鹿児島県、馬毛島ボーリング調査許可　米軍機訓練移転先の自衛隊基地

　鹿児島県は２７日、米軍空母艦載機の離着陸訓練（ＦＣＬＰ）の移転先として同県西之表市の馬毛島で防衛省が計画する自衛隊基地の建設に関し、港湾施設を造るための海上ボーリング調査を許可したと発表した。防衛省はこれを受け、来月にも調査を始める方針。
　許可に先立ち、塩田康一知事は同日午前の県議会で「法令に沿って審査した結果、本日許可することとした」と表明。同時に「国には十分な説明責任を果たす必要がある」と述べた。（2020/11/27-19:05）

Kagoshima Governor Koichi Shiota said Friday that the prefectural government will approve the Japanese Defense Ministry's plan to conduct a drilling survey off an island in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kagoshima for the construction of a Self-Defense Forces base.
   The survey is slated to be carried out off the island of Mageshima, which belongs to the city of Nishinoomote, in preparation for building a port facility as part of the new base plan.
   The envisaged base will host field carrier landing practice, or FCLP, for U.S. carrier-borne aircraft. The ministry plans to change the site for the practice to Mageshima from Iwoto, also known as Iwojima, a remote Tokyo island in the Pacific, based on a Japan-U.S. agreement.
   While giving Kagoshima's green light for the drilling survey, Shiota told the day's meeting of the prefectural assembly that the central government "needs to fulfill its responsibility to give a sufficient explanation on the matter."
   On Nov. 2, Shunsuke Yaita, mayor of Nishinoomote, an island city, handed to the ministry a written opinion saying that the possibility of the drilling survey affecting the fishing grounds environment cannot be ruled out.