[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 190 (Friday, October 1, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 53364]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-25400]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
Notice of Availability of the National Missile Defense Deployment
Draft Environmental Impact Statement
AGENCY: Ballistic Missile Defense Organization.
ACTION: Notice of Availability.
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SUMMARY: The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) announces
the availability of the National Missile Defense Deployment Draft
Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS). The DEIS assesses the potential
impacts associated with the possible deployment of the NMD system. The
NMD system would be a fixed, land-based, non-nuclear missile defense
system with a land and space-based detection system capable of
responding to limited strategic ballistic missile threats to the United
States from a rogue nation. Potential deployment locations for the NMD
elements include sites in Alaska and North Dakota. In addition, as the
operational requirements are refined other regions may be identified.
PROPOSED ACTION AND ALTERNATIVES: The alternatives considered in the
EIS are the No-Action Alternative and the Proposed Action. A No-Action
Alternative would be a DoD recommendation not to deploy an NMD system
at the time a decision is made but to continue NMD system development
to improve NMD system capabilities. With the Proposed Action
Alternative, a decision would be made to deploy the NMD system and the
NMD element locations would be selected from the range of locations
studied in the EIS.
PUBLIC HEARINGS: Public hearing locations and dates are as follows: (1)
October 26, 6-9 PM; Langdon Activity Center, 516 10th Avenue, Langdon,
North Dakota; (2) October 27, 6-9 PM; Civic Auditorium, 615 1st Avenue
North, Grand Forks, North Dakota; (3) November 1, 6-9 PM; Carlson
Community Activity Center, 2010 2nd Avenue, Fairbanks, Alaska; (4)
November 2, 7-10 PM; Anderson School, 116 West 1st Street, Anderson,
Alaska; (5) November 3, 6-9 PM; Delta High School, School Road, Delta
Junction, Alaska; (6) November 4, 6-9 PM; WestCoast International Inn,
3333 W. International Airport Rd., Anchorage, Alaska; and (7) November
9, 6-9 PM; Days Inn, 2000 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia.
COMMENTS: Comments on the DEIS should be received by November 15, 1999.
Written comments and inquiries of the DEIS should be directed to SMDC-
EN-V (Ms. Julia Hudson), U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command,
PO Box 1500, Huntsville, AL 35807-3801, telephone (256) 955-4822.
Public reading copies of the DEIS will be available for review at the
public libraries within the communities where the public hearings will
be held and at the BMDO internet site at www.acq.osd.mil/bmdo/bmdolink/
html/nmd.html.
Dated: September 24, 1999.
L.M. Bynum,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 99-25400 Filed 9-30-99; 8:45 am]
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