[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, COMMUNITY: Brunswick Naval Air Station (ME) oversight

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Base cleanup worries watchdog

Navy and MRRA affirm commitment to oversight after grant funds expire

By Rachel Ganong
Brunswick Times Record (ME)
March 26, 2009

BRUNSWICK - Citizens involved with environmental oversight at Brunswick 
Naval Air Station are questioning who will monitor cleanup after the 
base closes in 2011.

The job now falls, in part, to a citizen watchdog group that's about to 
lose its funding. However, both Navy and civilian redevelopment 
officials affirm that work will continue to ensure that environmental 
contaminants accumulated over six decades of Navy use won't pose a 
public threat or deter base reuse efforts.

With Capt. William Fitzgerald, the base's commanding officer, Suzanne 
Johnson co-chairs the Brunswick Naval Air Station's Restoration Advisory 
Board. Johnson also serves as a member of the base environmental 
watchdog group called Brunswick Area Citizens for a Safe Environment.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/5FBB5F88AA87F43F85257585005C97C3?Opendocument

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org




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