[CPEO-IRF] Badgeer Plant (WI) land transfer

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[The Badger plan was closed outside the BRAC process, so the General 
Services Administration has principal responsibility for its 
disposition. - LS]


At last, hope for reuse of Badger plant

By Scott De Laruelle
Baraboo News Republic (WI)
August 8, 2005

PRAIRIE DU SAC - Dividing 7,354 acres at the decommissioned Badger Army 
Ammunition Plant has not been a quick or easy process, but Saturday's 
gathering at the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center farm celebrated a 
welcome first step. Last September, the U.S. Army turned over 1,943 
acres of the plant to the federal Department of Agriculture to be used 
by the farm, and about 50 people turned out to officially commemorate 
the acquisition.

"We're celebrating the first step in the agricultural reuse of Badger," 
said Steve Piotrowski, assistant to U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., who 
credited local officials and area residents for sticking with a land 
distribution process that likely will continue for some time. The USDA 
is the first entity to receive land from the plant in a land 
distribution process that has inched along for several years, in part 
due to questions about lingering contamination.

The Ho-Chunk Nation and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources also 
are expected to receive land as part of the distribution process. Farm 
manager Rick Walgenbach said he looks forward to collaborating with both 
entities when their lands are transferred.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wiscnews.com/bnr/news/index.php?ntid=49778&ntpid=2

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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