[CPEO-IRF] Pascagoula Naval Station (MS) downsizing

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

There'll be life after BRAC on Singing River Island

By KAREN NELSON
BILOXI SUN HERALD (MS)
May 8, 2005

PASCAGOULA - Singing River synergy stays no matter what BRAC says

Naval Station Pascagoula has been dwindling for two years. Like the rest 
of the Navy, it's downsizing.

Two cruisers are gone and won't be replaced and a third is scheduled to 
be decommissioned in late fall or next year.

So whether the small base, situated on two-thirds of a dredge-spoils 
island south of the city, makes the Base Realignment and Closure 
Commission hit list this week may not be as important as it once was to 
the community.

"Some people are thinking, 'They might close the base. The sky is 
falling,' " said George Freeland, director of the Jackson County 
Economic Development Foundation. "But the truth is that economic impact 
happens every time a cruiser is decommissioned.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/local/11592971.htm


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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
http://www.cpeo.org

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