[CPEO-IRF] Air Force tank farm and the Hannahville Indians (MI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup costs a big hurdle

By Mary Feldhusen
Escanaba Daily Press (MI)
January 8, 2007

WELLS TOWNSHIP - The Hannahville Indian Community unveiled plans in 
August 2005 for commercial development in Wells Township. Approximately 
37 acres of land earmarked for the housing and recreational project is 
property owned by the Air Force. The land was used by the Air Force as a 
former Defense Fuel Supply Point. Huge tanks located there were used for 
storage of jet fuel that was pumped to K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base in the 
Gwinn area.

When the base closed in 1995, the Air Force was charged with liquidating 
all related land and holdings, said Ann Jousma-Miller, Delta County’s 
Economic Development Alliance (DCEDA) director.

At one time, the Air Force was planning to transfer the "tank farm" to 
the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), and ultimately the 
Hannahville Indian Community, Dave Anthony, Hannahville’s director of 
community development and government affairs said. Reservation property 
is held in trust by the Bureau of Indian Affairs within the DOI.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailypress.net/stories/articles.asp?articleID=7050
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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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