[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Luke Air Force Base (AZ)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Air Force nears end of Luke easement

by Charles Kelly
The Arizona Republic
April 3, 2008

The Air Force is close to concluding a successful four-year effort to 
buy easements near the runway of Luke Air Force Base to protect the base 
from residential encroachment, an Air Force spokesman says.

The Air Force, working with the Army Corps of Engineers, has acquired 
nearly all the easements necessary to protect the most critical areas 
near the northern and southern ends of the Luke runway, said Michael 
Briggs, a spokesman for the Air Education and Training Command at 
Randolph Air Force Base, Texas.

Keeping homes from being built on the land means Luke will be able to 
carry out its flight missions and that homeowners won't be placed in 
harm's way, he said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/04/03/20080403gl-luke0403-ON.html

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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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