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<br /> I WEDNESDA Y. DECEMBER 20. 1995 .~ .....
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<br /> DEVELOPMENT ROUNDUP"~'at~;!{.
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<br /> " :1\.rmy clarifies
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<br /> t, '.plant land use
<br /> ; Rep. I
<br /> .... ~ " . Bruce Ven-
<br /> .. .....+ . . ^ .. to, D-Minn.,
<br /> "wasn't the
<br /> . only govern- . I
<br /> ment official
<br /> shocked
<br /> when the Ar-
<br /> . my'said this I
<br /> month that BLAKE
<br /> .; . it plans to MORRISON
<br /> retain nearly STAFF WRITER
<br /> '. all of the I
<br /> Twin Cities
<br /> , . Army Ammunition Plant land in
<br /> Arden Hills. -I
<br /> , ' Despite the Anny's insistence
<br /> " . . ,; - that it never committed to releas-
<br /> . C 'mg any of the 2,370-acre site. Den-
<br /> . : nls Spearman, chief. of the Gener.
<br /> ": al Services Administration's I
<br /> :' Midwest branch of the Office of
<br /> , .: . Property Disposal, said he was led
<br /> , to believe otherwise.
<br /> ..: : . "We were told that they were .r"
<br /> .- .:. going to ~uthorize us to distribute \ I
<br /> .: it," said'Spearman, whose depart.
<br /> .: . ment' would have begun sorting
<br /> '. : 1 through requests for the land wileD I
<br /> :.,;': the Defense Department declared
<br /> it uexcess."
<br /> ::;.: . ~'Webad expected to be dispo&- -
<br /> .' : ing of the property:' he said, "and
<br /> . r. we were sort of waiting to see I
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<br /> What happened was a decision
<br /> ;' hy the Army to "clarify" its posi-
<br /> !lion. I
<br /> '. . . "The Army never said it was go-
<br /> o ing to excess anr property," Mike
<br /> . , -Ax, representative to the plant's
<br /> .' . ,- commander, said earlier this . I
<br /> II19nth. "The Army is going to COD-
<br /> :.tinue to use the property for the
<br /> ....... eable futw-e."
<br /> . ither Fix, Vento nor Spear- -:
<br /> . . ,",ould discuss why the Army
<br /> . apparently has done an abuut-face.
<br /> . ~: But m~mhers of the Vento-ap-
<br /> : pointed,arsenal reuse committee
<br /> ~ said privately that the Army isn.t
<br /> , sure it can afford to clean the con-
<br /> r"-'-"~-P.
<br /> - release it. Decontaminating the I
<br /> soil is a condition to declare the
<br /> : property "excess."
<br /> . Fix insists that the decision to
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