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Increasing costs at other BRAC sites
The Fort Monmouth, N.J., closing is not the only 2005 decision by the Base Realignment and Closure commission that has experienced a cost increase in the last two years.

A random sampling of the 2008 federal budget requests submitted by the various military branches for 13 other BRAC decisions shows a more than $1.8 billion increase in the one-time cost estimates of closing or realigning installations.

Those increases range from $16 million in the cost to realign March Air Reserve Base, Calif., to a $776 million hike in the cost of realigning Fort Knox, Ky., and Fort McCoy, Wis.

From least to most expensive, the cost increases are:

• $16 million to realign March Air Reserve Base from $5.2 million to $21.1 million.

• $18 million to close Navy Supply Corps School in Athens, Ga., from $23.8 million to $41.9 million.

• $21 million to realign Bradley International Airport Air Guard Station, Conn.; Barnes Air Guard Station, Mass.; Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich.; Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., and Martin State Air Guard Base, Md., from $14.3 million to $35.4 million.

• $24 million to realign Naval Station Newport, R.I., from $11.8 million to $35.5 million.

• $31 million to close Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, Calif., from $14 million to $45 million.

• $40.4 million to realign Otis Air National Guard Base, Mass.; Lambert-St. Louis International Airport Air Guard Station, Mo., and Atlantic City Air Guard Station, N.J., from $53.7 million to $94.1 million.

• $40.3 million to realign Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D., from $104.2 million to $144.5 million.

• $53 million to close Naval Air Station Brunswick, Maine, from $193.1 million to $246 million.

• $93.6 million to close Fort Gillem, Ga., from $56.8 million to $150.4 million.

• $186 million to realign Fort Hood, Texas, from $436 million to $621.7 million.

• $208.6 million to close Fort Monroe, Va., from $72.4 million to $281 million.

• $267 million to close Brooks City Base, Texas, from $325.3 million to $592.3 million.

• $726.9 million to realign Fort Knox, Ky., and Fort McCoy, Wis., from $773.1 million to $1.5 billion.