[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, MUNITIONS: Monterey Downs, Ft. Ord (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Monterey Downs could run up against Army schedule

By Phillip Molnar
Monterey Herald (CA)
December 10, 2014

Seaside - Some of the land the proposed Monterey Downs development  
sits on will not be officially clear of military ordnance until at  
least late 2017, according to a new Army cleanup schedule.

Fort Ord’s Base Realignment and Closure office says it will now take  
until September 2017 to reach the last step in an approval process  
over the cleanup of hidden munitions.

The schedule was updated in November for the Parker Flats area, where  
much of the project is proposed to go. Roughly nine months earlier,  
it had the process finishing up around January 2016.

Monterey Downs chief operations officer Beth Palmer said the new  
schedule was of little concern because the physical cleanup of the  
land was done.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.montereyherald.com/business/20141211/monterey-downs-could- 
run-up-against-army-schedule

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