[CPEO-MEF] Naval Base Ventura County

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

County, Port at Odds Over Base

Supervisors accuse harbor officials of seeking the closure of the Port 
Hueneme naval installation to acquire facilities for expansion.

By Catherine Saillant
Los Angeles Times
March 23, 2005

Jockeying over jobs-rich Naval Base Ventura County reached a fever pitch 
Tuesday, with the Board of Supervisors condemning what it says are 
behind-the-scenes efforts to have the base added to the Pentagon's 
closure list, while operators of an adjacent port say they are simply 
exploring expansion opportunities.

Ventura County supervisors voted unanimously to ask port commissioners 
to "cease and desist" efforts to expand business at the Port of Hueneme, 
saying their efforts make it harder to keep the base off a list of 
military installations that the Pentagon is considering shutting down.

The Pentagon is expected to make recommendations on the latest round of 
closures in mid-May.

One supervisor accused port commissioners of trying to get the base on 
the list so they can acquire wharves and land needed to expand a small 
but growing enterprise on the only deep-water port between Los Angeles 
and San Francisco.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-base23mar23,1,3001910.story?coll=la-headlines-california&ctrack=3&cset=true

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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
http://www.cpeo.org


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