[CPEO-MEF] Otis Air Base (MA) cost sharing

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Deal needed to pay airfield costs

By KEVIN DENNEHY
Cape Cod Times
August 26, 2006

The Cape's congressional delegation is urging the Massachusetts National 
Guard to settle a cost-sharing agreement that would allow the U.S. Coast 
Guard to keep its air station on the Upper Cape.

Although the Coast Guard recently learned it will receive an 
intelligence mission at Otis Air National Guard Base to replace the 
outgoing F-15 fighter jets, it is unclear who will cover the $17 million 
annual cost of running the base's airfield.

The air station currently shares the airstrip with the 102nd Fighter 
Wing. And if the National Guard doesn't help with the costs, Coast Guard 
leaders say they can't afford to stay.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/dealneeded26.htm
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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