AJR28: Joint Resolution Text

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1995 - 1996 LEGISLATURE

1995 Assembly JOINT RESOLUTION 28

March 21, 1995 - Introduced by Representatives Boyle, Bock, Notestein, Krug, Wirch, R. Young, Baldus, F. Lasee and Albers, cosponsored by Senators Risser and Clausing. Referred to Special committee on State-Federal Relations.

AJR28,1,1 Relating to: recommending the closing of the Navy's Project ELF transmitter.

AJR28,1,4 Whereas, the end of the Cold War has eliminated whatever justification existed for the operation of the Navy's Project ELF transmitter, near Clam Lake in Ashland County; and

AJR28,1,6 Whereas, the federal government has a serious budget deficit and operating Project ELF costs between $16 million and $20 million per year; and

AJR28,1,10 Whereas, the environmental and public health concerns raised by Project ELF have increased with the growing body of scientific evidence pointing to adverse effects caused by extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields such as those generated by Project ELF; and

AJR28,1,12 Whereas, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee voted on March 2, 1995, to eliminate funding for Project ELF; and

AJR28,1,17 Whereas, section 2924 of Public Law 101-510 states that in selecting any military installation for closure, "the Secretary of Defense shall take such steps as are necessary to assure that special consideration and emphasis is given to any official statement from a unit of general local government adjacent to or within a military installation requesting the closure or realignment of such installation"; and

AJR28,2,4 Whereas, U.S. Senators Russell Feingold and Herb Kohl and U.S. Representative David Obey have recommended to the U.S. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BCRC) that the Project ELF transmitter be closed; and

AJR28,2,8 Whereas, the Project ELF transmitter meets the 3 principal criteria that are considered by the BCRC for base closures, namely, a lack of military or national security need, an unjustifiable federal expense, and a potential environmental or health hazard; now, therefore, be it

AJR28,2,11 Resolved by the assembly, the Senate concurring, That the members of the Wisconsin Legislature recommend that the Navy's Project ELF transmitter in Clam Lake, Wisconsin, be closed in 1995; and, be it further

AJR28,2,14 Resolved, That the assembly chief clerk shall provide copies of this joint resolution to each member of this state's congressional delegation, to President Clinton and to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.

AJR28,2,15 (End)