[CPEO-MEF] Barrow (AK) buy-out

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air Force agrees to buy Barrow family's property
$462,500: Ted Stevens aids deal; PCBs contaminate 160-acre parcel.

By LIZ RUSKIN
Anchorage Daily News (AK)
October 19, 2005

WASHINGTON -- The Air Force has agreed to buy a tract of North Slope 
land from a prominent Barrow family for $462,500 -- far less than the 
$2.5 million Sen. Ted Stevens tried to get for the family in a defense 
appropriations bill last year.

The land, about 160 acres at Oliktok Point on the Beaufort Sea, belongs 
to Jacob Adams, president of the powerful Arctic Slope Regional Corp., 
and his siblings, Marie Carroll and Johnny Adams. They inherited it from 
their father.

A portion of it contains an Air Force dump that is contaminated with PCBs.

Carroll said last year that her family has long ties to that land. Her 
great-great-grandmother and other relatives are buried there, near where 
the Air Force later put a runway to serve a Distant Early Warning radar 
site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.adn.com/front/story/7105477p-7012472c.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
http://www.cpeo.org


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