[CPEO-MEF] REALIGNMENT: Ft. Meade (MD) Roadways

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fort Meade BRAC moves bring uncertainty to surrounding communities

By Brian M. Rosenthal
Washington Post
August 13, 2011

When the federal government announced in 2005 that thousands of  
military personnel and defense contractors would be transferred to  
Fort Meade, local officials drafted a list of $1.1 billion in roadway  
improvements needed to accommodate the growth.

In 2009, the Department of Defense identified six of those projects,  
totaling $671 million, as "critical and immediate" needs because of  
Base Realignment and Closure restructuring.

But as the Sept. 15 deadline nears for the BRAC personnel moves, most  
of those projects have been delayed at least until 2020 because of a  
lack of funding. Federal and state governments have contributed just  
$46 million for improvements.

"I laugh about it because otherwise I would cry," said Bob Leib, Anne  
Arundel County's BRAC coordinator and co-chairman of a regional  
committee planning for the impact of Fort Meade's expansion. "There  
are absolutely no resources at the federal or state level of any  
magnitude that could approach solving this issue."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/commuting/fort-meade-brac-moves- 
bring-uncertainty-to-surrounding-communities/2011/08/08/ 
gIQAg331DJ_story.html

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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
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