[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Army unwilling to make free tramsfer of Umatilla Chemical Depot (OR)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army reversal echoes 2011 fight over depot


by Jade McDowell
East Oregonian
January 7, 2015

For those involved in planning the redevelopment of the Umatilla  
Chemical Depot land, Monday’s Columbia Development Authority meeting  
must have come with a sense of déjà vu.

For the second time in less than five years, they learned the Army  
wanted to reverse course on giving the property to the local reuse  
authority for economic development, threatening once again to cast  
aside more than two decades of work at the local level.

This time, the Pentagon said it didn’t think it could turn the land  
over at no cost to the Columbia Development Authority, which doesn’t  
have funds to purchase it.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.eastoregonian.com/eo/local-news/20150107/army-reversal- 
echoes-2011-fight-over-depot

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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