[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: White Alice radar site, Nome, Alaska

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Nome's iconic Cold War radar towers may soon be history


Anchorage Daily News (AK)
July 12, 2010

The long-unused White Alice radar towers on Nome's Anvil Mountain -- 
visible from almost everywhere in the Western Alaska hub for more than 
50 years -- have become aviation navigation aids and even the site of 
weddings. The Air Force, which is in the process of cleaning up chemical 
contamination at the Cold War-era site, had planned to tear down the 
towers, which have asbestos backing, The Nome Nugget reports. But many 
in Nome want to see the towers remain, and they're trying to work out a 
compromise.

From The Nugget: Sitnasuak Native Corp., which has selected the land 
under Native claims and wants to take documented ownership, intends to 
decide the fate of the towers in two weeks. ... Before the land can 
transfer to Sitnasuak, it must pass through the federal Bureau of Land 
Management, the agency that sorts out claims in certain land disposals.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.adn.com/2010/07/12/1363488/nomes-iconic-radar-towers-may.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
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