[CPEO-IRF] Galena Air Force Station (AK)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Galena seeks ways to offset looming base closure
ECONOMIC IMPACT: Town hopes to expand boarding school, develop businesses.

By STEFAN MILKOWSKI, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Anchorage Daily News (AK)
January 15, 2006

FAIRBANKS -- With hopes pinned on expanding its boarding school and 
moving other service centers, the city of Galena is looking for 
engineering help in its first steps toward economic stability without 
its Air Force base.

The Galena Air Force station was one of a number of bases slated for 
closure when Congress approved the recommendations of the Base 
Realignment and Closure Commission in November.

Dozens of residents in the town of 700, located on the Yukon River 200 
air miles west of Fairbanks, are dependent on the station for jobs. 
Galena's goal is to fill the gap left by the Air Force withdrawal by 
expanding the town's public boarding school and by encouraging business 
development.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/7361907p-7274043c.html

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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
http://www.cpeo.org
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