[CPEO-MEF] Cornhuster ammo plant land transfer

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army seeks quick sale of CAAP land

By Tracy Overstreet
Grand Island Independent (NE)
November 11, 2004

The Army wants to get rid of all the remaining government-owned land at 
the Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant in 2005 -- even if it means not 
fully cleaning the property right away.

CAAP project manager Joe Laird, from the Army Corps of Engineers Omaha 
office, said he has been directed to accelerate the sale of property and 
that can only be done if contaminated areas of land are cleaned to a 
level of one foot below ground instead of the four-foot level currently 
called for.

The Army's current "fully clean, fully deeded, fully transferred" land 
policy would require work through 2014 to accomplish before all 20 
square miles of the plant are back in private ownership.

"We want to see it disposed of in 2005," Laird said.

The accelerated sale change, which raised concerns from city and county 
officials, also raised the ire of the Environmental Protection Agency.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/111104/new_caap11.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
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