[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Oceana Naval Air Station (VA) buffer zone funding

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Va. Beach aims to get back funds to buffer Oceana

By Deirdre Fernandes
The Virginian-Pilot
March 13, 2011


VIRGINIA BEACH - City leaders have mobilized to persuade state  
lawmakers to restore $7.5 million in next year's state budget for a  
program to purchase property around Oceana Naval Air Station.

Mayor Will Sessoms and Adm. John C. Harvey Jr., head of the U.S.  
Fleet Forces Command, plan to meet with Senate Majority Leader  
Richard Saslaw, a Northern Virginia Democrat. City officials have  
asked U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, a Democrat, and U.S. Rep. Scott Rigell,  
a Republican, to call hesitant state lawmakers and stress the  
importance of the money.

In addition, the city's business leaders have sent letters to Gov.  
Bob McDonnell urging him to fund the program and encourage  
legislators to approve it when they return in April to consider any  
budget amendments the governor makes.



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For the entire article, see
http://hamptonroads.com/2011/03/va-beach-aims-get-back-funds-buffer- 
oceana

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