[CPEO-MEF] More on "encroachment"

[Steve@miltoxproj.org]

Hello all:

Many people know about the hearing held by the Senate Armed Services
Committee Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support in March on
so-called "encroachment" of communities and species on military training
ranges.

In May, the House Government Reform Committee and Armed Services Committee
have also taken up this issue.  There seems to be a full-scale attack in
progress on the Endangered Species Act in particular, driven by some
combination of military concerns and the desire of some Republicans to gut
the ESA.  The issue was also covered in the May 22, 2001 Defense Environment
Alert.

Various links follow.

House Government Reform Committee

Press Release on the May 9 hearing at 
http://www.house.gov/reform/press/_ma.01.04.26.htm
Statements from the May 9 hearing at 
http://www.house.gov/reform/military/index.htm
Letter to Pres. Bush from committee members at 
http://www.house.gov/reform/letters/05.24.01.pdf

House Armed Services Committee

Statements from May 22 hearing at 
http://www.house.gov/hasc/schedules/2001.html (scroll down)

Steve

Steve Taylor
National Organizer
Military Toxics Project
(207) 783-5091


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