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PANAMA CANAL TREATY
TRANSITION.... 1979-1999
Summary of Treaty
Transition Milestones
Military Property
Transfers to Panama
Treaty Impact on Military |
MILITARY
PROPERTY TRANSFERS (1979-1999) (continued)
| DATE |
PROPERTY
|
REMARKS |
| 1996/
Oct 1 |
Fort
Amador - Navy sector and remainder of Army sector (except for Bryan Hall in
Navy sector; Pacific side)
197.9 acres (Navy - 45.5 acres;
Army -152.4) with:
 | Total of 263
facilities/buildings, including:
 | Remaining 129 Army housing
units and 79 Navy housing units;
| 15 other facilities,
including large office building complex (the Navy's Bryan
Hall), Army officers club, gas station and shoppette, a
golf club, golf course, chapel, transient quarters, and
swimming pool. |
|
| Adjusted book value:
$49,998,000 (Navy sector - $11,900,000; Army sector -
$38,098,000). |
|
USE BY PANAMA:
| Country Inn & Suites,
a new hotel constructed by a group of Panamanian investors
UNESA headed by Guillermo Quijano and inaugurated August 2001,
features 250 rooms, swimming pool and other recreation
facilities, and a TGIFridays restaurant. |
COUNTRY
INN & SUITES, new hotel inaugurated August 2001,
near the site of the Balboa Yacht Club. [Photo by
WHO, 2003]
|
|
Army and Navy
Property
Fort
Amador- Army-
History
Fort
Amador- Navy-
History
Map-Fort
Amador- Army
Map-Fort
Amador- Navy
Amador-New
Uses
|
| 1996/
Dec 5 |
Diablo
Elementary School (Pacific
side)
USE BY PANAMA:
Panama National Police Canal Area
Station (formerly at Balboa)
|
DODDS
- Army Property |
| 1996/
Dec 13 |
Semaphore Hill
Long-Range Radar and Communications Link site
(Pacific side
enroute to Gamboa)
The facility consists of two
buildings on 35 acres: the three-floor high radome tower (building
1100) consisting of 3,926 square feet of construction and a small
police entry control building (building 1103) consisting of 30
square feet.
 Constructed
by the U.S. Government in 1965 in a 35.1 acre area on a hilltop
off Gaillard Highway enroute to Gamboa in what is now the Soberana
National Forest. Because of the low noise level in this area, the
receiver reception was excellent. For several years after
construction the site was considered critical to canal operations.
From
1969 to 1979 the site was used jointly by the U.S. Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Panama Canal Company (PCC,
predecessor of the Panama Canal Commission). On June 30, 1979, the
FAA terminated its use of the site and the PCC continued its use
of the site (264 squre feet area).
In
September 1988, the site was reactivated as Site One of the
Department of Defense/Drug Enforcement Administration's Caribbean
Basin Radar Network (CBRN) with a TPS-70 radar system. The CBRN
was a network of radars located in six South American and
Caribbean countries adjacent to the Caribbean Sea (including
Panama and two off-coast islands) used for detecting suspected
drug trafficking flights and arms trafficking from South
America, increase airspace management, and support
host-nation sovereignty.
The
site was deactivated in June 1995 following the removal of the
radar system. The PCC permit with the U.S. Air Force for use of
its portion of the facility expired in January 1996. The site had
been vacant from then until its transfer from the U. S. Air Force
to the Government of Panama in December 1996.
USE BY PANAMA:
Converted into Canopy Tower
ecolodge and nature observatory, a
bird and wildlife observation center and six-room lodging,
established in 1998 by Raul Para de Arias as an ecological tourist
area to study the varied wildlife and flora existing in the midst
of the tropical rainforest in the
Semaphore Hill/Gamboa area.
CANOPY TOWER
Related link: http://www.canopytower.com
|
Air
Force Property
|
| 1997/
Jan 15 |
Arraijan
Tank Farm (underground
bulk fuel storage tanks and fuel distribution complex; constructed
in1942) (On Pacific side near Howard Air Force Base along the
Pan-American highway)
807 acres with:
| Twenty-five 27,000-barrel and
six 50,000-barrel capacity underground tanks, plus five tanks
earlier taken out of service;
| Five pipelines connecting the
Tank Farm, via pump house on Rodman Naval Station, to Rodman
Pier 1. (The portion of the systems on Rodman Naval Station
were licensed to the Government of Panama until transfer of
Rodman Naval Station in April 1999.)
| Adjusted book value:
$27,028,000 |
| |
USE BY PANAMA:
Saudi Arabia-United States Mobil
Oil-Alireza firm was awarded a contract by the Panamanian government
in 1997 (upon transfer of the facility) to modernize and operate
the tank farm and nearby docks and pumping facilities at Rodman Naval Station.
|
Navy
Property
Arraijan
Tank Farm- New Uses
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