[CPEO-IRF] Ft. Belvoir (VA) expansion reduced

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

[My view: Sanity partially prevails, for one. - LS]


Army-Va. Deal Cuts Jobs Headed For Belvoir
New Plan Eases Worries About Traffic in Fairfax

By Amy Gardner
Washington Post
July 27, 2007

The Army has agreed to dramatically scale back plans to move 22,000 jobs 
to Fort Belvoir in southeastern Fairfax County, averting a widely 
predicted traffic catastrophe and eliminating pressure on state and 
local officials to spend nearly $500 million in road and transit 
improvements.

Under an agreement with state officials, the Army would cap at about 
8,500 the number of jobs to be moved from the Pentagon, Crystal City and 
other locations in the Washington area to Belvoir's isolated Engineering 
Proving Ground. An additional 3,500 jobs are still scheduled to move to 
Fort Belvoir's main post.

The number of jobs headed for the proving ground was set at 18,500 in 
2005, when the Army and Congress orchestrated base closures and 
realignments to cut spending and comply with tighter security guidelines 
established after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/26/AR2007072601894.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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