National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien announced this week that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has contributed an additional $20 million toward the remediation of dioxin at the Biên Hòa Airbase Area, the primary site for the storage and handling of Agent Orange during the U.S.-Vietnam War and the largest remaining dioxin hotspot in Vietnam.
This announcement increases
USAID’s funding to date for the clean-up of Biên Hòa to over $110 million. This
joint effort between USAID and the Government of Vietnam’s Air Force-Air
Defence Command (ADAFC) is expected to take a total of 10 years to complete.
Trigon Associates, LLC, a woman-owned small business based in New Orleans,
Louisiana, is providing the master plan for the multi-year clean-up project.
USAID’s work to improve the lives
of those in and around Biên Hòa follows the successful conclusion in 2018 of a
similar project between USAID and the Government of Vietnam to remediate
contamination caused by dioxin at Đà Nẵng Airport.
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