[CPEO-IRF] Commission to continue?

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Base-Closing Commission Seeking to Stay in Business

By LIZ SIDOTI
Associated Press Writer
WAVY TV-10 News (Portsmouth, VA)
January 27, 2006

(AP) - The commission that recently helped decide which U.S. military 
bases to shutter wants another year of life - and $1.2 million in 
taxpayers' money - to study a plan that may streamline the process of 
closing those facilities.

The nine-member Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (also 
known as BRAC) is supposed to go out of business in April. But according 
to documents obtained by The Associated Press, it is proposing to spend 
an extra year investigating whether Congress should create a new public 
body that would oversee the closings.

Under current law, the Pentagon is in charge of shutting bases, a task 
it has performed in the four previous reorganizations of the military's 
domestic base network. The commission would examine whether a new public 
corporation and a foundation should take over the job.

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For the entire story, see
http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=4418949&nav=23ii
--
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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