[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Concord (CA) vs. Navy

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Concord takes on the Navy

By Lisa Vorderbrueggen
Contra Costa Times
July 18, 2008

Concord and the Navy are playing a serious game of political chicken 
over the 5,000-acre Concord Naval Weapons Station.

The Navy is insisting the city meet a Sept. 20 deadline to select a 
development plan and craft a deal for the provision of facilities for 
the homeless or it will strip Concord of its federal status as the lead 
planning agency for the mothballed base.

The feds say they have a schedule to keep.

They must comply with federal environmental laws before cleaning up the 
base and selling the land, and they say they can't start the analysis 
until the city finishes the job it promised to do in the time frame it 
promised to do it.

"We want to get this property off our books," said Department of Defense 
Deputy Undersecretary Wayne Arny. "It's costing us money to maintain it, 
money we could be using to buy airplanes and personnel."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.contracostatimes.com/columns/ci_9928728

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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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