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2008 - <br />LEE COUNT <br />. ©ooQco (3 23 0 • aon <br />Committed Today for a Better Tomorrow <br />RESOLUTION <br />WHEREAS, Governor Easley formed a study group charged with examining and <br />reporting on the strategic, environmental and economic impacts of the proposed Navy <br />outlying landing field (OLF) in North Carolina in February 2004, and <br />WHEREAS, the Navy and the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural <br />Resources have proposed four new potential OLF sites in Northeast North Carolina to <br />the Governor's OLF Study Group on September 19, 2007, and <br />WHEREAS, the Navy reported to the OLF Study Group that the proposed OLF would be <br />used primarily by aircraft stationed at Oceana Naval Air Station at Virginia Beach, <br />Virginia and not at Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station at Havelock, North Carolina, <br />and <br />WHEREAS, these new proposed sites are in addition to other Northeast North Carolina <br />sites identified and studied in 2002 for consideration by the Navy, and <br />• <br />WHEREAS, Northeast North Carolina would not recognize any benefits from an OLF at <br />any of the previously identified or newly proposed sites, and <br />WHEREAS, Northeast North Carolina would only receive detrimental impacts on our <br />citizens should an OLF be located in the region. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BIT IT RESOLVED, the Lee County Board of Commissioners <br />opposes locating a new outlying landing field in Gates County or in Northeast North <br />Carolina, <br />FURTHER, BE IT RESOLVED, the Lee County Board of Commissioners believes that <br />an OLF to primarily support the Ocean@ Naval Air Station should be located in Virginia <br />and not North Carolina, and <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the Lee County Board of Commissioners requests more <br />representatives from the counties of Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford, <br />Pasquotank, and Perquimans on the Governor's OLF Study Group. <br />Adopted this 4` day of February 2008. <br />ATTEST <br />• <br />O a (:] I M. Lee, Clerk <br />Robert H. Brown, Chairman <br />Lee County Board of Commissioners <br />