[CPEO-IRF] Oceana Naval Air Station (VA) and the BRAC recommendation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Naval station's fate comes down to one sentence - all 238 words of it

By DALE EISMAN
The Virginian-Pilot
April 11, 2006


WASHINGTON — Eight months after a federal base-closing commission 
declared that "the future of naval aviation is not Naval Air Station 
Oceana," the fate of the Virginia Beach base likely hinges on how an 
obscure bureaucracy headed by a temporary appointee interprets a single 
sentence.

And what a sentence it is. The Defense Base Realignment and Closure 
Commission crammed its design for Oceana's future into a 238-word 
behemoth, covering more than 13 lines in its final report.

A second sentence, comparatively modest at 198 words, spells out how the 
Navy's principal East Coast jet base could be shifted to a former Navy 
facility in Florida if the commission's directives on Oceana aren’t 
satisfied.

...

For the entire article, see
http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/print.cfm?story=102833&ran=19843

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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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