2006 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 15 Jan 2006 07:09:42 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] Pascagoula Naval Station to rever to state of Mississippi
 
Island returns to state
Singing River facility closed by BRAC ruling

By MICHAEL NEWSOM
Biloxi Sun Herald (MS)
January 14, 2006

PASCAGOULA - The Singing River Island will revert back to the state at no cost when the Navy leaves, Gov. Haley Barbour's office announced Friday.

The 437-acre island is home to Naval Station Pascagoula, which was effectively closed in August by the Department of Defense's Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC). Members of the Governor's Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal had asked that the Navy return the island to the state.

Members of Mississippi and Texas' congressional delegations had been working on the bill since the days following the BRAC ruling. The bill also provides for the return of Naval Station Ingelside, which was also closed by BRAC, to the City of Corpus Christi, Texas.

The state will not be responsible to reimburse the Navy for any improvements it made to the island since the state donated it.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/local/13624842.htm

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