[CPEO-IRF] Fort Monmouth (NJ) redevelopment authority

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Fort authority buys some time

Editorial
Asbury Park Press (NJ)
December 1, 2007

The Army has granted the Fort Monmouth redevelopment authority a 
nine-month deadline extension for filing its plan for reuse of the fort. 
We hope it ends up being a moot point. It will be if Congress fully 
digests its investigative arm's reports and moves to reverse the Defense 
Department's decision to close the fort as part of the Base Realignment 
and Closure process.

The Government Accountability Office has issued five reports on portions 
of the 2005 BRAC process, which was designed to make the military more 
efficient and save money. All concluded that the Pentagon underestimated 
costs and overestimated savings. A sixth GAO report, focusing on Fort 
Monmouth, is expected to be released Dec. 12.

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For the entire editorial, see
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071201/OPINION/712010352/1029

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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>
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