[CPEO-IRF] Delay at Concord Naval Weapons Station (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Concord agrees to weapons station development delay

By Tanya Rose
CONTRA COSTA TIMES (CA)
December 12, 2006

CONCORD - Rep. George Miller, who weeks ago begged the U.S. Navy not to 
yank planning authority over the shuttered Concord Naval Weapons Station 
from local leaders, is now asking Concord to support a Navy-requested delay.

What's more, Mayor Mark Peterson announced at Tuesday's City Council 
meeting that the city has agreed, despite the fact that it will put off 
the city's planning efforts for one more month.

Miller, whose district includes the base, asked that the city support a 
30-day extension on the Navy's "surplusing" of the mothballed base -- or 
deeming it formally closed and available for development. That decision 
was supposed to happen Dec. 21, and now it will happen Jan. 22.

That date triggers the city's legal ability to move forward with its 
next planning and public outreach phases. Until it happens, Concord is 
in a sort of planning limbo, officials have said in the past.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/breaking_news/16226597.htm

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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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