2007 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 17 May 2007 15:33:44 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] Willow Grove (PA) legislative language
 
Wording may save airstrip at station

Lucas K. Murray
Public Spirit/The Willow Grove Guide (PA)
Mazy 15, 2007


Just 73 words tacked onto a defense spending bill could mean salvation for the airstrip at the Willow Grove Naval Air Station.

That is if it clears the Senate and is signed into law by the president.
Introduced to the House of Representatives May 8 and passed late May 10, H.R. 2206, the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovered and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act of 2007 includes a paragraph that would breathe new life into Gov. Ed Rendell's presumed-dead plan for Willow Grove.

Section 1323 of the bill makes provision for the secretary of the Navy to transfer all lands, easements, facilities and other air operations property at Willow Grove to the Air Force, at no cost, for the operation of a Joint Interagency Installation.

The base would be used by the Pennsylvania National Guard, Department of Defense and other government agencies to carry out Homeland Security, national defense and emergency preparedness missions.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18346092&BRD=1306&PAG=461&dept_id=187834&rfi=6

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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>
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