[CPEO-IRF] Chanute Air Force Base (IL) transfer

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Air Force turns over property to Rantoul

By Anne Cook
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette (IL)
August 17, 2007

RANTOUL – The Air Force on Thursday turned over 500 acres of airport 
runways, 111 acres of aprons and taxiways and 170 acres of roads to the 
village of Rantoul.

"It's been a year coming," said Paul Carroll, an environmental 
coordinator for the Air Force who convened the quarterly Restoration 
Advisory Board meeting at the former Chanute Air Force Base Thursday. 
"It's a big day for the Air Force."

David Johnston, village administrator, said the village has big plans 
for the property, part of about 1,400 acres of land it leased from the 
Air Force after the base closed and the Air Force sold 706 acres to 
private buyers.

"The airport is an economic engine for the village, and we plan to 
expand as part of an intermodal facility, to be a cargo airport," 
Johnston said. "We don't feel this area needs to have another people 
airport."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2007/08/17/big_day_for_the_air_force

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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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