[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 82 (Thursday, April 29, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23057-23058]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-10746]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Navy
Notice of Public Hearing and Availability of the Draft
Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for Disposal and Reuse of Naval
Air Station (NAS) Alameda and the Fleet and Industrial Supply Center
(FISC), Alameda Annex and Facility, Alameda, CA
AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DOD.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy has prepared and filed with the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency a DEIS for disposal and reuse of
NAS Alameda and FISC Alameda Annex and Facility. A public hearing will
be held for the purpose of receiving oral and written comments on the
DEIS. Federal, State and local agencies and interested individuals are
invited to be present at the hearing.
DATES: The meeting will be held on May 18, 1999, at 7:00 p.m.
ADDRESSES: Alameda High School, Little Theatre; 2200 Central Avenue;
Alameda, California (at the corner of Central Avenue and Walnut
Street).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Jerry Hemstock (Code 7032JH),
Engineering Field Activity, West, Naval Facilities Engineering Command,
900 Commodore Drive, San Bruno, California, telephone (650) 244-3023,
facsimile (650) 244-3206.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(c) of the
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as implemented by the
Council on Environmental Quality regulations (40 CFR Parts 1500-1508),
the Department
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of the Navy (Navy) has prepared and filed with the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) the DEIS for Disposal and Reuse of NAS Alameda
and FISC Alameda Annex and Facility in Alameda, California. A public
hearing will be held for the purpose of receiving oral and written
comments on the DEIS. Federal, State and local agencies, as well as
interested individuals and organizations are invited to be present or
represented at the hearing.
A Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare the DEIS was published in the
Federal Register on February 22, 1996 (61 FR 36).
Public scoping meeting announcements were published in four local
newspapers: the San Leandro Times on February 29, 1996; the Alameda
Journal on March 1 and 5, 1996; the Oakland Tribune and the Alameda
Times-Star on March 3 and 5, 1996. A public scoping meeting was held on
March 13, 1996 at the Alameda High School Cafeteria, 2200 Central
Avenue, Alameda, California.
The proposed action is the disposal of Navy property for subsequent
reuse and redevelopment, in accordance with the 1990 Defense Base
Closure and Realignment Act, and the 1993 and 1995 Base Realignment and
Closure Commission recommendations. Approximately 1,693 acres (685
hectares) of land (1,102 acres (446 hectares) of dry land and 591 acres
(239 hectares) of submerged land) are available for disposal and are
the focus of this DEIS. NAS Alameda was operationally closed on April
30, 1997 and FISC Alameda Annex and Facility (FISC Alameda) was
operationally closed on September 30, 1998. Approximately 969 acres
(392 hectares) of the total 2,662 acres (1,076 hectares) of dry and
submerged land at NAS Alameda and FISC Alameda are being transferred to
other Federal agencies.
The DEIS evaluates four reuse alternatives: the Reuse Plan
(Preferred Alternative), Seaport Alternative, Residential Alternative
and Reduced Density Alternative. A fifth alternative, no action,
assumes no disposal of property and retention of the property by Navy
in caretaker status. Under the No Action Alternative, the operation of
Miller Elementary School at NAS Alameda would continue through an
existing lease agreement. All other current leases of NAS Alameda
property to the Alameda Reuse and Redevelopment Authority (ARRA) and
FISC Alameda property to the City of Alameda would continue until their
expiration.
The Reuse Plan Alternative is based on the NAS Alameda Community
Reuse Plan (Reuse Plan) that was developed by the ARRA, the Local
Redevelopment Authority. The Reuse Plan envisions a mixed use for the
properties that includes industrial, commercial residential and
community uses within six distinct planning areas. Community uses would
include public parks and open space, schools, a golf course and a
recreational vehicle park. Industrial uses would include office,
marine-related light industry and research and development businesses.
Residential housing would include reuse of existing housing as well as
new construction. Commercial uses would include neighborhood shopping
districts, offices, hotels and a conference facility. No decision on
the proposed action will be made until the NEPA process has been
completed.
Potential impacts evaluated in the DEIS include, but are not
limited to: land use, visual resources, socioeconomics, public
services, utilities, cultural resources, biological resources, geology
and soils, water resources, traffic and circulation, air quality,
noise, and hazardous materials and waste. With two exceptions,
potentially significant impacts under all of the reuse alternatives can
be mitigated to nonsignificant levels. Potentially significant but
mitigable impacts include: traffic impacts on-site, at key local
intersections and on some roadway and freeway segments under all
alternatives; traffic impacts on the Webster/Posey Tubes under the
Reuse Plan Alternative; and air quality impacts at two local
intersections under the Reuse Plan, Seaport, and Residential
Alternatives where carbon monoxide concentrations would exceed Federal
and State standards. The two significant impacts that cannot be
mitigated are visual impacts from cargo cranes and port facilities
under the Seaport Alternative that would disrupt existing views, and
increased predation of the endangered California least tern under the
Seaport and Residential Alternatives. The DEIS has been distributed to
affected Federal, State and local agencies and other interested
parties. In addition, copies of the DEIS are available for review at
the Alameda Public Library (Main Library, West End Branch and Bay Farm
Island Branch) and the Oakland Public Library (Main Library and
Eastmont Branch).
A public hearing will be held to inform the public of the DEIS
findings and to solicit and receive oral and written comments. The
hearing will be held at 7:00 p.m. on May 18, 1999, at the Alameda High
School, Little Theatre, 2200 Central Avenue, Alameda, California (at
the corner of Central Avenue and Walnut Street). Federal, State and
local agencies and interested parties are invited to be present at the
hearing. Oral comments will be heard and transcribed by a court
recorder; written comments are also requested to ensure accuracy of the
record. All comments, both oral and written, will become part of the
official record. In the interest of available time, each speaker will
be asked to limit oral comments to three minutes. Longer comments
should be summarized at the public hearing and submitted in writing
either at the hearing or mailed to Mr. Jerry Hemstock at the address
given above. Written comments are requested not later than June 1,
1999.
Dated: April 19, 1999.
Pamela A. Holden,
Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Navy,
Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-10746 Filed 4-28-99; 8:45 am]
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