[CPEO-IRF] Galena (AK) runway maintenance

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State to help fund Galena runway maintenance

By R.A. DILLON
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (AK)
April 12, 2006

JUNEAU--The Senate Finance Committee approved a state match to continue 
partial military involvement in maintaining the state-owned runway in 
Galena.

The $95,000 in state general funds would replace federal money lost when 
the U.S. Air Force decided last year to pull out of the Yukon River 
community.

The Air Force has had a presence in Galena for more than 50 years, but 
the Base Closure and Realignment Commission chose to stop using the 
community as a forward operating location last summer.

The town, which has taken over part of the former military base for use 
as a boarding school, was shocked into action. City and tribal officials 
met with the state to discuss possible solutions for keeping the base open.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~3288563,00.html#

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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