[CPEO-IRF] Air Force Fuel Depot, Lynn Haven, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Fuel depot to be built in phases

By Ryan Burr
Panama City News Herald (FL)
September 30, 2007

LYNN HAVEN - The earliest Florida State University will be able to 
secure legislative funds for site development on the Air Force fuel 
depot site in Lynn Haven is 2009, an FSU-Panama City administrator said 
last week.

"We have to be owners of the property first," said Associate Dean Ken Shaw.

The Air Force in May dedicated 40 acres of the nearly 200-acre depot 
site for an FSU satellite campus, and Lynn Haven was part of that 
agreement. The deal, however, has not been finalized because the U.S. 
Senate has not approved the National Defense Authorization Act, which 
allows the transfer. The U.S. House has approved it.

Melanie Morris, a spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Allen Boyd, D-Monticello, 
who added the fuel depot agreement to the defense bill, said Wednesday 
the Senate "is debating amendments to the ... bill, with the hopes of 
considering the full bill soon. They intend to wrap up at the end of the 
week."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newsherald.com/headlines/article.display.php?a=3650

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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