「辺野古」知事決定取り消し　軟弱地盤の設計変更、承認を勧告―斉藤国交相

　米軍普天間飛行場（沖縄県宜野湾市）の名護市辺野古への移設をめぐり、斉藤鉄夫国土交通相は８日、工事の設計変更を不承認とした昨年１１月の玉城デニー知事の処分を取り消す裁決を出した。併せて、２０日までに承認するよう県に勧告した。県内移設阻止を掲げる県は、これを不服として対抗措置を改めて講じる見通しだ。
　設計変更は埋め立て海域の海底で軟弱地盤が見つかったことに伴う。防衛省沖縄防衛局は２０２０年４月、地盤改良のため設計変更を沖縄県に申請。県は２１年１１月、「絶滅危惧種ジュゴンの生態系への影響が十分検討されていない」などとして承認しなかった。（2022/04/08-17:38）

Japanese land minister Tetsuo Saito on Friday revoked Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki's decision not to approve the central government's design changes for a plan to relocate a U.S. military base within the southern prefecture.
   Saito gave the prefectural government until April 20 to approve the design changes.
   Okinawa is expected to take measures to counter the revocation, aiming to block the plan to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air station in a heavily populated area in the city of Ginowan to the Henoko coastal district in the city of Nago.
   In April 2020, the Defense Ministry's Okinawa Defense Bureau filed an application with the prefectural government for the design changes for ground improvements following the discovery of loose ground in the seabed of waters where landfill work was conducted for the relocation.
   In November last year, Tamaki declined to approve the application, citing the central government's failure to give due consideration to the impact of the design changes on the ecosystem of endangered dugongs.