[CPEO-MEF] USS Oriskany sent back to "ghost fleet"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Retired carrier Oriskany moving from Pensacola to Texas

The Associated Press
Sarasota Herald Tribune
May 3, 2005

PENSACOLA, Fla. The retired aircraft carrier USS Oriskany will be 
returned to Texas to ride out the hurricane season while environmental 
studies continue to determine if it can be safely sunk as an artificial 
reef off Pensacola, the Navy said Tuesday.

The 888-foot carrier, a combat veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars, 
would be the largest ship ever purposely sunk to serve as a reef, but 
the project has run into repeated environmental snags.

The ship will be moved later this month to a Navy Reserve Fleet facility 
at Beaumont, Texas, where it will remain at least until after this 
year's hurricane season, Navy officials said. It could remain there 
until after the 2006 season if there are additional delays in obtaining 
a permit from the Environmental Protection Agency.

Towing the ship to Beaumont for the hurricane season, which runs from 
June 1 through Nov. 30, is the best and least costly way to prevent 
possible storm damage to the vessel and Pensacola's port, Navy officials 
said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050503/APN/505031041

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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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