[CPEO-MEF] REALIGNMENT: Possible delay for Mark Center project (VA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

House Passes Bill To Delay BRAC Move
Bill still to be approved by Senate

By TOM FITZGERALD
Fox 5 TV News (DC)
May 26, 2011

WASHINGTON - On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed a bill  
to delay the opening of the Defense Department’s massive Mark Center  
office building.

Critics warned if it opened as planned in September, a traffic jam  
nightmare would have turned I-395 into a parking lot.

What is remarkable about this is that for the first time in the 20- 
year history of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission,  
the Pentagon is being given the power to delay a BRAC decision and in  
the process, delay some concerns about a possible traffic nightmare.

Virginia Congressman Jim Moran has been trying to hit the breaks on  
this enormous Mark Center project that he warns will trigger a  
traffic nightmare.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/virginia/house-passes-bill-to-delay- 
brac-move-052611

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