[CPEO-IRF] Ft. Belvoir (VA) realignment Draft EIS

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army Releases BRAC Report
Two wild cards include money for transportation, GSA warehouses

By Chuck Hagee
Springfield Connection (VA)
March 8, 2007

Now it's official. Of the 23,324 personnel being realigned to Fort 
Belvoir, 18,000 will be situated at the Engineering Proving Grounds. 
That was the conclusion of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement 
released Friday, March 2, by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobil 
District.

In total, Fort Belvoir will realize an increase of 22,000 personnel 
after several commands now stationed there are realigned to other 
locations nationwide as a result of the 2005 Base Realignment and 
Closure Report (BRAC). The largest command to leave will be the U.S. 
Army Materiel Command Headquarters which was relocated to Fort Belvoir 
from Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria following the 9/11 attacks.

Although the draft EIS looks at all aspects of the relocation — air 
quality, socioeconomic factors, water resources, utilities, and even 
aesthetic resources — the 800-pound gorilla between the pages remains, 
as with anything in Northern Virginia, transportation and roads. Under 
the Army's "Preferred Alternative" for BRAC, new "transportation 
improvements" would total an estimated $458 million.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=78540&paper=72&cat=104

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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>
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