As U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi enters her last weeks in leadership, she has the unique opportunity to leave her city an invaluable gift that has eluded it for decades — a fully remediated Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.

The shipyard sits on 638 acres of bayfront property in The City’s southeast corner. Due to the disposal of massive amounts of post-World War II radioactive waste, Hunters Point has been a federal Superfund site since 1989. The U.S. Navy still owns the former commercial shipyard and is responsible for cleaning up its pollution under the supervision of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.