[CPEO-MEF] PRESERVATION, REUSE: "Hangar One advocates call on Navy to maintain protective coating" at Moffett Field, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hangar One advocates call on Navy to maintain protective coating

By Jason Green
Palo Alto Daily News/San Jose Mercury News (CA)
August 24, 2013

Pressure is mounting against the U.S. Navy to pony up the money  
needed to maintain a protective coating that was applied to the steel  
skeleton of Hangar One in Mountain View.

Added as the enormous Depression Era-structure was stripped of its  
PCB-laced siding, the coating is supposed to seal in lingering toxins  
and guard against the elements while a restoration and reuse plan is  
developed.

The Navy hosted an open house-style public hearing in Mountain View  
on Thursday night to gather feedback on its so-called "proposed plan"  
for ensuring the coating is maintained over the next three decades.  
Advocates for restoring Hangar One were quick to point out that the  
document did not specify which agency should pay the roughly $6  
million cost.

....

For the entire article, see
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23933066/hangar-one- 
advocates-call-navy-maintain-protective-coating

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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