[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT, REALIGNMENT: Proposed Malmstrom AFB (MT) buffer

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

First step taken on runway land; time for public comment

Editorial
Great Falls Tribune (MT)
Apr 8, 2008

It's a price range, not a price tag, but at least we now have some 
notion of what it might cost to preserve the open space off the ends of 
the idle runway at Malmstrom Air Force Base.

A study commissioned by the Great Falls Development Authority found that 
buying the land could cost between $5.5 million and $6.8 million.

Buying "development rights," the appraiser reported, could cost from 
$2.8 million to $4.1 million. Buying development rights would allow the 
owners to continue present agricultural uses of the roughly 2,000 acres 
off the ends of the runway, but it would preclude residential or 
business development.

For those who haven't followed this issue, such purchases would keep the 
graduated accident protection zones off the ends of the runway 
unencumbered and, it is hoped, more attractive to the Air Force for 
bringing a new flying mission to Malmstrom.

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For the entire editorial, see
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080408/OPINION01/804080304

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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