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Navy Rejects Latest Effort to Revive Plan for Airport at El Toro, Calif., Base.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2003

By Jeff Rowe, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 13--The Navy Thursday discounted last-minute efforts by Los Angeles to resurrect a commercial-airport plan for El Toro. The Navy is working to auction land at the old air base as part of the Great Park plan, said Lt. Cmdr.

Pauline Storum, a spokeswoman for the Navy in Washington.

"The Navy has no plans to change its course of action," Storum said. She added that the Department of Transportation "has no jurisdiction over the property."

Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Newport Beach, said the Navy has told him the same thing. Cox also said the federal Transportation Department told him it is referring all inquiries on El Toro to the Department of...

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