[CPEO-MEF] EXPANSION, OVERFLIGHTS: Powder River Training Complex

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Decision near on bomber training area expansion

By MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press
Billings Gazette (MT)
July 20, 2014

Air Force officials are expected to decide as soon as next month  
whether to go forward with an expansion of a bomber training area  
over the Northern Plains that would encompass an area larger than  
West Virginia.

Known as the Powder River Training Complex, the area includes  
portions of Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas. It would be used by B-1  
bombers based at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota and B-52  
bombers at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota.

Air Force officials say the expansion of the training airspace to  
about 28,000 square miles is needed to keep its force ready for  
combat. It also would save the military $23 million a year, by  
reducing the number of sorties now being sent to Utah and Nevada for  
exercises, officials said.

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For the entire article, see
http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/decision-near-on-bomber- 
training-area-expansion/article_ded518fe- 
d2ed-5feb-9ef6-9ecaa3196147.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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