Privately operated Bannister Transformation and Development has taken deed to an old nuclear-weapon support facility in Kansas City, Mo., the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) confirmed Friday.
The semiautonomous Department of Energy stockpile steward transferred ownership of more than 200 acres of the Bannister Federal Complex in November, according to an NNSA press release.
“We have fulfilled our commitment to Congress and the residents of Kansas City to transfer this excess property in a timely and safe manner,” Frank Klotz, NNSA adminsitrator, said in the release. “In the process, we are saving hundreds of millions in future tax dollars that the federal government would otherwise have had to spend to decommission the site on its own.”
The NNSA and its contractors once manufactured non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons at Bannister. The work is now done at the nearby Kansas City National Security Campus, managed by a Honeywell subsidiary.
CenterPoint-Zimmer, which built the new 1.5-million-square-foot, $687 million National Security Campus, will be project manager for the demolition and remediation at Bannister. The demo is expected to take up to six years, the NNSA said. The future use of the land has not yet been determined.
The U.S. Marine Corps continues to operate an information technology facility at Bannister, on property owned by the General Services Administration.
