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TABLE 1
Parcel 1 and Adjacent Building/Structure Chronological Usage List
| Buildings/ Structures | Owner | Map Grid | Year Built | Year Removed | Area (SQ FT) | Current Uses | Past Uses | Comments |
| Parcel 1 Current Structure | ||||||||
| B/001 | NASA | N10-E60 | 1929 | N/A | 913.023 | NE Box shop-shipping;North-Tool crib;fuselage assembly;find shop-waterbased collant;Houses engineering and administrative offices, conference rooms, display areas, clean room and laboratories. DEI room holds shuttle mockup;bonded storage | Manufacturing: 1955-Chemical Milling, Plating, Silk Screening;Bonding and Assembly;tool maching;sheet metal;Welding and brazing;1990s-Fluid Dynamics Lab present. DEI room once held Apollo 13 capsule;tooling. | Main manufacutring area for NASA Downey |
| B/009 | NASA | S40-E70 | 1955 | N/A | 24,000 | Main Cafeteria | ||
| B/010 | NASA | N51-E70 | 1929 | N/A | 16,355 | Wood ship; plant operation; welding ship in NE end. | Support | Houses plant maintenance and offices;wood shop, bag ft sheet metal. Discharges to Charley sewer |
| B/011 | NASA | S40-W30 | 1941 | N/A | 60,160 | Data management office, logistics warehousing, manufacturing and kiting | Manufacturing: Environmental test labs, 1967;Bonded warehouse, 1967 to present. | By 1960 offices with test cells on eastern building exterior. Missles Division, November 18, 1960;First floor and Mez B/11; Drawing D-11A-44 |
| B/014 | NASA | S40-E90 | 1956 | N/A | 3,700 | Fire Station, protective services, control center. | ||
| B/025 | NASA | N51-E92 | 1942 | N/A | 5,285 | Plant services, storage. | Support;Manufacturing, 1967; Paint and acid storage (1964) | Fourt USTs associated with building (3-1000 gallon and on UST) stored wastewater |
| B/035 | NASA | N/A | Engineering/Unlabled | |||||
| B/041 | NASA | N67-E105 | 1948 | N/A | 45,705 | Mostly abandoned, some miscellaneous storage | Manufacturing: Plastics and Processing;model shop; paint spraying;manufacturing support;heat treating, tempering; coldplating;mockup. | Sump on East side receives quick quench colling water, degreasers (TCA) furnaces (PCB) oils;hydraulic;heat treat Hazmat plan indicates Refrigerant 113 storage SW end of building;Oil quenching tank located central portion of building |
| B/042 | NASA | N53-E53 | 1942 | N/A | 9,765 | Maintenance facility; steam cleaning NW end; three stage clarified | Support, Maintenace, garage; (N50E45) Flammable Chemical storage area, garage; 1989 (N50E55) Battery storage area-Canopy 744. | July 96 UST removed;vehicle maintenance in aarage;ste clean bay, residual material discharges to floor drain which discharges to a cement pit, pit is pumped out every 6 months |
| B/051 | NASA | N70-E132 | 1958 | N/A | 240 | Loading dock area | Engineering/Unlabeled; Blueprint and trucking office | |
| B/055 | NASA | N45-E50 | 1954 | N/A | 2,105 | Engineering/Unlabeled; Electric power station | Located along North end of B/001;incorporated into B/001 1974 | |
| B/061 | NAA | N117-E115 | 1964 | N/A | 17,360 | Surplus storage/sales area | Tube processing, silk screeing,;Freon IPA flush parts;tube fabrication;washout area; chemical processing;fluid systems fabrication;ultrasonic cleaning, passivating; etching, salt brazing, precision cleaning;major functions performed | Degreaser, descaler, processing tanks not used for 4-5 years chrome rinse and mixed rinse sump;outside building used for surplus storage. Canopy 737 located immediately North B/061-small equipment, some gasoline storage. Built in 19? plating line, Tanks 6 to 23 and 34 and a tube cleaning the Tanks 1-5 and 23-33; the tube cleaning line expanded to it is color chem film line. By 1974 the plating line was removed |
| B/101 | NASA | N58-E117 | 1948 | N/A | 4,060 | Office space | Manufacturing;Detailed Fabrication;Production control; upholstery room | |
| B/108 | NASA | N21-E17 | 1950 | N/A | 430 | Unknown | Engineering/Unlabeled;Vault | Appeared not to have an entrance on the first floor, c? entrance to building,at all. |
| B/114 | NASA | N61-E87 | 1952 | N/A | 580 | Maintenance yard office,painting crew locker area | Engineering/Unlabeled;Warehouse, offices | Building located adjacent Canopy 701 and B/262 (Paint chemical storage area). Has open air canopy used to store chemicals, such as paint cans and refrigerants. Used by the Maintenance Department. |
| B/118 | NASA | S15-E90 | 1952 | N/A | 2,540 | Storage | Engineering/Unlabeled;Tool fabricaton;Strain gauge tab (1964); Aero physics unit (1964); 1980-S9-E75 building used for machine coolant and oil storage;grind ship (1986) | Sump located at the southwest corner of the building. |
| B/119 | NASA | S10-E100 | 1967 | N/A | 6,400 | Central Utility area/Cooling Plant for 8/001; houses the main chiller and hot water plant that supports B/001,B/009, and B/289 | 1980 - chemical storage area (S20-E90) | Has two 300 ton chillers and two 800 ton cooling towers installed in 1966-67. |
| B/122 | NASA | S40-E10 | 1941 | 1967? | 1,380 | Storage;part of B/001 | ||
| B/131 | NASA | 120-N25 | N/A | Storage | Manufacturing; Paint area, sign and placard fabricaton;Part of B/001 | No building listed, although old drawings indicate located west end of B/001. | ||
| B/133* | NASA | E120-N30 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Lumber Storage | Located adjacent B/001, incorporated into B/001 at a very ? date. | |
| B/134 | NASA | N005-E115 | N/A | N/A | 5,560 | Quality assurance X-ray inspection;darkroom for developing film | Utilized lead shields;4160 volt transformer;tanks of unknown size and use historically located north of building. | Portable transformers for x-ray equipment identified as usi containg oils as a collant. |
| B/143 | NASA | N96-E92 | N/A | N/A | 290 | Pumphouse | Engineering/Unlabeled;Paint area, oribital shuttle. | |
| B/199 | NASA | B106-E106 | 1967 | 1967? | 70 | Wastewater treatment system | Office;pretreatment sytem;Area clarifier,boiler blowdown clarifier. 1959 drawing (NAA #40201AC) shows water treatment unit north of B/277, the west end is shown as having storage tank. | |
| B/217 | NASA | N45-E40 | N/A | N/A | 240 | Support Generator Room | ||
| B/221 | NASA | N82-E102 | N/A | N/A | 295 | Compressor Room | Engineering unlabled;compressor room | Part of B/001 |
| B/226 | NASA | N45-E83 | N/A | 83 | Empty | Engineering/Unlabeled Tool crib | Listed as part of B/001 as of August 1974 | |
| B/227 | NASA | N45-E70 | 1955 | N/A | 2,600 | Empty | Engineering/Unlabeld; Tool crib | Listed as incorporated into B/001 as of July 1974. |
| B/239 | NASA | S38-E46 | 1959 | N/A | 600 | Boiler room | Engineering/Unlabeled;Boiler and service area | |
| B/244 | NASA | N92-E101 | 1956 | N/A | 10,155 | Miscellaneous equipment storage, no longer in use. | Manufacturing;Lab and Test Materials and processing;chemical process control lab;Lab Passivating, cadmium plating, nicket and tin plating, anodizing, metallic dye processes;storage, tool control, processing, upholstery storage (1993); Area N100E105 used for hazardous waste accumulaton and corrosive chemicals storage (1980); tooling storage; dry chemical storage (1975), NE corner of building;Honeycomb area. 1959 drawing shows west side used for Chem Mfg. north of this area and east side used for parts accumulaton and cleaning lines (NAA, October 1959, Dwg 40201-AF) By 1970 the chemical milling process tanks removed and building converted to a metal finishing area on the east side. | Processing/plating tanks still remain inside bilding;chemical milling facility built in 1956, consisting of two sections, a c- sections, and an etching section; area also used for hazard waste accumulation and chemical storage. |
| B/255 | NASA | N86-E92 | 1956 | N/A | 1,520 | Electric power station | Location of substations 501C,D,E,F. | |
| B/262 | NASA | N86-E95 | 1957 | N/A | 125 | Hazardous chemical storage | Engineering/Unlabled:1980-(N49-E90) corrosive storage area | Attachmed to B/114 |
| B/267 | NASA | N70E130 | 1967 | N/A | 240 | Traffic office | Engineering/Unlabeled:Traffis, trucking office | Small storage area in the back of the bulding;small quant gas cylinders and some corrosive material located in this |
| B/276 | NASA | N82-E113 | 1959 | N/A | 6,000 | Coldplate processing and heat sink fabrication | Manufacturing;coldplate processing and chemical etch facility (1968);metal finishing operations consisted of Aluminum and stainless stell coldplate cleaning with acids and alkaline solutions. | Processing tanks 301,317,351-357; Degreaser pit #350, rinse and wastewater sump located south of building; cool tower west experior of bilding. Has welding workshop, a brazing furnace, scrubbers, cooling tower, and evaporating condensers. 1959 drawing (NAA Dwg. 41201AF) sows it as being used to painting and flow coating. |
| B/277 | NASA | N82-E113 | 1959 | N/A | 8,575 | Processing, metal cleaning | Manufacturing,Passlvating,cadmium plating, nickel and tin plating, anodizing, metallic dye processes;storage, tool control processing, upholstery storage (1993); tooling storage;dry chemical storage(1975), northeast corner of bilding;1959 building interior configured differently. Tube cleaning room on northwest end, plating and Chem Milling (research and developmentunit) on north and northeast, and on the south (Tanks 250-277). The plating area (tanks 1-62), scribing and layout in southwest end, and sewing group on southeast end, fume scrubber and overflows sump on the northeast exterior (NAA October 28, 1958. Relocation and Rehabilitation Metal Finishing facilities, Dwgs. 412030-AF and 41201-AF) By 1971 facility reconfigured and current configurations of tanks installed by 1974. | A total of 20 processing tanks located in this building;was and mixed rinse sump northeast and;vapor degreaser; |
| B/282 | NASA | S118-E110 | 1953 | N/A | 110 | Gatehouse | Gatehouse | Gatehouse located adjacent to Gate 11. |
| B/287 | NASA | N96-E127 | 1963 | N/A | 27,460 | Surplus sales storage area | Manufacturing;Bonding;passivating,cadmium plating, nickel and tin plating, anodizing, metallic dye processes;storage, tool control, processing paints and coatings, dry film lubricants; bonding and test, plastics, painting, propulsion and power. Hazardous waste accumulation area on southeast (N83E138) in 1980. Tanks installed in 1966. | Sulfuric acid;chrom;Dl water system receives overflow l 203-40`IPA, toluane, MEK, naphtha; vapor degreaser;FF booth; SE mixing room, solvents/chemical cabinets. B/118 machines moved to B/287 1993(mills, lathe); ultrasonic ul inspection unit on southwest side. |
| B/292 | NASA | N110-E100 | 1963 | N/A | 6,000 | Surplus sales storage area | Manufacturing:Tube processing, Silk Screening;Freon, IPA flush parts; tube bending;washout area;chemical processing;fluid systems fabricaton;ultrasonic cleaning,passvating;etching, salt brazing. | Canopy located on the SW end of the building was once used a paint stripping operation, a welding shop. a sump associated with that activity is located adjacent to the Canopy now used for storage of old welding shop equipment. |
| B/455 | NASA | S30W10 | 1990 | N/A | Guard house at Gate 100 | |||
| B/639 | NASA | N45-E117 | 1959 | N/A | 400 | Engineering/Unlabeled;Shed,compressor room | ||
| B/665 | NASA | N45-E38 | 1955 | N/A | 48 | Storage shed | Gatehouse | Listed as incorporated into B/001 as of August 1974. |
| B/701 | NASA | N60-E96 | 1962 | N/A | 3,600 | Maintenance;paint booths'paint and chemical storage | Painting, protective coating, dry-film lubricants, thermo-controlled paint and coatins. 1980 (N50-E90) Hazardous waste accumulation and flammable chemical storage area;maintenance. | Three dry-type paint booths. Has a sink which discharges Sump 26 and ultimately to Charley sewer. |
| B/723 | NASA | S of B299 | 1963 | N/A | 900 | Limited chemical storage | Engineering/Unlabeled | |
| B/736 | NASA | NW of B041 | N/A | N/A | 90 | Limited Chemical storate (550) gallons | 1980-Hazardous waste accumulaton;chemical storage area | One of the two 55-gallon drums in the storage area is labeled containing PCB's, the other is labeled non-PCBS. Main pak at B/041 |
| B/737 | NASA | N130-E110 | 1989 | N/A | N/A | 1980-Hazardous waste accumulation and flammable chemical storage | North of B/061 | |
| B/740 | Rockwell | N100-E110 | 1986 | N/A | 570 | 1980 - Corrosive chemical storage area east of B/277 | ||
| B/767 | NASA | S12-E97 | 1964 | N/A | 1,860 | Maintenance area,oil and chemical storage | ||
| Tank Pad | Mixed rinse tank;service tank (D water);wash neutralizer | Manufacturing | East end'dual bed deionizers;water softeners;service tan system sump |