[CPEO-IRF] "Preparing for the Worst"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Jitters in Kittery: Base closure plans spook politicians

By NATE PARDUE
Foster's Daily Democrat (NH)
May 1, 2005 

KITTERY, Maine - Even as the Department of Defense urges communities
threatened by possible base closure to take hundreds of thousands of
dollars to plan for that possibility, many elected officials insist it
is too soon to start readying for the worst.

Communities like Kittery and state agencies like the Workforce
Opportunity Council have already begun to form contingency plans for
employees of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard should it close.

At least some of those plans have come together using a $175,000 federal
grant rewarded to communities that might lose their bases.

Meanwhile, members of the congressional delegations from both New
Hampshire and Maine are not publicly addressing any closure scenarios,
saying their attention has been geared instead toward keeping the yard open.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050501/NEWS23/50501048

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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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