[CPEO-MEF] REALIGNMENT: Middletown (CT) Army Reserve training facility

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Appeal vs. Army carries legal threat

By SLOAN BREWSTER
Middletown Press
October 20, 2008

MIDDLETOWN - Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has set in motion a 
fight against the U.S. Judge Advocate General's refusal to release a 
legal opinion saying where an Army facility must be built.

The question about how specific the Base Realignment and Closure Act of 
2005 is on whether the facility should be in Middletown or nearby has 
been on the minds of local and state politicians as well as regular 
folks for months. Over and over again in public meetings and letters to 
Army officials, the question of how the language should be translated 
has been asked.

The law states that the facility should be built in Middletown "if a 
suitable location" can be found.

Blumenthal, Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz, U.S. Rep. Rosa 
DeLauro, D-3rd District, and others have suggested the "if" in the 
wording makes it plausible that the facility could be put elsewhere.

Repeatedly they have requested a copy of the legal opinion that the Army 
has said indicates the facility must be built in Middletown.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.middletownpress.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20171393&BRD=1645&PAG=461&dept_id=665530&rfi=6

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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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