[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 131 (Wednesday, July 9, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36784-36785]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-17943]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Navy
Notice of Availability of Addendum to the Final Environmental
Impact Statement for Realignment of Marine Corps Base, Camp LeJeune, NC
SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy (DON) has prepared an Addendum to
the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Expansion and
Realignment of Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, which
provides updated information concerning the environmental impacts
associated with the establishment of special use airspace restrictions
over the Greater Sandy Run Area (GSRA), Camp Lejeune. DON solicits
public participation and written comment on the Addendum. The comment
period will close on August 11, 1997.
ADDENDUM INFORMATION: Pursuant to Sec. 102(2) of the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 and the Council on
Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations implementing NEPA procedures
(40 CFR Secs. 1500-1508), DON prepared and published a Final
Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) analyzing the impacts associated
with the proposal to expand and realign Marine Corps Base, Camp
Lejeune, North Carolina. This expansion was accomplished in 1992 via
the purchase of 41,000 plus acres known as the Greater Sandy Run Area
(GSRA).
The FEIS addressed special use airspace restrictions to be placed
over the GSRA. The Department of the Navy decided to publish this
Addendum to the Final Environmental Impact Statement to further address
the environmental concerns and impacts on current land uses from the
establishment of approximately 50 square miles of special use airspace
over the GSRA. Although use of an addendum to an FEIS is neither
required by NEPA nor directed by CEQ Regulations, DON determined that
this addendum will serve as a vehicle for a more thorough discussion of
matters relating to the establishment of a special use airspace over
the GSRA, and will thereby further the purposes of NEPA. The addendum
is intended to provide the public with notification of this
information. The addendum incorporates the Draft and Final
Environmental Impact Statements. The addendum provides updated
information concerning environmental impacts, but not information that
is so significant as to require a supplemental environmental impact
statement. As the addendum does not present new circumstances or new
information relevant to significant environmental impacts of the
proposed action or alternatives, it is not intended as a supplement to
the Final Environmental Impact Statement, as defined in Sec. 1502.9(c)
of the CEQ Regulations.
The majority of the information contained in the Addendum is taken
from reports, studies and analyses referenced in the FEIS. The Addendum
clarifies and updates information concerning the cumulative effects
analysis used in the FEIS, provides the second part of a two part noise
study referenced in the FEIS, and provides the public with an
opportunity to review and comment on this information. An outline of
the issues addressed in the Addendum is set out below.
Outline
A. Information on Proposal To Establish Special Use Airspace
B. Explanation of Independent Utility of GSRA Restricted Airspace
C. Description of the Existing Land Uses and Classifications in and
near the GSRA
D. Noise Sensitive Areas That May Be Overflown
1. Maps
2. Within the GSRA
3. Off-site
E. Wildlife and Wildlife Areas
F. Noise Impacts from Aircraft
G. Summary of Consistency Determination
H. Cumulative Effects Analysis
1. Finality
2. Update
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3. Additional Quantitative Noise Analysis
4. Quantitative Noise Analysis for the Core and Cherry I MOAs
I. MCAS New River Instrument Landing System.
J. Camp Davis Operations
K. Environmental Justice In Minority Populations and Low-Income
Populations
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR TO OBTAIN A COPY OF THE ADDENDUM: Contact
Major Craig Jensen at (910) 451-9517. Written comments should be sent
to Major Craig Jensen, Eastern Area Counsel Office, 67 Virginia Dare
Dr., Suite 206, Camp Lejeune, NC 28547, and must be received by 4:00
pm, August 11, 1997.
Dated: July 3, 1997.
D.E. Koenig, Jr.,
LCDR, JAGC, USN, Alternate Federal Register Liaision Officer.
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