2004 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 24 Jul 2004 20:52:22 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: "Early" Transfer in Charleston, SC
 
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Area officials urge state to seek navy land 
Request for deed of final 500 acres hinges on Sanford, state agencies 

BY TERRY JOYCE 
Charleston Post and Courier (SC) 
July 24, 2004

Top officials with the city of North Charleston, the State Ports
Authority and the agency in charge of reuse at the former Charleston
Naval Base have finally agreed -- the state should take possession of
the last 500 acres of the base, even though they and the Navy haven't
decided how clean it should be.

"I was the last to sign," North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey said,
describing a letter mailed Friday to Gov. Mark Sanford.

The letter includes signatures from Jim Bryan, head of the Charleston
Naval Complex Redevelopment Authority, and Bernard Groseclose, president
and CEO of the SPA. It asks Sanford to formally request a deed from the
Navy on land that includes the former Charleston Naval Shipyard and a
110-acre tract that once served as a landfill.

The decision is a major step, but not the last, toward transfer of
ownership on the last tracts at the century-old base. The state's Budget
and Control Board, the Department of Health and Environmental Control
and Sanford must agree to the transfer before deeds change hands.

Transfer of land from the Navy began more than three years ago, although
efforts to clean up the base actually predated the Pentagon's decision
to close it. A plan published in February 1993 identified 36 sites at
the base that needed testing and possible cleanup. Sites included the
shipyard and the 110-acre landfill. 

...

for the entire article,
http://www.charleston.net/stories/072404/loc_24navyland.shtml

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 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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