Base Visit Book - Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, VA prepared for The Honorable Anthony J. Principi (Chairman) on May 24, 2005 DOD RECOMMENDATION is to realign Naval Air Station Great Lakes, IL, Sheppard Air Force Base, TX, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, VA, Naval Medical Center San Diego, CA by relocating basic and specialty enlisted medical training to Fort Sam Houston, TX. DOD JUSTIFICATION is to transform legacy medical infrastructure into a modernized joint operational medicine platform. This recommendation reduces excess capacity within the San Antonio Multi-Service Market (MSM: two or more facilities co-located geographically with "shared" beneficiary population) while maintaining the level of care for the beneficiaries, enhancing opportunities for provider currency, and maintaining surge capacity. Co-locating all (except Aerospace Medicine) medical basic and specialty enlisted training at Fort Sam Houston, TX, with the potential of transitioning to a joint training effort

COBRA Program - RC Transformation in New Hampshire

Disregard Restriction Header and Footer - RC Transformation in New Hampshire - Impacted Sites: AFRC Pease-Newington

COBRA Program - Naval Shipyard Portsmouth, Kittery, ME

Disregard Restriction Header and Footer – Naval Shipyard Portsmouth, Kittery, ME – Impacted Sites: NAVSHIPYD_NORFOLK_VA, VA; NAVSHIPYD_PORTSMOUTH_NH, NH; NAVSTA_BREMERTON_WA, WA; NAVSTA_PEARL_HARBOR_HI, HI

Community Correspondence – Letter from a concerned citizen regarding the closure of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

Community Correspondence – Letter from a concerned citizen regarding the closure of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

Executive Correspondence – Letter from the Board of Selectmen, Lawrence L. Martin, Chair; Karen C. Umberger, Vice Chair; C. David Weathers; Mark L Hounsell; Town of Conway, New Hampshire, to Chairman Principi in regards to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. They wish to express disappointment over the recommendation to include the base in the closure list, and wish to support removing the base from the list.

Letter copied to all BRAC Commissioners from the New England Congressional Delegation (Senators Snowe, Collins, Gregg, and Sununu; Representatives Bradley, Allen, Michaud, and Bass) discussing the importance of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

Community Correspondence – Letter from a concerned citizen regarding the closure of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

Executive Correspondence – Letter to all Chairman Principi from The Candia Boad of Selectmaen, Gary York Chairman, Clark Thyng, Fred Kelly discussing Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in New Hampshire.

Executive Correspondence - Letter copied to all BRAC Commissioners from the New England Congressional Delegation (Senators Gregg, Snowe, Collins, Sununu, Kennedy, and Kerry; Representatives Allen, Bradley, Michaud, Bass, and Tierney) discussing the importance of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and enclosing a document entitled Portsmouth: The Navy's Lean Machine

Executive Correspondence – Letters dated 9 June, 2005 to Chairman Principi and all BRAC Commissioners from Senators Gregg, Snowe, Sununu, and Collins and Representatives Bass, Allen, Bradley, and Michaud enclosing a list of all military construction projects undertaken at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard since 1971. This list was requested by the Commission during its 1 June, 2005 visit to the shipyard.

Executive Correspondence – Letters to Chairman Principi and Commissioners Turner, Coyle, Gehman, Hill, Hansen, Bilbray, Newton and Skinner from Senators Gregg, Snowe, Sununu, and Collins as well as Representatives Bradley, Allen and Michaud discussing the potential regional impact should Portsmouth Naval Shipyard be closed.

This issue brief discusses pay secrecy policies that nearly half of workers nationally reported that they were either contractually forbidden or strongly discouraged from discussing their pay with their colleagues. Includes a listing of state laws that protect employees in discussing pay and compensation.

103-06A – NMC12 base Input Navy/MC – Naval Shipyard Portsmouth-NH, The Periscope volume 62, No 8 September 2004. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Presentation for Base Realignment and Closure Commissioners

Petition from USW Local 1-61 Vice President, David A. Scott, to Commission opposing the closure or reassigning of more military bases within the United States.

Report discussing a 1948 geological examination of 7,662 miles of roadside rocks in Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and southeastern New York to find deposits of radioactive materials.

From abstract: In 1948, 7,662 miles of roadside rocks and soils in Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and southeastern New York were traversed with a car-mounted Geiger-Mueller counter. The observed distribution of the abnormally radioactive rocks and soils is limited to certain areas, herein called "radioactive provinces," that are separated from each other by areas of essentially nonradioactive rock.