Re: [CPEO-MEF] RAB Question - Distant RAB Members

[wjasmith@aol.com]

Regarding the following question about distant RAB members posted 
anonymously,

Can a few people respond with examples of sites where one or more RAB
members are not located directly in or adjacent to the site in
question?  Supporting info (such as 25 miles away) would be helpful.

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Saul Bloom and ARC Ecology in San Francisco serve on many RABs more than 25 
miles from ARC staffs place of residence or ARC's offices.  

The Citizen Advisory Boards for DOE sites, such as the Hanford Advisory Board 
in Eastern Washington State, has members from Oregon and I believe Idaho and 
more distant states as well.  

RABS and the DOD should welcome citizens with interest no matter where they 
live - after all DOD facilities are Federal facilities - not local 
facilities.  Often the most vocal, or worse, secretive, opposition to distant 
members comes from local governments who jealously guard local control.  
However, local governments are often anxious to put developers on RABS who 
are not local residents - this has happened in practice, if not officially, 
at the Alameda Naval Air Station.

For more, suggest you contact either Dale Smith, who sits on the Alameda 
Naval Air Station RAB for the Sierra Club, or Lea who sits on the same RAB, 
and others, for ARC Ecology.  You can reach Lea at Lea 415-495-1786.

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