[CPEO-IRF] Inspector General's ruling on Oceana Naval Air Station

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE RELEASE   	 No. 472-06
May 24, 2006

DoD Office of Inspector General Issues BRAC Notification Regarding Naval 
Air Station Oceana

The Department of Defense (DoD) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has 
notified the President and Congress of its findings that the 
Commonwealth of Virginia and the municipal governments of Virginia 
Beach, Va. and Chesapeake, Va. have not met all the requirements of the 
2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) law 
regarding Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana.

The DoD OIG review was part of the BRAC-directed process to potentially 
re-align Navy East Coast Master Jet Base functions.  The 2005 BRAC law 
required the DoD OIG to certify to the President and Congress by June 1, 
2006, whether specified actions had been taken by commonwealth and 
municipal governments by the end of March 2006.

The 2005 BRAC law specified six actions required by the commonwealth of 
Virginia and municipal governments.  Among them was the enactment of 
"state and local legislation and ordinances to establish a program to 
condemn and purchase all the incompatible use property located within 
the Accident Potential Zone 1 for NAS Oceana," known as BRAC criterion 2.

In the report the DoD OIG found "the commonwealth of Virginia and the 
city of Virginia Beach took significant actions to address the 
criterion; however, the actions did not satisfy BRAC criterion 2."

...

For the entire press release, as well as a link to the Inspector 
General's report, see
http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2006/nr20060524-13108.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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