[CPEO-MEF] EXPANSION: Twentynine Palms (CA) wants "to take over Amboy Road"

[lsiegel at cpeo.org (Lenny Siegel)]

January 25, 2009 10:07 PM CST

Marines want to take over Amboy Road

By JIM MANIACI/News West
Mohave Daily News (CA)

LAUGHLIN - The U.S. Marine Corps wants to expand its Twentynine Palms, 
Calif., air-ground combat training base to the east, taking over Amboy 
Road, which Southern California drivers use to reach the Colorado River 
cities.

The Laughlin Chamber of Commerce recently found about the military's 
expansion effort for its live-fire training and is concerned that 
eventually the key artery from the Palm Springs to Laughlin will be 
closed permanently.

Friday is the deadline to submit concerns, which would be addressed in 
the environmental impact statement of the withdrawal of territory owned 
mostly by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the state of California.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.mohavedailynews.com/articles/2009/01/26/news/local/local5.txt

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Lenny Siegel
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