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Lawmakers Vie for Missile Defense Site After Pentagon Announces 4 Finalists

Lawmakers Vie for Missile Defense Site After Pentagon Announces 4 Finalists
Rep. Bill Owens (D-N.Y.)

The Defense Department announced four locations it will investigate as a potential East Coast missile defense site to supplement interceptors in Alaska and California. The four locations--Camp Ravenna, Ohio; Fort Custer, Mich.; Fort Drum, N.Y.; and the Portsmouth Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape Training Area, Maine--will undergo a 24-month Environmental Impact Statement process, which includes investigating how land use, water resources, air quality, local community infrastructure and socioeconomics, and more would be affected by setting up a Ground-based Midcourse Defense…

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