[CPEO-IRF] BRAC Commission briefings this week

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Base-closure panel to get first briefings

By Otto Kreisher
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE
San Diego Union-Tribune
May 1, 2005

WASHINGTON ? The Base Realignment and Closure process will go into high
gear Tuesday with briefings for the new nine-member commission.

The commission will start with an open meeting Tuesday morning on
Capitol Hill during which base-closing experts will explain the law and
the process that they will follow.

Then will come closed briefings by intelligence officials and members of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the strategies that are shaping the
decisions on which facilities will be closed, reduced or enhanced.

The sessions are intended to prepare the commissioners for the real
work, which starts with the release of Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld's recommendations for base closures and adjustments to defense
installations across the country.

The list may be released as early as May 12, igniting a politically
charged process that will determine by year's end the fate of scores of
military facilities and the thousands of people whose livelihoods depend
on them.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20050501-9999-1n1bases.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 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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