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Navy Continues to Push-On with Washington County OLF

May 02, 2007 @ 11:34 pm by Moose

Despite the opposition from basically every state politician, the entire congressional delegation from North Carolina and overall public opinion the Navy continues to push – on with the plan although it would seem that they have lost some of their vigor. Although it would be easy to assume the plan is dead we must continue to fight till the bitter end. Public opinion period ends on May 9th but Congressmen Butterfield & Price have pressed for a 45 day extension on the public comment period thus far the Navy has had no comment on the extension request. I don’t think extending it will do much I think the Navy just needs to move on and work with state officials and find a workable site.

The Winston Salem Journal is reporting that;

Navy Secretary Donald Winter has decided to seriously reconsider alternative sites for a proposed landing field in eastern North Carolina, a congressman said Wednesday.
Winter met Wednesday with Reps. Walter Jones, a Republican, and G.K. Butterfield, a Democrat, amid overwhelming public opposition to the Navy’s preferred site for the so-called outlying landing field in Washington and Beaufort counties.

I don’t know about anyone else but I’m hopeful that this is the case and Secretary Winters takes the Washington County site off the short list.