponds and wetlands associated with San Francisco Bay; Stevens Creek lies to the west; U.S. Highway 101 runs along the southern perimeter; and Lockheed-▇▇▇▇▇▇ Aerospace facilities are located to the east. The ▇▇▇▇ Campus is located in the northwest portion of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Field. The area south of U.S. Highway 101 is industrial and includes a group of companies located or formerly located in a 0.5 square-mile area bounded by East Middlefield Road, ▇▇▇▇▇ Street, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Road, and U.S. Highway 101, referred to as the MEW Superfund Site. These companies are implementing remedial activities for soil and groundwater contamination believed to originate within the MEW Superfund Site. Groundwater beneath the NRP parcels is impacted by migration of chemicals from the MEW Superfund Site and from past Navy operations at ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Field (Tetra Tech, 1998). The groundwater plumes underneath the NRP parcels are referred to as the West Side Aquifer or Regional Plume. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Field was operated as a NAS by the U.S. Military beginning on its date of commission in April 1933. The base was designated for closure as an active military base under the U.S. Department of Defense Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) program. The base was transferred in July 1994 to NASA, except for the military housing units and associated facilities, which were transferred to Onizuka Air Force Base. As described in the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Field Comprehensive Use Plan, Environmental Assessment (▇▇▇▇▇ & Associates, 1994), portions of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Field will be converted from their former military use and redeveloped as a laboratory and associated offices. Other portions of the NRP Site are proposed for development as a collaborative research and educational campus, pursuant to the FEIS (DCE, 2002).