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Published on: 11/1/2006
Last Visited: 11/16/2006
"I haven't gotten a lot of good answers," Alsentzer said.
The answers are supposed to come later in a draft environmental impact statement.
But Dorothee Alsentzer of the Natural Resources Defense Council said the Navy, with its DEIS documents for an Outlying Landing Field in Washington County and an Undersea Warfare Training Range off Camp Lejuene, has established a track record for incomplete assessments.
She pointed to a 2007 Defense Department budget in which Congress cut funding for the East Coast undersea warfare training range and directed that no money be spent on the sonar range other than for the environmental impact statement process.