[CPEO-MEF] Waiting for Davis-Monthan (AZ) flight-path buy-outs

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

D-M flight path landowners wait for buyouts

By Carol Ann Alaimo
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
November 6, 2006

Two years after state leaders set up a fund to buy land near military 
bases, nearly $15 million is in the bank and not a single check is in 
the mail.

Eight Tucson landowners, including a local church, were approved in 
April for $6 million worth of buyouts from the state Military 
Installation Fund. But so far, none of them have seen the money, and 
they aren't likely to until next year.

Meanwhile, Tucson City Hall also has come away empty-handed in the 
process. The city sought $300,000 from the military fund to study the 
feasibility of a noise-proofing program for homeowners near 
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.

"We realize there are some impatient people wondering what is going on," 
said Mike Klier, assistant deputy director of Arizona's Department of 
Veterans' Services, which now oversees the buyouts.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/154565

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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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