[CPEO-MEF] SHARED USE: GM at Yuma Proving Ground (AZ)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New GM test facility at YPG opens

BY JOYCE LOBECK
YUMA SUN (AZ)
July 22, 2009

YUMA PROVING GROUND - Pulling up to the newly completed General Motors 
test complex for the grand opening Wednesday morning, it was clear this 
was Chevrolet country.

...

The GM Desert Proving was developed on 2,400 acres inside Yuma Proving 
Ground about 30 miles north of Yuma through an enhanced joint use lease 
agreement between the automaker and the Army. The new test facility 
replaces GM's 50-year-old complex in Mesa where urban encroachment had 
brought two-story homes to the very edge of the test courses.

Through the agreement, the automaker is assured protection from urban 
encroachment and gets to use YPG's dirt test courses; the military gets 
to use GM's courses to test its equipment and will be getting its own 
paved track paid for by GM (money that was deposited when the agreement 
was inked in 2006).

Construction on the new GM test complex, built at a cost of about $100 
million, began in late 2007. GM employees moved down from Mesa this 
spring and by May 18 the new test facility became operational just in 
time for the busy season for hot weather testing, said Frank West, site 
manager.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.yumasun.com/news/test-51631-facility-new.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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