[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Patuxent River (MD) program tops 11, 000 acres

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pax River, ATR REPI Program tops 10K acres

By Lindsay Vargesko 
NAVAIR Ranges Sustainability Office
November 7, 2019
 
Naval Air Station Patuxent River and Atlantic Test Ranges (ATR) have achieved a major milestone in Fiscal Year (FY) 2019, protecting 11,144 acres since 2010 through the Department of Defense Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration (REPI) Program.

The REPI Program is a key tool for combating encroachment that can limit or restrict military training, testing, and operations. It supports cost-sharing agreements between military services, private conservation organizations, and state and local governments in order to secure land interests, such as easements, from willing landowners near military installations and ranges. REPI easements allow landowners to maintain ownership of their property while limiting intense residential, commercial, or industrial development on the property in order to ensure land remains compatible with the flight test mission of NAS Patuxent River and ATR. The protected land is part of the Middle Chesapeake Sentinel Landscape. The Sentinel Landscapes partnership - between the Departments of Agriculture, Defense, and the Interior - seeks to preserve the working and rural character of key landscapes vital to military testing and training.

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For the entire release, see
https://www.dcmilitary.com/tester/news/local/pax-river-atr-repi-program-tops-k-acres/article_8d0c9f5f-5517-5776-991e-2643dddd0dbe.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org





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