[CPEO-IRF] Ingleside (TX) reuse board

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Base reuse board not OK'd

Infighting could delay Naval Station Ingleside redevelopment monies

By Beth Wilson
Corpus Christi Caller-Times (TX)
February 13, 2007


More than a year after its formation, a committee dedicated to planning 
the reuse of Naval Station Ingleside is not recognized by the federal 
government, which delays the area's eligibility for federal funding.

The Department of Defense's Office of Economic Adjustment has not 
approved the Coastal Bend Redevelopment Planning Committee, formed in 
January 2006. Disagreement among neighboring jurisdictions about who 
should sit on the nine-member committee has made it one of the last of 
about 120 communities nationwide to be recognized, said Richard Tenga, a 
Defense Department project manager.

Redevelopment authorities serve as a funnel for federal funds and only 
one per area is recognized by the federal government to plan the reuse 
of military bases slated for closure. Ingleside was recommended for 
closure in 2005 and complete closure will take place by 2010.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.caller.com/ccct/local_news/article/0,1641,CCCT_811_5348523,00.html
See also
http://www.caller.com/ccct/local_news/article/0,1641,CCCT_811_5346447,00.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
http://www.cpeo.org
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