[CPEO-IRF] Ft. Belvoir (VA) museum plan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Plan would make Army museum convenient for tourists

By Jim Tice
Army Times
August 21, 2006

A proposed realignment plan for Fort Belvoir, Va., would place the 
National Museum of the Army two miles from the main post, just off 
Interstate 95, one of America’s most heavily traveled highways and 
tourist routes.

The "preferred site plan" for Fort Belvoir focuses on requirements of 
the 2005 Base Closure and Realignment Commission report. That directive 
calls for the Defense Department to shift 22,000 employees from around 
the national capitol region to Fort Belvoir over the next five years.

The work force expansion will be accompanied by an ambitious building 
campaign that includes a $300 million national museum for the Army and 
an expansion of Dewitt Army Community Hospital.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2044353.php

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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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