[CPEO-IRF] Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (ME) cleanup costs

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Base advocates: Cleanup costs may be key flaw in BRAC logic

By BART JANSEN
Portland Press Herald (ME)
June 6, 2005

KITTERY - Lawmakers and advocates trying to prevent closure of the 
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard contend that the Defense Department's 
projected savings from the move fail to account for cleanup costs. Those 
costs, they say, could be extensive at a yard that has operated for two 
centuries and specializes in nuclear submarines.

The cleanup question is one of the biggest in Maine's challenge of the 
costs and savings associated with the Pentagon's recommendation to close 
the yard and take away its 4,510 jobs. The dispute is also central to 
the fight between Congress and the Defense Department about how much 
documentation must be released on how decisions were made to close 33 
bases and reduce the size of 29 others.

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For the entire article, see
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/050606bracanalysis.shtml#nugget


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

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