Editing Fort Wingate (section)

===21st century===
*Though the fort's mission ended, the [[Missile Defense Agency]] (MDA) continues to use 6,465 acres for launching target rockets to [[White Sands Missile Range]] (WSMR).<ref name=IAP>[http://www.ftwingate.org/docs/pub/FWDA_IAP_Current.pdf FY2016 Fort Wingate Depot Activity Base Realignment & Closure Installation Action Plan] 29 November 2016, 41 pp</ref>{{rp|6}}
*In December 2005, the [[New Mexico Environment Department]] (NMED) issued the Army a [[Resource Conservation and Recovery Act]] (RCRA) Permit.<ref name=IAP/>{{rp|6}}
*As of 2016, FWDA spread across 21,131 acres, occupied 15,280 acres of land and a BRAC acreage of 14,666.<ref name=IAP/>{{rp|6}}
*Environmental cleanup and land transfer{{when|date=June 2017}} to the surrounding community continues to the present, through at least 2022. 5,854 acres have already been transferred to the Department of Interior.<ref name=IAP/>{{rp|6}} Explosives, [[perchlorate]]s and nitrates are the primary contaminant in the northern groundwater plumes which have not migrated off-post, all other sites consist of relatively minor soil or building contamination without groundwater issues but with explosives, [[SVOCs]], and metals like lead.<ref name=IAP/>{{rp|11}}