Base Visit Trip Report - Former NAS Cecil Field - 2nd Visit - 8/19/05

Base Visit Trip Report - Former NAS Cecil Field - August 10, 2005

During the Base Closure and Realignment Commission's Regional Hearing at New Orleans on 22 July, several members of the Florida delegation suggested relocating the Navy's east coast Master Jet Base, presently at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia, to Cecil Field. You, however, did not mention the possibility of such a move in your remarks.

Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 08/15/2005 to Senator Warner from Chairman Principi in response to DCN 7273 on the BRAC E-Library concerning the BRAC hearing on 8/20/2005 regarding the state of Florida.

Executive Correspondence - Letter of invitation to Gov Bush to meet with members of the Commission on 11 Aug 05 to discuss Cecil Field's viability as a potential alternative to NAS Oceana

Executive Correspondence - Letter to Governor Bush informing him of the Commission's decision to conduct a hearing to further consider information that was presented during meetings between the BRAC Commissioners and Gov Bush on 11 Aug 05

Correspondence between the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) and a Florida Delegation regarding the potential use of Cecil Field in Duval County, Florida. Includes Commission memorandums, letters from Jeb Bush, Robert J. Natter, John Leenhouts, and John Peyton, as well as maps of the location and cost charts.

Attachments to an unspecified Memorandum of Meeting regarding the Naval Ordnance Test Unit (NOTU) located at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida. Contains a recommendation to reject BRAC's decision to realign NOTU to Kings Bay Naval Base, Georgia as well as Cost Of Base Realignment Actions (COBRA) report runs on the NOTU.

Regional Hearing Issue Summary

Disregard Header and Footer Restriction: Candidate recommendation #DON-0002R, Candidate summary table with justification, military value, payback, impacts.

Disregard Header and Footer Restriction: Candidate Recommendation # DON-0002R, justification, payback, economic impact on communities, community infrastructure impact, environmental impact, potential competing recommendations, force structure capabilities, military value analysis results, and military values score table.

Disregard Header and Footer Restriction: DON scenario, DON-0002R Summary of Scenario Environmental Impacts, Naval Station Mayport

Disregard Header and Footer Restriction: Economic Impact Report Criterion 6 that depicts the economic impact of the following scenarios EIR DONCR-0002R Pascagoula to Mayport.

Disregard Header and Footer Restriction: IJCSG Ship repair and overhaul capacity report that has total current capacity, total current usage, maximum capacity, capacity requierd to surge, cpacity available to surge/excess capacity.

Disregard Restriction of Header and Footer: Naval Air Station Pensacola Florida Criterion 7 tables and summaries for demographics, child care, cost of living, education, employment, housing, medical providers, safety/crime, transportation, and utilities.

Disregard Header and Footer Restriction: Tables that provide a short description of the area near Naval Station Mayport Florida installation. NAVSTA_MAYPORT_FL is 1.5 miles from Jacksonville, FL, the nearest city with a population of 100,000 or more. The nearest metropolitan statistical area (MSA).

Base Input - Naval Air Station Pensacola FL - Briefing Slides

Coalition Correspondence – Letter dtd 08/22/2005 to Chairman Principi from Ronald Merritt, President DeTect, Inc. regarding safety issues at NAS Oceana and NAS Cecil Field.

Coalition Correspondence - Letter from the Florida Chapter of the Nature Conservancy State Director, Victoria Tschinkel to Chairman Principi dtd 18 Aug 05 regarding Conservation issues.

Correspondence - Letter from Kerim Akel Regarding Eglin AFB, FL and the transfer of C4ISR effort to Edwards AFB

Community Input - Air Force - Patrick Air Force Base (Naval Ordinance Test Unit) Input from the Governor, elected officials and various cities on the Space coast.

Community Input - General - Florida - Briefing for Admiral Harold Gehman, Jr from Jackson's Restaurant - June 15, 2005

Community Input - Naval Air Station Pensacola Complex Presentation for Admiral Gehman

Remove restriction header and footer - Mr. H. T. Johnson, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Installations and Environment (ASN (BE)), met with members of the Miami-Dade community delegation, including Katy Sorenson, Vice Chair, Board of County Commissioners, County Commissioner, District 8; Juan Carlos Bermudez, Mayor, City of Doral; Theodore H. Bornstein, and Jeffrey S. Newman, Foley & Lardner, LLP; and Captain James A. Noel, USMC, IAT Recorder at 0900 in Room 4B552 at the Pentagon on 16 June 2004.