[CPEO-IRF] Homestead Air Force Base (FL)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

HOMESTEAD
Cleanup project reaches the end
After 13 years of environmental cleanup at the former Homestead Air 
Force Base, the Air Force is ready to hand over the last section of a 
601-acre land parcel to the county.

BY EMILY YEHLE
Miami Herald (FL)
July 30, 2006

With the completion of an environmental cleanup, the last 24 of 601 
acres at the former Homestead Air Force Base soon will be transferred to 
Miami-Dade County, ending a 13-year struggle to put the land to some 
public use.

The journey has been marked by political controversy, public protest and 
lots of bureaucracy.

Most of the former base was once earmarked for a controversial airport 
that would have hosted 150,000 commercial flights a day. That plan died 
in 2001 amid pollution concerns for nearby Everglades National Park, 
forcing Miami-Dade County to propose more environmentally friendly 
development.

But before the Air Force could turn over the land, a slew of agencies 
had to deem it environmentally safe. That meant the removal of 
underground fuel tanks and chemical spills, accomplished after piecemeal 
approval from differing bureaucracies.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/states/florida/counties/miami-dade/cities_neighborhoods/pinecrest/15150975.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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