[CPEO-IRF] Process for adding to the list

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

This article does a good job of explaining today's actions/potential 
actions by the Base Realignment and Closure Commission. Today 
commissioners are deciding whether to add bases to the list of possible 
closures, not voting to close them.

Remember, as I have written before. Some of the 11 bases being addressed 
today - such as Maine's Brunswick Naval Air Station - stand alone in the 
review, while others - such as the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard - are 
being considered as alternatives to installations on the Pentagon's list.

Lenny

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Bases Could Be Added to Closure List
By LIZ SIDOTI
Associated Press/San Francisco Chronicle
July 19, 2005

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Military bases in 11 states and the nation's capital 
could be added to the Pentagon's list of proposed closures and 
downsizings but any such changes would be preliminary, the chairman of 
the commission reviewing the plan said Tuesday.

Before voting on additions, Chairman Anthony Principi cautioned that 
adding a base to the list "does not necessarily mean that the base will 
be realigned or closed."

He said that including facilities initially spared from the Pentagon 
list simply will allow commissioners to thoroughly analyze the 
usefulness of those bases to the U.S. military — and in a few cases 
compare them to other facilities already on the list.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/07/19/national/w103753D73.DTL

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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
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