[CPEO-IRF] Lowry Air Force Base (CO) privatization

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[I'm not close enough to Lowry Air Force Base to know whether
privatization there is a good deal, but it looks like the Air Force has
found a way to "get out of Dodge": be uncooperative. It reminds me to
the stories that one of the Car-Talk guys tells about his teen-age son:
The young man manages to do such a poor job every time he accedes to
doing a chore that his parents prefer to do the work themselves. - LS]

Lowry cleanup nears

Privatization accord would allow stalled projects to proceed

By Todd Hartman
Rocky Mountain News
August 18, 2005

A dispute over environmental cleanup that has stalled redevelopment of
the former Lowry Air Force Base could be rendered moot in weeks with an
agreement that will put the work in private hands. 

The privatization accord, months in the making, would effectively push
the Air Force out of the cleanup. That would eliminate several
bureaucratic and institutional hurdles that have stalled construction of
additional homes and parks at the high-profile east Denver neighborhood. 

One key impasse that should go by the wayside: How to handle
asbestos-contaminated soil on a 22-acre parcel in an area of Lowry known
as the Northwest Neighborhood. The Air Force has resisted state demands
to clean the site, arguing that there's not enough evidence the soil
poses a risk to people. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4011108,00.html

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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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