[CPEO-IRF] Otis Coast Guard Station's (MA) future in doubt

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Next Otis fight: Save CG air station

By ERIC GERSHON and KEVIN DENNEHY
Cape Cod Times (MA)
November 11, 2005

The state's top political leaders were successful in a months-long
struggle to keep Otis Air National Guard Base from closing, but they are
now struggling to keep the Coast Guard air station there.

While Otis stayed open, the Air National Guard's 102nd Fighter Wing and
its F-15s are moving to western Massachusetts. The guard unit maintains
the runways and other airport infrastructure at an annual cost of $17
million to $20 million, and Coast Guard officials say they cannot afford
the cost.

In a meeting hosted by U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., in Washington,
D.C., yesterday, he and Gov. Mitt Romney reassured Coast Guard officials
that they would try to land a new military mission for Otis that would
bear the cost of runway maintenance. U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and
U.S. Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., also attended.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/nextotis11.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>
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