[CPEO-IRF] Engineer Proving Ground growth at Ft. Belvoir (VA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army Intends to Place Influx Of Workers at Proving Ground
Proposal Irks Fairfax Officials, Who Fear Traffic Will Worsen

By Alec MacGillis
Washington Post
July 28, 2006

The Army proposed yesterday to locate most of the 22,000 military and 
civilian workers who are being transferred to Fort Belvoir at the nearby 
Engineer Proving Ground, going against the wishes of Fairfax County 
officials, who predicted a traffic nightmare in the congested area.

Army consultants on the federal base realignment and closure process 
recommended moving most of the agencies to the proving ground, a mostly 
wooded 800-acre parcel several miles from the post that was used as a 
munitions test site and is all but vacant. The major units proposed to 
move there include the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, now in 
Bethesda, and elements of the Washington Headquarters Service.

Also proposed for the proving ground is the new National Museum of the 
U.S. Army, which the Army had been leaning toward building on the main 
post. The most significant addition to the main post would be elements 
of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, which would be combined with the 
base's hospital into a new facility.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/27/AR2006072701702.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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