[CPEO-IRF] More about Orion Park-Moffett (CA) project

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Big plans for Orion Park
Army to build 'important facility' there, but watchdogs worry about 
traffic, other issues

by Daniel DeBolt
Mountain View Voice (CA)
September 7, 2007

At Moffett Field's 72-acre Orion Park, a "revamping of the Army" is set 
to begin no later than 2011.

The military's plans, which would occupy 30 acres of the site, are 
ambitious: A new 270,000-square-foot training center will house 413 
full-time employees and up to 735 reservists every weekend. It will also 
serve as a command post for the region.

"It will become a very important facility," said Army spokesman Don Sundius.

The center will be one of only three in the U.S. where a self-contained, 
240-bed facility can be airlifted to regional disaster sites. Of the 
reservists there, "92 percent will be medical people" who will "keep 
their skills sharp in case of national emergency," Sundius said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mv-voice.com/story.php?story_id=3316

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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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