DESPITE LIMITED PUSH, DOD LIKELY TO CONTINUE INTRODUCING EXEMPTIONS BILL

Despite the military's limited bid to win passage of proposed exemptions to environmental rules in upcoming defense authorization legislation, the Defense Department is expected to continue introducing exemption language in future years because it wants to maintain the appearance that the legislation is necessary, a House source says. The House Armed Services readiness subcommittee April 27 declined to include DOD's controversial package of exemptions to environmental rules in the fiscal year 2007 defense authorization bill, a development that the panel's...