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From: Norio Hayakawa <GroomWatch@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 17:19:50 EST
Fwd Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 22:23:19 -0500
Subject: US Air Force To Take Over Area 51 Land


The Las Vegas Review Journal on Thursday, December 16, 1999
reported that the 38,400-acre rectangle surrounding Groom Lake
are (a.k.a. Area 51) is being relinquished by the Department of
Energy and is being officially handed over to the Air Force for
total control, ownership and jurisdiction.

The full article can be found at:

http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1999/Dec-16-Thu-1999/news/12566049.html

Here is an excerpt (posted on Dec. 16 by Glenn Campbell of Las
Vegas and webmaster of world-renowned UFOMIND.COM) from the
article by Keith Rogers of Las Vegas Review Journal:

The Department of Energy made it official Wednesday:  the Nevada
Test Site has grown by nearly 200 square miles thanks to some
surface contamination from a 1968 nuclear test and President
Clinton's signature on a law this year.

The new law, according to an Energy Department statement, also
serves "to correct several land use and jurisdiction
misalignments throughout the complex".  That means the Air Force
takes control over DOE's rectangle around Groom Lake, along the
northeastern corner of the test site, which had been controlled
by the Air Force under a secret agreement.

The location, also known as Area 51 - the site of at least one
classified airstrip - has been shown on government maps as a
38,400-acre rectangle primarily in Lincoln County that belonged
to the Department of Energy but was controlled by the Air Force
and had not been shown by DOE as part of the Nevada Test Site.

The "misalignments", according to the Energy Department's
statement, "had become outdated and inefficient because of
evolving mission needs among the Department of Energy and
Department of Defense.

--End Excerpt--

COMMENTS by Norio Hayakawa:

What does this all mean?  This basically means that the DOE
gained 200 additional square miles in Nevada in partial exchange
for relinquishing "ownership" of land around Groom Lake to the
Air Force, which was exactly what the latter had wanted all
along!

It means that the Air Force finally got what it always wanted
from the very beginning, i.e., total control and "ownership" of
the 38,400-acre rectangle that surrounds Groom Lake (a.k.a. AREA
51, which had always been a strictly DOE-designated name, not an
Air Force-designated name).

This was the final result of a series of Public Hearings which
were held during 1998 in Nevada to correct "misalignments" and
"confusing jurisdictions" of the past that would have hindered
any new modifications to future land use of the entire Nevada
Test Site.

This means that there will be no more "secret agreements" with
DOE necessary. Now the Air Force will be free to name this base
in Air Force's terms, for example, "Groom Lake Air Base", etc.
and expand its multi-faceted programs at the base, which they
are already doing anyway.

This would be perfectly all right with us, as long as they
address once and for all the yet unresolved issue of former
workers' compensatory rights and also abide by environmental
statutes.

This also means that the Air Force will be able to provide its
own Air Force's Guard Shack and Air Force's own Security
Personnel, without having to rely on "anonymous", semi-private
security contracted through DOE's Special Response Team (SRT) or
even other entities such as Wackenhut Special Security
personnel.

The Air Force will also technically be empowered to erect a
definite, clearly-marked security fence (for safety to the
public) all along the borderlines of Groom Lake base.

What new changes will actually be made at the restricted
boundary line on Groom Lake Road, as a result of this new
"change of hands", remains to be seen.

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