[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Brunswick Naval Air Station (ME) Environmental Impact Statement

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

'All clear' for base land transfers

By Seth Koenig
Brunswick Times Record (ME)
January 28, 2011

BRUNSWICK - The Navy announced today it has issued its long-awaited 
record of decision on an Environmental Impact Statement for the closing 
Brunswick Naval Air Station - a landmark step in the closure process 
that allows the Navy to begin transferring ownership of base properties 
to civilian developers.

With the impact study complete, Midcoast Regional Redevelopment 
Authority (MRRA) officials say they expect to take ownership of the 
approximately 800-acre base airport as early as next month.

"It was the last milestone that needed to be completed before the Navy 
could begin the transferring process," said Steve Levesque, executive 
director of the MRRA, the group charged with overseeing base 
redevelopment. "Now the Navy is free to begin transferring properties to 
appropriate recipients, whether it’s MRRA, Family Focus, Bowdoin 
College, (Southern Maine Community College) or the town of Brunswick."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesrecord.com/articles/2011/01/28/news/doc4d430f736d031928527141.txt

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