BRAC subcabinet releases draft

Mark N Posted Mon 11-26-07

The Governor’s BRAC subcabinet meeting released a draft of its plan for the Base Realignment and Closure process. The state’s draft budget for BRAC currently includes only $5.4 million in fiscal 2008, in connection to the Navy Med transfer of Walter Reed Army Medical Center functions to the National Naval Medical Center campus in Bethesda.

State funding for local transportation projects is still on hold as the wait continues for the release of the Navy Environmental Impact Statement, now planned for early December. BRAC is projected to add an estimated 2,500 new workers to the Bethesda base and double the hospital’s patient and visitor load to about 900,000 people per year by 2011.

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