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Article: Oak Ridge, Tenn., Makes Appeal to Develop Energy Department Excess Land.
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- May 31, 2004
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By Bob Fowler, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
May 31--OAK RIDGE, Tenn. -- The city of Oak Ridge, with almost as much turf inside its boundaries as its neighbor Knoxville, is land poor.
That's because Oak Ridge's 800-pound gorilla, the U.S. Department of Energy, owns more than half of the property inside the city limits.
And the situation has spawned some Catch-22-like dilemmas.
Oak Ridge wants some of DOE's Oak Ridge Reservation property that the department says is no longer needed for its mission and has been declared as excess.
The city's request for land is in accordance with a ...