MacDill Air Force Base (MacDill AFB) is a 5,695-acre military facility employing over 12,000 active-duty military personnel and located near Gadsden Point in Tampa, Florida. The base is home to 24 KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refueling aircraft. The Defense Fuel Support Point (DFSP) Tampa is located inside the western portion of MacDill AFB and is operated by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) under a permit agreement. The DFSP Tampa provides government-contracted Jet A fuel regionally to military entities, with the primary customer being MacDill AFB. Most of the fuel piping is located within the confines of MacDill AFB and is real property that belongs to the AFB. Defense fuel receipt pipelines for the facility are located on land within Picnic Island Recreation Area owned by and leased from the City of Tampa. Additionally, a custody transfer valve and a portion of the defense fuel receipt pipelines are on Chevron property at the Chevron Bulk Terminal northwest of MacDill AFB. Fuel is received by barge at the Port Tampa Fuel Pier west of the Chevron Bulk Terminal (Austin Brockenbrough and Associates 2017).One of the two parallel defense fuel receipt pipelines is currently out of service following an October 2012instrument-pigging investigation. Because only one pipeline is in service, the fuel conveyance capacity was reduced by half, thereby increasing the off-loading time for bulk fuel receipt (Austin Brockenbrough and Associates 2017). The increased time for bulk fuel receipt has a domino effect by causing an increase in the barge mooring times at the pier and delaying other vessels using the Port Tampa Fuel Pier. Given these considerations, a systematic repair or replacement of the defense fuel receipt pipelines is needed for continued future use of the system.


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    Title :

    Final Environmental Assessment (EA) for Improvements to the Defense Fuel Receipt Pipelines MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, Florida


    Publication date :

    2021


    Size :

    192 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English