[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Bowdoin College at Brunswick Naval Air Station

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

College one step closer to land grab


By Emily Guerin
Bowdoin Orient (ME)
April 4, 2008

The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has approved Bowdoin's 
application to acquire 175 developable acres of land at no cost from the 
Brunswick Naval Air Station (NASB) when the base closes in 2011. With 
formal support from both town officials and the DOE, the College now 
awaits final approval from the U.S. Navy, a process that could take 
three to four years.

Naval approval and subsequent conveyance of the land is contingent on a 
variety of environmental surveys of the land parcel. The Navy must first 
complete an environmental remediation of the area, where it will search 
for and clean up any contamination.

Katy Longley, Bowdoin's senior vice president for finance and 
administration and treasurer, said she does not think much contamination 
will be found, since the land was not heavily used by the military.

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For the entire article, see
http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-04-04&section=1&id=1

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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