[CPEO-BIF] COMMUNITIES: "Fort Monroe [VA] cleanup continues as community board falls behind"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fort Monroe cleanup continues as community board falls behind
Restoration Advisory Board created to oversee environmental cleanup


By Robert Brauchle
Hampton Roads Daily Press (VA)
May 6, 2013|

HAMPTON - The Army is continuing its environmental cleanup at Fort  
Monroe, but has been doing so with little participation from the  
volunteer board created in 2005 to offer community input on the process.

The Fort Monroe Restoration Advisory Board is supposed to meet four  
times a year, but has not had a quorum since November 2011. That  
pattern continued this past Thursday, when seven of 14 members  
attended the scheduled meeting. At least nine voting members must be  
present for a quorum, according to the board's bylaws.

The Army never consulted with the board prior to announcing on March  
28 its plans to transfer 313 acres of the fort to the commonwealth.

Robert Reali, the Fort Monroe Base Realignment and Closure  
environmental coordinator, said the board wasn't notified because no  
environmental issues were found in the area the Army wants to transfer.
...

For the entire article, see
http://articles.dailypress.com/2013-05-06/news/dp-nws-fort-monroe- 
environment-cleanup-20130506_1_fort-monroe-authority-monroe-cleanup- 
robert-reali

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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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