[CPEO-MEF] Military proposes test-range extension

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April 23, 2002
Military proposes test-range extension

By Janene Scully
Times Staff Writer

LOMPOC - Army missile defense officials will hold a meeting here 
Thursday to gather a laundry list of items to study in an environmental 
review of a proposed extended test range that encompasses a wide swath 
of the Pacific Ocean.

The scoping meeting begins at 6 p.m. Thursday in Lompoc City Council 
chambers, 100 Civic Center Plaza. 

This meeting, plus two in Alaska last week, comes as the Pentagon's 
Missile Defense Agency gets ready to prepare a draft environmental 
impact statement on an extended test range. The Army Space and Missile 
Defense Command, based in Alabama, is managing the preparation of the 
document.

The extended test range is a newly designated test bed that goes from 
the north Pacific - Kodiak Island, Alaska - and southwest to include 
Vandenberg Air Force Base, Hawaii and the Kwajalein Missile Range, 
according to Air Force Lt. Col. Rick Lehner, a Missile Defense Agency 
spokesman.

"It just allows us to do things we can't do now," Lehner said. 

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