[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: NNSA's Kansas City Plant (MO)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Kansas City Council approves plans for nuclear weapons parts plant

by Rob Roberts
Kansas City Business Journal
October 17, 2008

The Kansas City Council voted 11-1 Thursday to approve a development 
plan and blight declaration for the 186-acre site of a new $500 million 
nuclear weapons parts plant proposed in south Kansas City.

The proposal calls for the General Services Administration, landlord for 
the federal government, to select a private developer in January to 
build a 1.5 million-square-foot plant for the assembly of non-nuclear 
components of nuclear weapons on vacant ground at Missouri Highway 150 
and Botts Road. The project would replace an aging 3.1 
million-square-foot plant that Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & 
Technologies operates for the National Nuclear Security Administration 
at the Bannister Federal Complex.

...

Since 1991, the NNSA has spent $65.8 million on environmental 
remediation at the Kansas City NNSA plant, and the government expects to 
spend an additional $52 million preparing the entire 5.2 
million-square-foot Bannister complex for reuse or sale.

Chris Paine of the New York-based Natural Resources Defense Council, the 
lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, said Scott's Byzantine plan for replacing 
the current NNSA plant amounts to "an elaborate, under-the-radar form of 
congressional earmark."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2008/10/13/daily38.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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