[CPEO-MEF] Longhorn Ammo Plant (TX)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army: Permit process on hold for ammunition plant acreage

COX EAST TEXAS
Longview News-Journal
September 21, 2005

KARNACK – The permit process by which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 
can manage the remaining acreage available at the Longhorn Army 
Ammunition Plant as a part of the existing National Wildlife Refuge is 
on hold until Congressional inquiries are resolved, a U.S. Army 
spokeswoman said at a meeting here Tuesday.

"When a senator expresses interest, it kind of stops things from rolling 
along," Rose Zeiler told the Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant Restoration 
Advisory Board and community residents.

"This is a political thing, this is not Army process," she said.

The senator is Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Zeiler said, later adding that she 
believes government officials are attempting to ascertain the remaining 
property's condition.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.news-journal.com/news/content/news/stories/2005/09/21/20050921LNJkarnack.html
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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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