[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Laughlin AFB (TX) task force

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Laughlin Task Force supports state legislation to protect military bases

By Bill Sontag
Del Rio Live (TX)
September 3, 2008


Less than a week from the sound of an opening gavel at a public hearing 
on Texas military base protection measures, members of the Laughlin Task 
Force unanimously approved statewide legislation, Wednesday (Sept. 3), 
designed to safeguard all such installations across the state.

In what task force members lauded as a remarkable show of unity among 
local governments, the business sector and Air Force representatives, 
two drafts of legislation to protect bases from outside encroachment 
will be tendered to Rep. Pete P. Gallego (D-District 74, Alpine) and 
Sen. Carlos Uresti (D-District 19, San Antonio).

The most sweeping in scope of the two drafts would enable all local 
governments across Texas to have municipal and county zoning authority 
around airports.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.swtexaslive.com/node/7463

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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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