[CPEO-MEF] Ft. Rucker (AL) encroachment study

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Study will focus on encroachment around Fort Rucker

By Lance Griffin
Dothan Eagle (AL)
Augsut 15, 3007

As the Wiregrass continues to grow, community leaders hope Fort Rucker’s 
military mission grows as well. Now, those leaders are teaming up to 
make sure one growth doesn't harm the other.

Representatives from Fort Rucker, the Pentagon and as many as 10 local 
governments will participate in a study designed to make sure Fort 
Rocker's military mission doesn't suffer due to the issue of 
encroachment, a process by which a military base is progressively hemmed 
in by urban growth, competition for air space and other factors.

The Department of Defense felt strongly enough about the issue that it 
listed encroachment as one of the issues used to determine closure 
and/or realignment in the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure process.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dothaneagle.com/gulfcoasteast/dea/local_news.apx.-content-articles-DEA-2007-08-15-0024.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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