[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Nellis Air Force and the University of Nevada Las Vegas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Reid works on bill for UNLV, CSN land

Legislation would designate 2,000 acres for satellite campus

By STEVE TETREAULT
Las Vegas Review-Journal (NV)
September 24, 2008

WASHINGTON -- The long-held ambitions of state education leaders to 
establish a North Las Vegas campus for UNLV would get a boost through a 
bill that was announced on Tuesday in Congress.

Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., is finalizing legislation that would convey 
2,000 acres of federal land near Nellis Air Force base to the Nevada 
System of Higher Education for a UNLV satellite that could someday dwarf 
the university's main campus on Maryland Parkway.

...

The legislation could turn on one potential hangup -- the possibility of 
opposition from the Air Force, which has expressed growing concerns 
about Nellis missions being compromised by encroachment.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.lvrj.com/news/29665094.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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