[CPEO-IRF] Ft. Monmouth (NJ) - "Jobs, not Land"

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Pallone, Holt to feds: Focus on jobs, not land
Two legislators ask feds to help create jobs, not more homes

BY SUE MORGAN
Red Bank Hub (NJ)
May 18, 2006

EATONTOWN - The Pentagon might be seeing dollar signs when it considers
selling off Fort Monmouth's land, but two area lawmakers are trying to
redirect that vision.

U.S. Congressmen Frank Pallone (D-6) and Rush Holt (D-12) are urging the
Defense Department to keep economics, not profit from land sales, in the
forefront, when turning the fort's 1,126 acres over to the local
jurisdictions.

In a letter dated May 11 to Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army Joseph
W. Whitaker, Pallone and Holt asked the Defense Department to make creating
new local jobs and promoting economic development a priority before the
government moves ahead with selling off the federally owned property. 

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For the entire article, see
http://hub.gmnews.com/news/2006/0518/Front_Page/015.html

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