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- # Economic and Environmental Measures
## Overview
This entity is a text segment extracted from a larger document, titled "Economic and Environmental Measures." It spans lines 402 to 403 of the source file and was extracted on January 27, 2026, by an automated system. The segment outlines a set of proposed initiatives aimed at addressing historical grievances through economic development, environmental protection, and public health improvements.
## Context
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## Contents
The text details a four-point commitment to rectify past wrongs by addressing economic, health, safety, and environmental concerns. Specific measures include building a new commercial ferry pier and terminal, creating an artificial reef to support commercial fishing, providing temporary compensation to fishermen, improving road infrastructure, preserving a bioluminescent bay, launching a youth job training program, allocating land for airport runway extension, and commissioning a Public Health Service Study. To ensure implementation, the speaker proposes establishing a Pentagon-led working group to collaborate with the Vieques community on range use and coordination, aiming to prevent the failures of a prior 1983 agreement.
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- Fourth, to meet past wrongs, we will address the economic, health, safety, and environmental concerns that we should have been addressing all along. Measures we will implement include, among other things, development of a new commercial ferry pier and terminal, an artificial reef to create new commercial fishing areas, temporary compensation for fisherman, expanding and improving roads, a bioluminescent bay preservation program, a job training program for young people, providing land to extend the airport runway, and a Public Health Service Study. To ensure these measures are taken – and that the missed opportunities of our 1983 agreement are not repeated – I will ask the Pentagon to establish a working group that will work with Vieques on all questions relating to the use of the range and coordination of these issues.
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