[CPEO-IRF] Brunswick (ME) LRA wants environmental info

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

BLRA frustrated over lack of base cleanup information

Seth Koenig
Brunswick Times Record (ME)
November 20, 2006

BRUNSWICK - Some members of the Brunswick Local Redevelopment Authority 
say they're frustrated that they're not being provided enough 
information about the environmental status of the Brunswick Naval Air 
Station to develop a master reuse plan.

Local Navy officials, though, say the LRA has all the information that 
the military has on the subject and that their base is being held to 
exceedingly high national cleanup standards that are accommodating for 
redevelopment - but that the redevelopment plan must also be reasonable 
considering the environmental landscape.

The LRA is charged with coming up with a plan to govern the 
redevelopment of the base once the Navy leaves in 2011. The Navy is 
currently pressing forward with a sweeping environmental evaluation and 
cleanup of the 3,200-acre air station, which has cost approximately $65 
million and will eat up at least another $20 million before all is said 
and done.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/2752B095F773517A0525722C0057CD8B?Opendocument

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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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