Training expansion on hold for B-1, B-52 bombers

An Air Force plan to more than triple the area that can be used in training exercises for the Dakotas-based B-1 and B-52 bombers is still undergoing an environmental review nearly a year after the final report was expected. Officials at Ellsworth Air Force Base near Rapid City, S.D., are in the process of holding phone meetings with Native American tribes throughout the area to talk about sensitive cultural, historic and religious properties on tribal lands.

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