2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 16 Aug 2007 04:12:02 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Ft. Rucker (AL) encroachment study
 
Study will focus on encroachment around Fort Rucker

By Lance Griffin
Dothan Eagle (AL)
Augsut 15, 3007

As the Wiregrass continues to grow, community leaders hope Fort Rucker’s military mission grows as well. Now, those leaders are teaming up to make sure one growth doesn't harm the other.

Representatives from Fort Rucker, the Pentagon and as many as 10 local governments will participate in a study designed to make sure Fort Rocker's military mission doesn't suffer due to the issue of encroachment, a process by which a military base is progressively hemmed in by urban growth, competition for air space and other factors.

The Department of Defense felt strongly enough about the issue that it listed encroachment as one of the issues used to determine closure and/or realignment in the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure process.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dothaneagle.com/gulfcoasteast/dea/local_news.apx.-content-articles-DEA-2007-08-15-0024.html

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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
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