[CPEO-MEF] REALIGNMENT: Ground broken at Ft. Meade (MD)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Ft. Meade Readies for Influx
Construction Begins on Buildings for 5,700 New Workers

By Raymond McCaffrey
Washington Post
April 17, 2008

Nearly three years after the Pentagon announced a base realignment plan 
that called for thousands of workers to come to Fort Meade, ground 
finally has been broken on a $369 million complex to accommodate new 
personnel.

The ceremony scheduled yesterday for the Defense Information Systems 
Agency headquarters marked a tangible step in the implementation of the 
Base Realignment and Closure plan. A similar ceremony took place last 
month at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Harford County on a campus to 
accommodate the anticipated influx of workers there.

"This is the first major construction getting underway at Fort Meade," 
said David Ruderman, a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers, 
Baltimore District.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/16/AR2008041601300.html

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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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