[CPEO-IRF] Ft. Monroe (VA) cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

BRAC pushing Army to speed cleanup of fort
The military and state are "working together" on their plans.

By MATTHEW STURDEVANT
Daily Press (VA)
January 6, 2008

HAMPTON - The Army had plans to finish an environmental cleanup at Fort 
Monroe by 2017, with long-term monitoring through 2047.

Those plans changed in 2005, when Congress passed the Base Closure and 
Realignment Act, or BRAC, which called for closing 25 major military 
bases, including Fort Monroe by September 2011. The cleanup is now on a 
faster schedule, but it's not clear if all the work will be done by the 
time the post is scheduled to close.

Fort Monroe is laden with old ammunition and artillery shells, some of 
which date to the 1800s.

If the cleanup isn't finished on time, it won't necessarily delay the 
former post from being reused or redeveloped. But there are a number of 
unanswered questions about what has to be cleaned up and when.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/hampton/dp-news_monroeside_0106jan06,0,2360754.story

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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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