[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Oceana Naval Air Station (VA) buffer funding

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy to put in $3.8 million to help Beach protect Oceana

By Deirdre Fernandes
The Virginian-Pilot
May 27, 2009

VIRGINIA BEACH

Local taxpayers have spent more than $8.1 million in the past two years 
to buy farmland near Oceana Naval Air Station to protect the base and 
keep the jets and the jobs they bring in Virginia Beach.

Now, the Navy will pitch in $3.8 million to help in those efforts, with 
a pledge of more money to come.

"We're very thankful for the Navy to be participating with us, and it's 
going to allow us to buy more," said Becky Kubin, a city attorney.

The Navy's share covers slightly less than half the city's cost of 
acquiring the 213 acres under the jet path between Oceana and Fentress 
Naval Auxiliary Landing Field in Chesapeake.

"It's a great partnership," said Kelley Stirling, Navy spokeswoman for 
Oceana. "The city and Navy are working together to prevent future 
encroachment."


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For the entire article, see
http://hamptonroads.com/2009/05/navy-put-38-million-help-beach-protect-oceana

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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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