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Federal agencies to move some jobs to Shenandoah Valley
The following info is from the Herald Mail of 12/27 at http://www.herald-mail.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=154988&format=html
" Both the FBI and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are moving jobs to the Shenandoah Valley - a picturesque locale that happens to be just outside Washington's "blast zone."
In the event of a nuclear explosion in the capital, Winchester's location about 70 miles from Washington would put it outside the fallout zone, often estimated at 50 miles. At the same time, employees could easily travel to Washington when they need to.
The FBI chose Winchester (Virginia), a city of 26,000, over other towns of similar distance from Washington for a big centralized archive that by 2009 will employ at least 1,200 people, many of them now working in Washington and Baltimore. Some employees already are working in a temporary facility outside Winchester.
Meanwhile, FEMA has chosen a farm just outside town for an operations center that will employ 700 people. Local officials say it will include positions moved from Mount Weather, the government's hilltop emergency center on the border of Loudoun and Clarke counties.
The trend is happening elsewhere in the region as well. Outside Martinsburg, W.Va., the Coast Guard is building a new National Maritime Center, a 200-person office now located in Arlington. In Washington County, near Hagerstown, the government is redeveloping the vacant Fort Ritchie to house national security jobs."
I hadn't heard about the FEMA facility going to Frederick Co., Virgina before.
The following info is from the Herald Mail of 12/27 at http://www.herald-mail.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=154988&format=html
" Both the FBI and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are moving jobs to the Shenandoah Valley - a picturesque locale that happens to be just outside Washington's "blast zone."
In the event of a nuclear explosion in the capital, Winchester's location about 70 miles from Washington would put it outside the fallout zone, often estimated at 50 miles. At the same time, employees could easily travel to Washington when they need to.
The FBI chose Winchester (Virginia), a city of 26,000, over other towns of similar distance from Washington for a big centralized archive that by 2009 will employ at least 1,200 people, many of them now working in Washington and Baltimore. Some employees already are working in a temporary facility outside Winchester.
Meanwhile, FEMA has chosen a farm just outside town for an operations center that will employ 700 people. Local officials say it will include positions moved from Mount Weather, the government's hilltop emergency center on the border of Loudoun and Clarke counties.
The trend is happening elsewhere in the region as well. Outside Martinsburg, W.Va., the Coast Guard is building a new National Maritime Center, a 200-person office now located in Arlington. In Washington County, near Hagerstown, the government is redeveloping the vacant Fort Ritchie to house national security jobs."
I hadn't heard about the FEMA facility going to Frederick Co., Virgina before.
