[CPEO-MEF] Cannon Air Force Base (NM) environmental issues

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air Force plans impact study

By Marlena Hartz
Portales News-Tribune (NM)
June 23, 2006

The Air Force must evaluate the potential environmental impact of 
proposed Special Ops training missions at Cannon Air Force Base and 
Melrose Bombing Range before aircraft can be moved to the base, an Air 
Force spokeswoman said Thursday.

Officials announced Tuesday 92 aircraft would be transferred to Cannon 
when the Air Force Special Operations 16th Wing inherits the base over 
the next 15 months. The transfer is part of the federal base-closing 
process in which the Department of Defense decided to relocate Cannon’s 
F-16 wing and find a new mission for the High Plains installation.

A date for the launch of the environmental impact study has not been 
set, according to Jean Schaeffer, secretary of Air Force Public Affairs 
and chief of the Air Force Current Operations Division.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pntonline.com/engine.pl?station=portales&template=storyfull.html&id=8303

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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>
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