[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Federal City at Naval Support Activity Algiers (LOA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Congress gives Navy OK to turn over property at Naval Support Activity 
Algiers

Paul Purpura
New Orleans Times-Picayune (LA)
January 25, 2011

The Navy has permission from Congress to give to the Algiers Development 
District board 156 acres at the Naval Support Activity, which will be 
converted to mixed-use development under the federal city plan.

The provision was included in the 2011 Defense Authorization Act, a $725 
billion measure Congress approved last year which President Barack Obama 
signed into law Jan. 7. About $147 million is included for 
defense-related construction and land acquisition projects in Louisiana, 
including $16.3 million for a new air traffic control tower at the Naval 
Air Station-Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse.

While the secretary of the Navy has the authority to give the land to 
the Algiers board, the transfer isn't expected to happen soon, officials 
said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/01/congress_gives_navy_ok_to_turn.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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