Eastern Shore Group Sues U.S. Over Combat Training Center

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A conservation group based on Maryland's Eastern Shore has accused the federal government in a lawsuit of withholding information on how their rural county became the preferred site for a controversial combat training center to be funded in part with $70 million in stimulus funds.

Filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the lawsuit escalates an increasingly contentious battle between the federal government and local residents over a plan to locate the State Department's Foreign Affairs Security Training Center (FASTC) on 2,000 acres of farmland adjacent to a state park.

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Eastern Shore Group Sues U.S. Over Combat Training Center

"They are hiding the decision-making process that has gone into directing FASTC to Ruthsburg and putting citizens at an impossible disadvantage when we try to have input into th...

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