[CPEO-MEF] Robins Air Force Base and air pollution

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air quality could blow away any BRAC gains for Robins

By S. Heather Duncan 
Macon Telegraph (GA)
November 19, 2004

A Robins Air Force Base advocacy group presented a report to local
government officials Thursday detailing how Middle Georgia's air
pollution levels could created "serious long-term impacts" for the base.

Ron Carbon, director of the 21st Century Partnership, warned the Middle
Georgia Clean Air Coalition and the Middle Georgia Regional Development
Authority Board that the base could lose any new missions announced
during BRAC 2005 if Bibb County fails to attain - and maintain - air
quality standards for ozone.

BRAC is a federal process for identifying military installations for
closing or workload changes.

Houston County leaders breathed a sigh of relief this year when Houston
escaped being placed in a "nonattainment zone" with Bibb County and part
of Monroe County. But the ax could still fall: To reduce ozone levels,
state environmental regulators can adopt strict air rules in counties
outside nonattainment zones.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.macon.com/mld/telegraph/10219097.htm

[Thanks to ICMA's Military List for this article.]

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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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