[CPEO-MEF] REUSE - Willow Grove (PA) as a state-run homeland security hub

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Report: Naval base plan feasible
Rendell's proposal for Willow Grove would initially cost $20 million.

By Patrick Lester
Allentown Morning Call
March 4, 2008

Gov. Ed Rendell's plan to turn Willow Grove Naval Air Station into a 
state-run homeland security hub would cost $20 million to launch and $11 
million each year to operate, becoming financially self-sufficient six 
years after opening, according to a report released Monday.

The state-commissioned report says Rendell's plan to host offices of the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 
Firearms and Explosives and many other federal and state agencies on the 
1,100-acre Montgomery County base would be ''unmatched'' in the country.

The hub would open in 2011, after the Navy leaves the Horsham Township 
property as part of a Base Realignment and Closure plan.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-text4.6297557mar04,0,2438505.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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