2005 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 29 Apr 2005 15:51:05 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] Principi predicts
 
[This article reinforces my belief that the time for states and localities to take action to prevent military bases from closing has passed. The purpose of the BRAC Commission is not to revise the list, but to take the flak. Perhaps actions taken in the past to prevent encroachment have influenced Pentagon basing decisions, but the base retention industry - studies, lobbyists, petitions, and demonstrations - is in nearly all cases a misdirected, or wasted effort. But in threatened communities, it's probably political suicide to suggest that. - LS]


Principi: Pentagon a force to be reckoned with in BRAC process


By: MARK WALKER
North County Times (CA)
April 29, 2005

A Rancho Santa Fe resident heading the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission said Thursday that it will be difficult to remove any bases from a list of military installations the Pentagon proposes to shutter.

Anthony Principi said it will be even harder to add a base to the list that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will issue on May 13.

"My philosophy is to not be inclined to add bases to the list," Principi said in a telephone interview with the North County Times from his offices in Washington. "To take a base off the list, the commission has to find that the secretary of defense deviated from the force structure requirements, and it takes seven commissioners to agree."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/04/29/news/top_stories/23_29_514_28_05.txt


-- Lenny Siegel Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 http://www.cpeo.org

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