[CPEO-MEF] EXPANSION: Twenty-Nine Palms Marine Center (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Base taking closer look at Johnson Valley property

By Jimmy Biggerstaff
Hi-Desert Star (CA)
August 21, 2008

MCAGCC - The Department of the Navy has submitted an application to the 
Bureau of Land Management to withdraw from public use 421,270 acres of 
land that border Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, 
including land in the Johnson Valley area.

The Marine Corps announced in May last year that the Secretary of 
Defense authorized a study that could lead to land acquisition near the 
base.

The public acreage in the study area borders the base on its eastern, 
southern and western areas.

Base officials say the withdrawal request gives the Marine Corps the 
opportunity to carefully study these areas as alternatives for meeting 
training requirements.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.hidesertstar.com/articles/2008/08/20/news/news2.txt

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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