[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Letterkenny Army Depot (PA) land transfer

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Letterkenny Army Depot land transfer taking much longer than first planned

By JIM HOOK
Chambersburg Public Opinion (PA)
November 6, 2009

The founders of an organization to oversee the reuse of Army land by the 
Chambersburg community didn't look beyond a decade.

Transferring 1,500 acres from Letterkenny Army Depot to a 
community-operated business park and recreation park wasn't supposed to 
take too long. It's been more than 13 years.

The Base Realignment and Closure Commission gave the order to the Army 
in 1995, but a complex environmental cleanup has been slow. Less than 
half the land has changed hands. Under BRAC rules, the military can't 
transfer real estate until efforts to clean it are started.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.publicopiniononline.com/localnews/ci_13726264

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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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