Cost-benefit analysis on Mare Island cemetery gets green light
The action was triggered with the veto override of the National Defense Authorization Act.
Provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2021, which were authored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Mike Thompson, authorize Veterans Affairs to begin the study.
The department has six months to complete the analysis.
“I would like to again thank Rep. Mike Thompson and Sen. Dianne Feinstein for all their legislation since 2018, as well as the Vallejo City Council, the Solano (County) Board of Supervisors, state Sen. Bill Dodd and Assemblyman Tim Grayson, for fighting for the nearly 1,000 veterans and their family members buried at (Mare Island Naval Cemetery) so that they are properly honored in a national shrine just like all our veterans buried in U.S.-owned cemeteries in America and around the world,” wrote Nestor Aliga, a retired Army colonel who has been heading the effort to have the VA tak