LAW ENFORCEMENT CENTER BUILDING TEMPORARILY HALTED
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Er'.Iui~djing, Teniporarny H011-ted
The people' of Prince
George's County have prevailed
in the first round of the action
to deter fragmentation and
,development of the counted-on
open space of the nearby federal
property belonging presently to
the Department of Agriculture.
orally, in writing not to begin
construction although they had
verbally done so, Judge Cor-
coran requested that they agree
to wait. Lawyers for Treasury
complied with the judge's
requests. Such stipulation in
court has the binding force of
The Department of the
Treasury, the agency desiring to law and has the same effect that
build. their new Consolidated an injunction would have, had
Law Enforcement Training the proceeding gone further.
Center on a 500-acre segment
of Agriculture property, agreed
in court on Friday, May 18 that
further construction will not
proceed until such time as a
new environmental impact
statement has been filed as
requested by the Prince
George's County Planning
Board of. the, Maryland-
National Capital Park and Plan-
It will probably be at least
three months before the
The Commission ' filed suit
against the General Services
Administration and the Depart-,
ptent of the Treasury last
February for their alleged
violation of the National En-
vironmental Policy Act which
required than an Environmen-
tal Impact Statement be issued
regarding the Training Center
proposed for a portion of the
Department of Agriculture
research farm.
statement can be prepared; and The Calverton Citizens
after it is filed 90 days must
litigation (see THE OUT
for
elapse to provide time
public "review and comment" May 1972) and a motion to in-
tervene has been filed by Attor-
as required by the Environm~n ney Michael S. Yaroschuk,
tall Protection Act.
e Street who is
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, The impact statement will be/ CCA in this action.
tiled with and reviewed by the
Council on Environmental In the memorandum... in sup-
port of motion to intervene,
esident's advisor
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and policy-making body. Par- A states that "the
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ties to the suit against Treasurymay then request a hearing by posed ' the Government's
that council if they dispute the proposal which would result in
facts or conclusions of the im- the destruction of the existing
pact statement. open green space in the area
Treasury's agreement came, and which will have a direct ad-
somewhat surprisingly, early in verse effect upon the existing
the proceedings as Judge water and sewer facilities and
Howard Corcoran interrupted support facilities. such as fire
Counsel for the plaintiff David protection, if the proposed ex-.
Freishtat, after only several pansion is permitted to con-
minutes of his opening tinue."
argument, to ask why on the
basis of the facts presented the
parties were in court.
When it was answered that
Treasury would not agree for-
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The memorandum further
states that "...citizens have not
only a right to the preservation
of natural surroundings. the en-
vironment, as it presently exists,
but also have a direct economic,
interest in the development of
this property.
"Further, the burden upon
existing sewer and water
facilities will be multiplied. At
the present time, building has
been curtained (sic) in the
Anacostia River Basin and
Parkway River basin because ot'
lack of sufficient sewage treat-
ment facilities. Both Prince
George's County and Mon-
tgomery County have adopted
staying policies to stem the tide
of "urban sprawl" and to give
direction to the uncontrolled
development of the present
open lands and to establish. a
hierarchy of commitment of the
available tax revenues."
'
"The
proposal of the
Treasury Department to expand
its present facilities ignores the
needs of the community and the
impact upon the quality of life
to which these citizens are en-
titled. .
"In passing the National En-
vironmental Policy Act 'of,
I969...Congress sought to im-
pose restraints on the federal
Act 'to avoid environnientat
degradation, preserve historic,
cultural, and natural resources
and p.'omote the widest range of
beneficial uses of the environ-
ment without... undesirable and
unintended consequences.'
Further reason for interven-
tion in the suit is stated thus:
"The interest of the Intervenor
is not identical to that of the
Plaintiff. While each seeks to
restrain the construction of the
project. the Intervenor is the
only one who can speak for the
local residents who will hear
the burden of the Government's
action.
"Clearly, under the recent
cast's. the Intervenor represents
a sufficient interest in the suit
which must he recognized.
''As Governmental bodies.
the Plaintiffs inay, well choose
to conclude the matter on
grounds unsatisfactorv to the
Intervenor. The only wary that
the Intervenor can he assured
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'The Act r-yuires that i
Cnvirunnncntal uartract st;ttcmc
he submitted for alf Iar,,pWac
Government cowtruction. T[
suit contends
that the statement filed is it
stead an economic statentct
which describes j,ah getteratio
and financial benefit for th
surrounding area but whic
takes no cognizance of th
physical effect that the ecnte
would have on that area.
It is also believed that th
Federal Government must coot
ply with an executive Ordc
(Continued on page 3)
The ito:ard of lnirectors of the
Calvertorn Citizens Association
has voted to join the Maryland
National Capital Park and Plan-
ning Conimission and Ptince
Georges County in their suit to
oppose construction of the pro-
posed Law f{nforcenrent Train-
ing Center on federally-owned
land that is currently part of the
2,000 acre Department of Agri-
culture Research Farm. (See
The OUTLOOK, March. 1972.)
The vote by members present
was overwhclroin?',ly in favor of
the motion that "CCA request
that the . .. Park and Planning
Commission represent it in suit
against the Federal Government
because we are Ci(i7ens of
Prince Georges County and as
such are concerned about
utilization of land within that
County."
Board Member Don
Margolies summed up the
reasons for CC A support of the
suit by noting that "we are in a
time when .. , it' we don't take
stock of the land around us and
see what should he conserved
and that shouldn't be conser-
Ile cotttittancl, "There are
tln,-r who cnratettd that (,Over-
toll ends at 1'c valet Mill Road
and that CCA ahouldn't go past
Powder Mill load (iri its corn-
cern), because what happens
beyond doesn't al(cct Calverton
directly.
"The argument is fallacious
because what happens there
does affect Calverton ... If they
set it precedent by using that
land, that precedent could af-
fect Calverton directly one day.
For that rca',on, the Board
should take a forward--looking
point of view and join the
County in its suit."
Prior to the vote, A INCI'PC
Associate General CcntnseI
David Freisht,at, who happens
to be it Calverton resident.
presented the pertinent facts of
the suit to the hoard at its April
meeting. Fre.ishta.t is Co-
Counscl in the action.
He stated that the primary ob-
jection to the proposed Center
is that General Services Ad-
ministration, which would over-
see construction for the
Treasury Department, has not
ved, we are goine- to he in very complied with the Environmen-
serio?s trouble. Once the land is tal Protection Act enacted by
taken we can never pet it back." Cnna toss -
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CAA to Join tw,-Ai'
Law Training Contor
cause it would complement the
town center of South Laurel.)
(Continued from page 1)
requiring that all new Federal
installations comply with local
master plans.
As presently planned, it has
not. The 500-acre tract east of
the Baltimore-Washington
Parkway and north of Powder
Mill Road has always been
.open space, and the master
plans for the surroundings
areas, South Laurel, Glendale -
Seabrook, Fairland - Beltsville,
and Greenbelt - College Park,
are all based on the Research
Farm's remaining undeveloped.
It is feared that development
of that section of Farm property
would destroy the counted-on
ratio of densley populated area
open space.
(A proposed Government use
of Farm land for a Food and
Drug Administration facility at
the north end of the Farm on
the west side of the parkway is
unopposed by the County be-
stating that a given group wish to intervene (join).
Other area groups that hav
voted to join are the Oaklan
Civic Association, the We:
Laurel Citizens Associatior
and the Isaac Walton Leagut
the Sierra Club is considerin
intervention also.
During the discussion tha
followed Freishtat's presen
tation it was asked whether th
Government has indicated wha
other plans it may have for us
of Farm land. Freishtat an
swered that even though th
County has been told that th
Center will be the only such use
that the assurance has no bin
ding force and that there is nt
master plan on record deter
mining the use of the Farm area
It was also asked whether at
issue in the suit which coult
become more important that
any other might be the right of
state or local government to tel
the Federal Government what i
can or cannot do with its land
The idea was expressed that i
sewage, traffic, and noise local civic groups that wish to r-
generation. WSSC has not gran- join the suit or that the groups
ted GSA a sewer hookup, so can be represented by someone
their intention is either to build of their own choice.
their own treatment plant on (The County sitting as the
the site or connect to the one District Council represents the
presently used by the people and can therefore
Agriculture buildings. represent any citizens group
Park and Planning contends wishing to become party to their
that the first Alternative is un- action by filing a pleading
satisfactory because of the
limited assimilative capacity of
the streams that would be in-
volved. The Center location is
at the top of the watershed area
for several streams that are
tributaries of the Anacostia and
the Patuxant Rivers. Because
the volume and rate of stream
slow is not as great at the heads
of the streams as it is farther
downstream -- they are even dry
during periods of drought -- the
effluent would be nearly un-
diluted as it passed the
numerous parks and recreation
areas below.
Objection to using the facility
presently used by Agriculture is
that it was never designed to
serve the additional 2,000 per-
sons who would be living on the
Training Center site while
studying there.
The increased traffic on the
area road systems, the increased
noise, and the loss of trees ren-
der the planned use incom-
patible with surrounding land
use, the County contends.
tioned in the Government's Freishtat stated that Park and
"Impact Statement" would be Planning is willing to represent
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The Director of Department
of the Treasury's Consolidated
Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center whose expan-
sion is planned on former
Agricultural Research Farm
property addressed members of
Calverton Citizens Association
Board of Directors at the May
board meeting.
William B. Butler opened his
presentation with the remark
that his purpose was not to per-
suade anyone to change his
point of view (the Board had
voted to intervene in the suit
against Treasury and GSA at its
previous meeting).
He stated that despite the
pentling litigation, Treasury is
still committed to the use of the
1 site and that no alternative had
been chosen; therefore, he said,
he wished to acquaint represen-
tatives of surrounding com-
munities with the plans for the
Center and provide background
concerning evolution of the
concept of the consolidated
center.
Butler added that the projec-
ted center will be about as
good a neighbor as possible to
attain ' the zoning objective'
sought by local groups." (The
clear implication was that other
' uses of the Federal land might
result in denser use and less
care for preservation of green
spaces.)
lpt_4 total 50(1-acre site, in-
cluding the 60-acre portion
along the Parkway presently in
use by Secret Service, is a
roughly triangular area houn-
ded by The lialtinnore -
Washington Parkway on the
west, Powder Mill Road on the
cast,' and the proposed Outer
Beltway on the north.,
A rifle and pistol training
Proposed additional con-
struction is the "central struc-
ture," 'Which would be the
education and administration
buildings and the dormitories
to house the 745 students and
50 temporary instructors wt,o
would live on the base.
A permanent staff of about
540 people--average pay range
$13,793 plus 5% with January.
1972 'increase--would probably'
live in the surrounding com-
munities. Those in the GS 7-11
range will be "regular govern-
ment employees" and would
probably be renters ratner titan
buyers, according to Butler.
Permanent administrative and
instructional staff members, GS
12-14, are seen as becoming the
home buyers who would
probably be attracted from out-
side the area.
The service jobs--cafeteria,
maintenance, etc.--will
"hopefully" be hired from the
community rather than attrac-
ted from elsewhere, thus, in
Butlers estimation, providing
jobs for more unskilled or semi-
skilled area residents.
Also to be constructed is a
driving range to teach high-
speed car handling techniques
to trainees. It will have a cir-
cumference of approximately
5600 feet and will necessitate
clearing about 70 acres of what
is now wooded land.
The noise from the range is
not expected to be a "major fac-
tor" since only two or three
cars would use the range at one
time. 100 feet of treed space
would be left as buffer surroun-
ding the range, supplemented by
broad-leaved evergreens which
are better sound absorbers.
range constructed of sand-tilled
concrete block in use for some Concerning
It would be late in 1974
before needs would be more
substantial; fully operating, the
center would need a capacity of'
82.000 gallons a day.
Water, Butler said, can be
furnished by two wells. An
engineering report advises that
sufficiettt water can be found to
provide the requisite 125
gallons per day per person.
.Also part of the site plan is an
artificially-created 20-acre lake
both for aesthetic reasons and
for training. in aquatic-related
activities such as underwater
search and rescue.
Butler emphasized
that aesthetic considerations are
of great importance to the plan-
ning staff of the Center. He says
that the' area is designed to have
a psychological impact on the
trainees. The basic principal of
the Center is the "protection of,
society." thus it will not have a,
'Marine boot camp at-
mosphere."
Butler terms the artists' con-
ceptions as beautiful buildings,
which will be no more than 70
feet tall and located on the
lowest part of the site, as
requested by Park and Planning
so that they can be hidden by
trees.
The planting of additional
trees has been authorized bet-
ween the Parkway and the
facility and will start pending
Parkway widening plans.
f e'
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Other federal agencies v
"pistol. packin' " offic
(Butler is from Texas) were a
interested in improved train
facilities; and as a result o
cost-effectiveness study
Bureau of the Budget, it
concluded that a. consolida
facility was the 1111
economically feasible.
The present site was rhos
Butler stated, because it v
deemed necessary that the Co
ter be near the "seat-of-go:
'ernment" for convenience pi
poses and the property v
already federally owned. '1
recruit program and the Al
(Advanced, In-Servic
Refresher, and Specii
programs require a cents
location to draw on higl
skilled personnel for i
struction.
(When questioned as to t
reasons for ruling out F(
Meade and some federal!
owned land near Gaithersbu
and in Southern Maryla Butler stated that he did n
know the specific objection
Linda Fobs asked him to ft,
nish CCA with copies of t
reports on those sites; to date
has not done so.)
Butler stated that concept of
need for a law enforcement
training center came about after
the assassination of President
John Kennedy. Thus the site
presently in use along the B-W
Parkway was taken over by
Secret Service. (The FBI had
WSSC denial of built a training facility at Quan-
tirnc can he seen through the sewer hookup. Butler states that tiro but said that there was not trees along the Parkway; also in the center can build its own room for the training carried
existence there is a facade plant and treat effluent "to con- on by ocher agencies.)
`simulating a row of buildings form to legal standards." (The
for teaching trainees entrance area now operating, will be ser-
and search techniques.* viced soon by. Department of
Agriculture via a line now un-
der construction which will
handle 20,000 gallons a day.1
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