[CPEO-MEF] Dugway expansion

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Dugway seeks to obtain more land

Base officials are not saying how much expansion - or why

By Joe Bauman
Deseret Morning News (UT)
October 28, 2004

Dugway Proving Ground, one of America's largest military bases, has been 
thinking about growing even larger.

It's unclear whether the project is the revival of a 1988 Dugway effort 
to obtain a swath of public land 23 miles wide by 3 miles long, where 
chemical and conventional weapons contamination occurred. But what is 
certain is that two other projects besides the expansion show the 
military wants stronger action to protect the public from leftover ordnance.

Officials of Dugway - the bigger-than-Rhode Island base sprawling across 
much of Utah's western desert - aren't saying how much they would like 
it to expand or even why.

"Dugway has requested permission to study the possibility of increasing 
the size of Dugway's training and testing ranges," says a base statement 
prepared in response to a Deseret Morning News question. Dugway 
officials made the request to their parent organization, the Army 
Developmental and Test Command, headquartered at Aberdeen Proving 
Ground, Md.

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for the entire article, go to
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595101375,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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