[CPEO-MEF] PRESERVATION: Moffett Field's (CA) Hangar One restoration undermined by Appropriations defeat

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DC Republicans kill Hangar One funding
Massive steel skeleton may be left bare in 2011

by Daniel Debolt
Mountain View Voice (CA)
December 17, 2010

Congress woman Anna Eshoo has declared dead an $8 million request for 
Hangar One, which means the icon's massive steel skeleton may be left 
bare when the Navy strips it of its PCB-laden siding this Spring.

The $8 million earmark was in an omnibus appropriations bill that Senate 
Republicans have promised to filibuster.

"When the Omnibus died, the $8 million I was proud to secure for Hangar 
One died with it," Eshoo said in an email Friday.

The defense appropriation, originally set at $10 million had passed 
through a congressional defense subcommittee and was eagerly awaited by 
the community, where elected officials have overwhelmingly supported 
Hangar One's restoration and a fight to save the historic structure has 
been going on for over five years.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=3733

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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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