[CPEO-MEF] Mass. base considered for security center site

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Mass. base considered for security center site

By Associated Press, 10/22/2002

WASHINGTON - Congress has endorsed a $1 million study of the
Massachusetts Military Reservation on Cape Cod to determine whether it
should be the site of the nation's first regional homeland security
center.

The funding was approved as part of a larger defense spending bill for
the 2003 budget year, which began Oct. 1. The bill is awaiting President
Bush's signature.

The study would mark the first time Congress has ordered the Pentagon to
look into establishing a regional center for homeland defense training.

''This starts a new chapter in the history of the base,'' said
Representative William Delahunt, a Democrat who represents Cape Cod and
who proposed the study.

The base houses the Coast Guard, Army and Air National Guard and hosts
exercises by various local law enforcement and public safety
organizations.

The study would focus on the southern third of the 22,000-acre military
base. Camp Edwards, an Army National Guard training range and impact
area occupying the northern part, is under a US Environmental Protection
Agency clean-up order.

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