[CPEO-IRF] "Ease pain of base closings by cleaning contaminated sites"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ease pain of base closings by cleaning contaminated sites

By REGISTER EDITORIAL BOARD
Des Moines Register
May 17, 2005


The Pentagon last week recommended closing more than 30 military bases
and a realignment that would cut 29,000 jobs.

The closures and job losses will cause economic pain, in some cases
severe. Yet the restructuring is a necessary step toward saving tax
dollars while also modernizing the military.

To help ease the pain, Congress must ensure that environmental
contamination at closed bases is cleaned up and that the sites are
quickly returned to local use, something that hasn't necessarily
happened with previous closures.

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For the entire editorial, see
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050517/OPINION03/505170366/1035/OPINION

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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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