[CPEO-MEF] Fallon as Alternatve to Vieques

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bomb Training May Rise at Fallon

By Frank X. Mullen Jr.
Reno Gazette-Journal
July 7th, 2001


The Navy is sizing up Fallon Naval Air Station as an alternative combat
training area to partially replace a bombing range on a Puerto Rican
island if the military is ordered out as expected, Navy officials said Friday.

Fallon NAS, already the home of the Navy’s Top Gun and aircraft carrier
group training, could be part of a patchwork of bases from California to
North Carolina that would replace the Vieques training station on an
island near Puerto Rico. 

The Navy, under pressure from residents and lawmakers concerned about
health and environmental problems, might abandon Vieques by 2003.

But Nevada environmental groups oppose more bombing and strafing of
state land.

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for the entire story, see

http://www.rgj.com/cgi-bin/printstory.cgi?publish_date=20010707&story=994571920
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 222B View 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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