Joint use at Port Hueneme

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Harbor Lobbies Navy for Land Use

Officials say the military and Port of Hueneme would profit from
establishing commercial operations on part of the Seabee base.

By Gregory W. Griggs
Los Angeles Times 
August 21, 2004

Hoping to use more Navy-owned land to expand operations at the Port of
Hueneme, port officials have taken their case directly to Washington.

Without fanfare, officials visited the nation's capital several times
this year to try to persuade top Navy officials that expanded joint use
of dockside facilities at Navy Base Ventura County could be a mutually
lucrative business arrangement.

Port officials argued that establishing commercial operations on 670 of
the 1,600 acres the Seabees oversee at the base could reduce Defense
Department expenses, bring millions of dollars in new revenue and save
Navy and civilian jobs while significantly boosting all local
port-related employment by 2030.

"We think it would be a plus for the community, for the Navy and a plus
for the harbor district," said William J. Buenger, executive director of
the Oxnard Harbor District, which operates the port.

In a pair of color brochures, officials outline plans for taking back
land the federal government seized from the port in 1942. Under the
proposal, the harbor district and its private-sector tenants would pay
to modernize the World War II-era facilities, replacing aging buildings
and installing rail lines and new cargo-moving equipment.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/state/la-me-navyport21aug21,1,6185963.story?coll=la-news-state


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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>
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