Luke AFB Easements

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Luke easements on the table

Air Force able to pay up to $27.3 million to protect base

David Madrid
The Arizona Republic
Apr. 7, 2004 12:00 AM

Military negotiators will soon work with landowners near Luke Air Force
Base in hopes of reaching agreements to buy permanent land easements
that will prevent residential encroachment on the base.

It's part of an effort in which the federal government gave the Air
Force $27.3 million: $6 million to buy land around a munitions storage
area south of the base and to expand the base to encompass the storage
area, and $21.3 million to buy the easements.

The program will work like this: The Air Force will attempt to buy the
easements from owners of land in the five zones within two of the base's
flight paths. One is the base's northern flight path clear zone and
accident potential zone one, and the other is the base's southern flight
path clear zone and accident potential zones one and two.
Those areas encompass about 1,768 acres, though some of that, such as
some parcels that will hold flood-control basins, won't have to be
included in the purchases.

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for the entire story, see
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/suncities/articles/0407luke0407Z1.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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