[CPEO-IRF] Fort McClellan (AL) funding

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army agrees to spend $182M to finish Fort McClellan cleanup

By BEN EVANS
The Associated Press	
September 6, 2007 	

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon has agreed to spend almost $182 million 
to finish cleaning up environmental waste and weapons remnants at the 
former Fort McClellan installation in Anniston, Ala., clearing the way 
for more private development at the shuttered Army post.

Local officials have been working to lure houses, stores and businesses 
to the site since the installation closed in 1999 through the Base 
Realignment and Closure Commission. With a military community of some 
10,000 people, the post had been a major economic driver in the area.

Leftover explosives and munitions from the post's days as a weapons 
training center - as well as soil and water contamination - have been 
major impediments.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-31/1189097646110260.xml&storylist=alabamanews

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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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