[CPEO-IRF] Transportation requirement for Ft. Belvoir (VA) expansion

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

House Delays Army Plan to Move Jobs to Ft. Belvoir
Transportation Improvements Would Have to Be Done First

By Amy Gardner
Washington Post
May 18, 2007; B01

The House of Representatives approved a provision yesterday barring the 
Army from moving thousands of jobs to Fort Belvoir in southeastern 
Fairfax County until the necessary transportation improvements are in place.

If approved by the Senate, the provision could delay the Army's plans to 
move the jobs to Fort Belvoir by 2011. The measure was inserted into a 
defense spending bill; the Senate is scheduled to debate its version of 
the bill next month.

Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) introduced the amendment, which requires 
that hundreds of millions of dollars in road and transit improvements be 
made before the Army moves 9,000 jobs from Arlington County to Fort Belvoir.

The shift, part of a larger plan to transfer 22,000 military and 
civilian jobs to Fort Belvoir and the nearby Engineering Proving Ground, 
was the result of the federal base realignment and closure process. It 
is intended to save money and also help comply with guidelines for more 
secure military operations since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Fort 
Belvoir, set well back from Route 1, is better protected against truck 
bombs than the leased office space in Crystal City, where many of the 
jobs are now.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/17/AR2007051701521.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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