[CPEO-IRF] "Save Hangar One" signatures, Moffett Field, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Group gathers signatures to save Hangar One

By Banks Albach
Palo Alto Daily News (CA)
September 10, 2007

A group hoping to stop the Navy from tearing down Hangar One turned its 
campaign up a notch this weekend, gathering nearly 1,500 signatures in 
support of restoring Mountain View's metal leviathan along U.S. Highway 101.

Rather than demolish the 200-foot-tall, 8.5-acre hangar, a job the Navy 
has calculated to cost nearly $12.2 million, the group, Save Hangar One, 
is proposing that the Navy resurface the hangar with a thin, 
Teflon-coated fiberglass layer.

NASA, which owns the site and would be responsible for its future use, 
has estimated that demolition would cost somewhere under $30 million -- 
a much higher price tag than estimated by the Navy -- and that 
restoration would cost a little more than that amount.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/2007-9-10-mv-hangar-one

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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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