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Fact Sheet: Base Closings

UPDATED: 5:16 am HST August 26, 2005

A look at a federal commission's decisions on the list of major bases the Pentagon wants to close. The Pentagon defines "major" as facilities whose replacement cost would be $100 million or greater.

CLOSE (as Pentagon recommended)

    California:
  • Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach Concord Detachment
  • Riverbank Army Ammunition Plant
  • Onizuka Air Force Station Georgia:
  • Fort McPherson
  • Fort Gillem
  • Naval Air Station Atlanta

    Indiana:
  • Newport Chemical Depot (closure was conditioned upon completion of treaty obligations)

    Kansas:
  • Kansas Army Ammunition Plant

    Michigan:
  • Selfridge Army Activity

    Mississippi:
  • Mississippi Army Ammunition Plant
  • Naval Station Pascagoula

    New Jersey:
  • Fort Monmouth (closure was conditioned on an assurance that research under way in connection with the war on terrorism won't be disrupted)

    Oregon:
  • Umatilla Chemical Depot (closure was conditioned upon completion of treaty obligations)

    Texas:
  • Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant
  • Naval Station Ingleside
  • Brooks City
  • Base

    Utah:
  • Deseret Chemical Depot (closure was conditioned upon completion of treaty obligations and a study to see if the depot can be converted for another use)

    Virginia:
  • Fort Monroe

KEEP OPEN (either wholly or partially, rather than close as the Pentagon wanted)

    California
  • Naval Support Activity, Corona

    Connecticut
  • Submarine Base New London

    Louisiana
  • Naval Support Activity, New Orleans

    Maine
  • Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

    Nevada
  • Hawthorne Army Depot

    South Dakota
  • Ellsworth Air Force Base

    Texas
  • Red River Army Depot

CLOSE (rather than downsize as Pentagon wanted)

    Maine
  • Naval Air Station Brunswick

KEEP OPEN (rather than drastically downsize as the Pentagon had wanted)

    Alaska
  • Eielson Air Force Base.

The commission also decided to keep open two bases it had considered closing, but it added conditions in both cases. The Pentagon wanted all along to keep them open. Those bases are:

    California
  • Broadway Complex San Diego

    Virginia
  • Oceana Naval Air Station

NO VOTES YET

    Alaska:
  • Kulis Air Guard Station

    Massachusetts:
  • Otis Air National Guard Base

    Michigan:
  • W.K. Kellogg Airport Air Guard Station

    New Mexico:
  • Cannon Air Force Base

    New York:
  • Niagara Falls International Airport Air Guard Station

    Pennsylvania:
  • Naval Air Station Willow Grove
  • Pittsburgh International Airport Air Reserve Station

    Wisconsin:
  • General Mitchell Air Reserve Station

(Sources: Defense Department, AP)
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