[CPEO-MEF] San Diego (CA) airports

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Congress Talks Back

By ROB DAVIS
Voice of San Diego (CA)
May 9, 2006

Deep down in a voluminous bill outlining next year's Pentagon spending, 
U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-El Cajon, has fired a warning shot across the 
bow of the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority.

The $512 billion Pentagon spending package includes a pay raise for 
soldiers, more armored Humvees and increased funding for technology that 
deters deadly roadside bombs used by the Iraq insurgency. Way down on 
page 518 of the 552-page bill is a provision banning commercial use of 
the three local military bases the airport authority is studying as 
possible homes for a new airport.

The spending package was approved Friday by a 60-1 vote of the House 
Armed Services Committee, which Hunter leads as chairman. The bill moves 
this week to the House floor, just as the airport authority prepares to 
release in-depth studies May 15 outlining the costs of building 
commercial airports at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Naval Air 
Station North Island and Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=euLTJbMUKvH&b=412359&ct=2397587

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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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