[CPEO-IRF] Admiral please with Oceana (VA) effort

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Beach effort to keep Oceana encourages Navy’s leader

By DALE EISMAN
The Virginian-Pilot
January 11, 2006


WASHINGTON — The Navy's top admiral said Tuesday that he's pleased with 
Virginia Beach’s beefed-up effort to control development around Oceana 
Naval Air Station and is sticking with a recommendation that Oceana 
remain the service’s East Coast master jet base.

But Adm. Mike Mullen, the chief of naval operations, cautioned that it's 
not up to him to determine if the city and state have met conditions for 
Oceana’s long-term survival laid down last summer by a federal 
base-closing commission. "I'm encouraged about what I see and hear and 
read about what Virginia Beach is doing," Mullen told reporters.

But the Pentagon's inspector general - not him - must decide whether the 
local effort meets requirements set by the Defense Base Realignment and 
Closure Commission, Mullen added.

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For the entire article, see
http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=97949&ran=239496

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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