[CPEO-MEF] Virginia's Outlying Landing Field list

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Virginia plugs 10 would-be OLF sites

Navy will review them during 60-day period

By Nikie Mayo
Washington Daily News (NC)
July 11, 2007

Virginia officials offered 10 potential landing field sites when they 
met with Navy leaders on Capitol Hill Tuesday, and the commonwealth had 
a mission — to look out for Oceana.

“Our intention is to protect Oceana Naval Air Station,” said Robert 
Crouch Jr., an assistant to Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine who works on 
commonwealth preparedness. “If the site in North Carolina does that, 
fine. If the site is in Virginia, fine.

“We’re just trying to increase the options for the Navy ... to put more 
choices on the menu,” Crouch said in a telephone interview Tuesday as he 
traveled back from the closed-door briefing, which included members of 
Virginia’s congressional delegation.

The Navy is sticking by its preferred landing field — “Site C” in 
Washington and Beaufort counties — but will examine each of the options 
presented Tuesday, according to Ted Brown, a spokesman for the Navy’s 
Fleet Forces Command. The 34,000-acre site in rural eastern North 
Carolina has garnered heavy political criticism of late, primarily 
because of its nearness to the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge. 
Several environmental groups and the two Site C counties successfully 
sued the Navy in 2004, leading to a court-ordered supplemental review of 
the Navy’s favored spot.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wdnweb.com/articles/2007/07/11/news/news01.txt

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