[CPEO-IRF] "It's Never Too Early To Have 'plan B'"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

It's Never Too Early To Have 'plan B'
Out With The Old Military Base, In With A New Development

By ANTHONY CRONIN
New London Day (CT)
June 6, 2005

Denver - Call it a delicate hedging of bets.

While communities across the country are waging fierce public battles 
over the Pentagon's proposed list of military base closings, many also 
are beginning a more private process of at least considering a "Plan B” 
- just in case.

That's not counterproductive, say experts who have dealt with the 
federal government's nearly 20-year-old base closing and consolidation 
process. That process, called Base Closure and Realignment, or BRAC, has 
tagged the Naval Submarine Base in Groton in its current, and fifth 
round, of recommended shutdowns since the formal BRAC process began in 1988.

"If you're a smart community, you've probably got one or two people 
sitting in a back room getting prepared for the possible closure," said 
Wayne Dorband, a partner with the International Risk Group in Englewood, 
Colo. Dorband, speaking Sunday during a national base-closure conference 
in Denver sponsored by the Washington, D.C.-based NAID/ADC association 
of defense communities, said municipalities will naturally resist the 
federal government's efforts to close a military base because of the 
potential massive disruption to their economies and communities.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=111BFD39-1CD4-4626-B866-F95125334029

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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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