Boeing is actively cleaning up locations affected by past business practices. Working with national, state and local regulatory agencies, we strive for an open exchange of information with community members, government representatives and other stakeholders. Our goal is to clean up sites in a timely, efficient and protective manner.
Boeing spends approximately $100 million per year cleaning up former manufacturing facilities and sites where Boeing, or companies we have acquired, shipped chemicals and other waste for treatment, storage or disposal. In many cases, waste-processing facilities that used treatment methods deemed acceptable in the past are being cleaned up to meet or exceed current environmental standards that are more stringent.
We continue to make progress as Boeing completed obligations at six sites in 2010, including locations in Arizona, California, New Jersey, Texas and Washington state. Since acquiring McDonnell Douglas, parts of Rockwell International and other companies in the late 1990s, Boeing has completed cleanup obligations at nearly 150 sites.