White House identifies unneeded government property

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-05-03-government-identifies-surplus-buildings_n.htm

WASHINGTON — The White House has identified 12,218 properties the federal government no longer needs, but the administration says Congress must act to reach the $15 billion President Obama hopes to save in three years by dumping unneeded property.

That's why the president will send legislation to Congress today to create an independent commission — modeled after the military's Base Realignment and Closure Commission established in 1988 — to identify civilian federal properties that could be closed, sold or demolished.

Twenty different laws govern the sale of federal property and should be streamlined, Zients said. A 1988 law, for example, requires agencies to consider converting unused properties to homeless shelters.

And politically, closing a federal building in a congressman's district doesn't provide the same ribbon-cutting photo op as opening a new one, he said.

Their data show excess properties in all 50 states, and Western states — with large holdings by the National Forest Service and the Department of the Interior— have the most.

Thanks for the link sinkingfeeling. Interesting.

Others are flood controls, monuments, labs, warehouses, etc.

and do not sell off national treasures. It feels like we are being forced to privitize our assets. I would love to know who is lining up to buy the land and what say they have had int he choosing of the property to be sold.

;-)

gov't properties on or near reservations.

part of the reservation.

Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge
The Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge on the south shore of Long Island is one of the last undeveloped estuary systems remaining on Long Island. Approximately half of the refuge consists of aquatic habitats including bay with marine seagrass beds, intertidal saltmarsh, high saltmarsh, freshwater marsh, shrub swamp, and red maple swamp. The refuge's saltmarshes, combined with the adjacent New York State-owned saltmarsh, form the largest continuous saltmarsh on Long Island.
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http://www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=52561

I hope the state or the county can have it.

Brookhaven National Lab is also on the list. Some of these are just buldings and warehouses. Others are monuments and burial grounds.

Maybe some of those will be on the list...

http://www.missilebases.com/

I wonder why? It is like every NWR or NF is having property taken away, just at a time when rivers are flooding here.