[CPEO-MEF] SHIPS: Suisun Bay (CA) "Mothball Fleet continues to dwindle"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Mothball Fleet continues to dwindle as two more ships leave

By Donna Beth Weilenman
Martinez News-Gazette (CA)
May 24, 2011

Two more ships - the Clamp and the Bolster - were pulled free from  
the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet on Monday, Cheron Victoria Wicker,  
director of the Office of Congressional and Public Affairs of the  
U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration said.

The pair are Diver class auxiliary salvage and rescue ships built for  
the U.S. Navy toward the end of World War II, she said. They are the  
22nd and 23rd ships to leave the bay since Department of  
Transportation officials announced Oct. 22, 2009, that the Obama  
administration wanted 57 obsolete ships removed from the site.

In the settlement of a three-year lawsuit filed by several  
environmental agencies, MARAD promised that 28 ships - those in the  
worst shape - would be gone by Sept. 30, 2012. The rest of the  
surplus vessels would leave by Sept. 30, 2017, according to the  
settlement.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.martinezgazette.com/news/story/i2640/2011/05/24/mothball- 
fleet-continues-dwindle-two-more-ships-leave

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