[CPEO-IRF] Coast Guard weighs options at Otis (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Coast Guard weighs options

By KEVIN DENNEHY and ERIC GERSHON
Cape Cod Times
September 4, 2005

For months Coast Guard officials said they wouldn't be able to afford
the operation of Air Station Cape Cod without the help of Otis Air
National Guard base - and the $17 million in airfield maintenance the
Air Guard pays each year.

So now that a federal commission has approved plans to close Otis, Coast
Guard officials are looking at their options.

And they include leaving Cape Cod.

Among the options being considered informally are finding the funds to
stay on Otis, transporting the station to Barnstable Municipal Airport
in Hyannis, or even to Hanscom Air Force Base, a Coast Guard spokesman said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/coastguard4.htm

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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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