[CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITIES: Fort Derrick (MD) Restoration Advisory Board

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Increased outreach, engagement recommended to group monitoring clean-up of Fort Detrick's Area B

By Emmett Gartner
Frederick News-Post, Md.
January 20, 2023

To keep more Frederick residents informed of the Army's clean-up efforts at Fort Detrick's Area B, a nonprofit has recommended community forums and expanding outreach with information on the process.

Specific recommendations included having the city of Frederick fill a permanent seat on the civilian board that oversees Area B's remediation and regularly posting online updates on Fort Detrick's website and social media pages.

Members of the Massachusetts-based Consensus Building Institute began surveying members of the board in 2022 to understand how members involved in Area B's clean-up could improve relations with one another and the community.

The city's engineer, Tracy Coleman, regularly attends the board's meetings, but the city is looking how it would permanently fill that seat, according to Allen Etzler, the city's communications manager.

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For the entire article, see
https://news.yahoo.com/increased-outreach-engagement-recommended-group-045900390.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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