[CPEO-MEF] Camp Bowie (TX) Rights of Entry

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ordnance project official responds to landowners

By Gene Deason
Brownwood Bulletin (TX)
March 1, 2005

The manager of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project designed to clear
military ordnance left by Camp Bowie after it closed following World War
II has written letters to property owners addressing concerns they
voiced during a Feb. 3 meeting here.

Among those concerns were that the Texas National Guard is planning a
major expansion requiring acquisition of significant acreage in the
former Camp Bowie area which has been privately held for over a half century.

The letter written by Project Manager Dwayne Ford of the Corps' Fort
Worth office reiterated comments he made in response to questions
concerning the Formerly Used Defense Sites program.

He wrote that the program he oversees "cannot obtain property even if a
property owner wants to sell, lease or even give it to the government."
He added that the FUDS mission is to clean up residual contamination
from military activities on property once owned or leased by the
Department of Defense. Letters previously sent to property owners had
asked for access to the land to search for World War II era ordnance as
well as environmental problems caused by the base's activity.
...

For the entire article, see
http://www.brownwoodbulletin.com/articles/2005/03/01/news/news04.txt

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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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