[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, CHEMWEAPONS: Umatilla Chemical Depot (OR) draft reuse plan

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Public input sought on Umatilla Depot plan

BY ANNETTE CARY, TRI-CITY HERALD
Tacoma News-Tribune
April 5, 2010

HERMISTON -- Dividing up the Umatilla Chemical Depot into areas for open 
space plus industrial, commercial and military use as envisioned by the 
Local Reuse Authority is the preferred plan in a new draft study open 
for public comment.

As the last of the Army chemical weapons stored at the depot are being 
incinerated, plans are being made by the Umatilla Army Depot Reuse 
Authority for the future of the depot's 20,000 acres. All the chemical 
agent could be incinerated by spring 2012. About 1,100 people are 
employed at the depot.

...

Under the preferred alternative in the Draft Land Reuse Alternatives 
Report, the National Guard would use the northern portion of the depot. 
Land in the central, south-central and northeastern portions of the 
depot would be managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to preserve 
shrub steppe habitat.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/04/05/1135695/public-input-sought-on-umatilla.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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