[CPEO-IRF] Navy says no to the Air Force at Willow Grove (PA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy denies land transfer at Willow Grove

By KIMBERLY HEFLING
The Associated Press/PennLive
April 25, 2007	 	

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy appears to have thrown up a roadblock to a 
plan that would have allowed a suburban Philadelphia military base 
slated for closure by the federal government to be eventually 
transferred to state ownership.

Under a plan proposed by Pennsylvania, the Navy was to transfer the 
Willow Grove Naval Air Station land to the Air Force, which in turn 
would lease it to the state. The base, currently home to Air Force and 
Navy reserve units, would then have been transferred to state ownership.

But the Navy said Tuesday that regulations do not allow it to transfer 
the land, according to a memo obtained Wednesday by The Associated 
Press. The memo was written by B.J. Penn, the assistant secretary of the 
Navy.

"Your application is not legally supportable by existing property 
disposal and base closure regulations and is therefore denied," the memo 
said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-49/1177530284319820.xml&storylist=penn

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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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