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Friends,<br>
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Regarding this article, "Farmland is being readied for a nuclear
crop":<br>
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Here's more evidence that the DemoRepub party, including President
Obama, is in harmony with the Military-Nuclear Weapons-Industrial
Complex. <br>
<br>
I think the Green Party should take a leadership role in confronting
the involved entities carrying out this crime against humanity.
Civil disobedience may have to be part of a strategy.<br>
<br>
Other minor parties should also be encouraged to join in actively
opposing the nuclear weapons movement. <br>
<br>
In the spirit of peace, justice and open discussion,<br>
<br>
Fred D.<br>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font: 10px Arial;"><b>Posted
on Sat, Sep. 04, 2010 10:15 PM</b></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font: 20px Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><b>Farmland
is
being readied for a nuclear crop</b></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(102,
102, 102);">By
KEVIN COLLISON</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(102,
102, 102);">The
Kansas City Star</p>
<ul>
<li style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><u>Bulldozers
are
rolling on a billion-dollar project that will transform a
former
soybean field in south Kansas City into America’s only
privately
developed plant making parts for nuclear weapons</u>.</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">When
it comes to the area economy, there is no question about the
importance
of the facility being built for Honeywell Federal Manufacturing
&
Technologies.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">With
2,500 workers, the Honeywell plant now in the Bannister Federal
Complex
is the area’s third-largest manufacturing facility, after the Ford
and
General Motors factories.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">The
replacement project will keep 2,100 well-paid Honeywell jobs in
Kansas
City. About 1,500 construction workers also will be needed to
build the
five-building, 1.5 million-square-foot campus, the biggest
construction
project since the Sprint campus was completed a decade ago.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">The
new plant will be unique in another way.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">The
current Honeywell operation in the federally owned Bannister
complex is
tax-exempt. But because the new plant is a private development, it
will
be on the local tax rolls for the first time. When fully
operational in
mid-2014, it will generate $5.2 million annually in local property
tax
revenue, according to the development officials.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">“I
think it’s huge for Kansas City at a time Kansas City needs good
news,”
said Brad Scott, a former federal official who helped guide the
deal,
which was more than four years in the making.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">A
groundbreaking ceremony set for Wednesday at the 185-acre site at
Missouri 150 and Botts Road is expected to attract dignitaries
such as
Sen. Kit Bond, a Missouri Republican; Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a
Missouri
Democrat; and Thomas P. D’Agostino, the top executive with the
National
Nuclear Security Administration, the federal agency in charge of
the
Honeywell contract.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">Despite
the ceremonial fanfare, the project has its critics. Also expected
at
the groundbreaking are peace activists, some of whom plan to be
arrested for trespassing.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">“There’s
no justification … to the local economy that justifies putting the
whole planet at risk,” said Ann Suellentrop, a registered nurse
who
leads the area chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">Opponents
of nuclear proliferation had hoped to gain the support of the
Obama
administration to block the project. But that effort lost traction
when
the administration supported maintaining the current nuclear
arsenal.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);"><u>When
asked to comment about the Kansas City project, a White House
aide
referred to a statement President Barack Obama issued last
April.</u></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);"><u>“So
long as nuclear weapons exist, we will maintain a safe, secure
and
effective arsenal,” the president said</u>.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">The
Kansas City plant is an integral part of the U.S. nuclear arms
infrastructure, producing 85 percent of the non-nuclear parts that
go
into a typical weapon, federal officials said.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">Much
of its current workload, according to a recent federal report, is
extending the life of the W76 missile warhead, a
submarine-launched
weapon seven times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);"><b>The
development push</b></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">The
project is being developed by CenterPoint Zimmer LLC for the
National
Nuclear Security Administration. The construction price is $443
million, but other costs, including $263 million to relocate
operations
from the Bannister complex, will drive the final cost near $1
billion.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">The
massive endeavor started in spring 2006 with a rumor that
Honeywell
wanted out of Bannister. The former World War II defense plant was
converted to producing nuclear weapons parts at the dawn of the
Cold
War in 1949.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">The
3.2 million-square-foot plant employed nearly 8,000 people at its
peak
in the 1980s, but it is down to 2,500 workers. Honeywell wanted
something smaller and more efficient.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">It
costs $400 million annually to operate the current facility, and a
new
plant would save about $100 million a year, federal officials
said.
There also was talk of consolidating its operations at a nuclear
arms
facility in New Mexico.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">The
key initial challenge was obtaining authorization from Washington.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">Persuading
Congress to pay for the project up front in the normal federal
budget
process was considered unlikely, said Scott, who at the time was
administrator for the General Services Administration Heartland
Region.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">Instead,
the GSA decided to pursue a private lease deal. In January 2008,
Congress authorized a proposal that allowed the agency to lease
the
project from a private developer. The agency was allowed to pay up
to
$38 per square foot, or $58.9 million annually over 20 years.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">The
decision to build the plant privately will make the Kansas City
facility an exception among the seven other facilities around the
country used to make nuclear weapons, including the Lawrence
Livermore
National Laboratory in California and Sandia National Laboratory
in New
Mexico.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">All
are owned by the U.S. Department of Energy, the parent agency of
the
National Nuclear Security Administration.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">“We
are a unique operation within the (National Nuclear Security
Administration),” said Mark Holecek, the federal official in
charge of
the Kansas City plant. “We have no nuclear materials at all here.
…
This is essentially an aerospace facility.”</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">Another
unusual aspect of the Kansas City project is the participation of
local
government.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">As
a private development, half the new property taxes — $2.6 million
a
year — will be diverted over 25 years to help pay for road
improvements
and other infrastructure work required for the project.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">The
biggest public entity that will benefit under the plan is the
Grandview
School District, with annual property tax revenue from the
development
site jumping from $652 a year to $1.6 million, development
officials
said.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);"><b>Clearing
hurdles</b></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">The
search for the private developer began in late 2007. A short list
was
identified in April 2008. But that summer, the project experienced
a
“bid bust” when none of the finalists offered a proposal that came
in
under the $38-per-square-foot cap.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">Scott
said the bid bust was the low point in the effort to keep
Honeywell in
Kansas City. The agency had wanted to have the Kansas City project
under way before the Bush administration left office in January
2009.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">“I
was very concerned,” he said. “The undercurrent was, with a change
in
administration, what would be the new administration view of our
nuclear arsenal?</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">“There
was also a real threat of being consolidated with other
operations,
Sandia (New Mexico) being one of them.”</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">But
it turned out the election of Obama made no difference.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">After
the bid bust, Scott said, his agency “fought like crazy” to
persuade
administrators in Washington to allow changes to the plan and
reopen
bidding.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">In
April 2009, CenterPoint Zimmer, a venture between Zimmer Real
Estate
Services of Kansas City and CenterPoint of Oak Brook, Ill., was
chosen
as developer. It edged out DST Realty of Kansas City and another
group,
Quality Lease & Development of Overland Park.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">The
other area players on the CenterPoint Zimmer team are J.E. Dunn
Construction Co., HNTB Architects, both of Kansas City, and
Johnson
Controls of Lenexa.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">Only
one major obstacle remained.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">Opponents
had filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington in
October
2008 opposing the plan on environmental grounds. They had argued
that
the proposal failed to address substantial environmental problems
at
the Bannister plant and challenged the private development aspect
of
the deal.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">That
roadblock was removed in October 2009 when a federal judge
dismissed
the suit.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">Holecek
said the Nuclear Security Administration would not leave behind an
environmental mess at Bannister.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">“It
will be ready to be marketed to another user,” he said.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">The
final public step came in February, when the Kansas City Council
approved the tax breaks for the infrastructure improvements.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">Councilman
Ed Ford cast the lone dissenting vote.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">“If
they were building widgets, I’d have supported it,” Ford said.
“The
fact is they’re building components for nuclear weapons and, in
good
conscious, I could not vote for it.”</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">Last
week, Bishop Robert Finn of the Catholic Diocese of Kansas
City-St.
Joseph issued a statement regarding the groundbreaking ceremony.
It
reiterated the church’s opposition to nuclear weapons because of
their
massive, indiscriminate destructive power and expressed hope that
“one
day this facility may be transformed from a producer of weapons
into a
producer of goods that benefit all mankind.”</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">But
for Jim Cross, the CenterPoint official in charge of the project,
the
Kansas City plant is a vital element in the defense of the U.S.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">“It’s
a deterrent,” he said. “When you look at what’s going on all over
the
world, if this saves our men and women in the armed forces, helps
protect them … it’s a wonderful thing.”</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);"><b>Campus-like
design</b></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">Grading
work has begun at the site, and the first concrete is expected to
be
poured in October. Structural steel should begin rising from the
site
early next year.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">For
J.E. Dunn, the project is expected to generate 20 percent of its
local
revenue over the next three years. The project comes as the area
construction industry still struggles with the economic downturn.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">“Our
work force is about 65 percent of what it was three years ago,”
said
Dirk Schafer, executive vice president at J.E. Dunn. “This will
let it
jump 10 to 15 percent.”</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">The
campus will consist of five structures and is being designed to
meet
the LEED Gold standard set by the U.S. Green Building Council.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">Perhaps
the most complicated part will be managing the move from the
Bannister
facility to the new campus. Two-thirds of the equipment at
Bannister
will be relocated.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">“We
are a production facility and those products (will) need to be
shipped
regularly” to avoid too much of a disruption in production,
Holecek
said.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">While
the buildings are scheduled to be completed in November 2012, the
plant
won’t be fully operational until more than 18 months later because
of
all the inspections, testing and relocation involved.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">Don’t
expect any armed convoys ferrying the industrial guts of the old
plant
to its replacement eight miles away.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);">“We’ll
try to be as discrete as possible moving equipment,” Holecek said.
“The
majority of what we’re moving is commercially available industrial
equipment. This will be nothing in the way of a military
operation.”</p>
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min-height: 14px;"><br>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><b>Kansas
City
plant timeline </b></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><b>1943:
</b>The federal government builds a massive plant on Bannister
Road
during World War II for Pratt & Whitney to produce military
aircraft engines.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
min-height: 14px;"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);"><b>1949:
</b>The plant is converted to manufacture nuclear weapons parts,
and
Bendix Aviation Corp. wins the contract from the Atomic Energy
Commission. (The company name evolves to become Allied Bendix
Aerospace, then AlliedSignal and finally Honeywell Federal
Manufacturing & Technologies.)</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);"><b>1988:
</b>The plant work force peaks at about 7,850.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);"><b>2006:
</b>Honeywell decides it wants a smaller, more efficient facility,
and
employment dwindles to 2,500.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);"><b>April
2007: </b>The federal General Services Administration
identifies a
185-acre field at Missouri 150 and Botts Road as the location for
a new
plant.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);"><b>January
2008: </b>Congress authorizes a leaseback plan to privately
develop a
1.5 million-square-foot replacement facility.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);"><b>April
2009: </b>CenterPoint Zimmer LLC is chosen as the developer.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);"><b>February
2010: </b>The Kansas City Council approves tax incentives for
the
project.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);"><b>July
2010: </b>CenterPoint Zimmer completes its financing.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);"><b>Sept.
8, 2010: </b>Groundbreaking ceremony.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);"><b>November
2012: </b>Construction scheduled to be completed.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(34, 34,
34);"><b>Mid-2014:
</b>New plant expected to be fully operational.</p>
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href="http://www.kansascity.com/personas?plckUserId=0a280319850cd9e0d4d8068c614255a1-2318942&insiteUserId=0a280319850cd9e0d4d8068c614255a1-2318942"><b>John_Galt</b></a></span><b>
wrote on 9/4/2010 11:15:26 PM:</b></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font: 12px Arial; color: rgb(51, 51,
51);">A
totally unnecessary boondoggle. There is absolutely no reason why
the
current facilities can't handle the ever-dwindling demand for
parts for
the nuclear arsenal.Now the taxpayers will have to cough up rent
money,
in perpetuity, for this 'campus.'Good deal for the landlord. BAD
deal
for the taxpayer, i.e., YOU.</p>
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