Pentagon Discussing Next Legislative Environmental Proposal

By Suzanne Yohannan / November 19, 2002 at 5:00 AM
Defense Environment Alert -- The Defense Department is discussing internally the elements of a new legislative proposal that addresses what it sees as environmental regulatory restrictions on military testing and training. This time around, DOD hopes to boost its interaction with Congress, after its attempts in the 107th Congress failed to win enough converts to support most of the targeted environmental exemptions it had sought. "The problems have not gone away," so the department will almost surely propose legislation, one...

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