Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Naval Base Coronado Coastal Campus and To Announce Public Scoping Meetings, 38781-38782 [2012-15979]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Navy
Notice of Intent To Prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement for
the Proposed Naval Base Coronado
Coastal Campus and To Announce
Public Scoping Meetings
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Department of the Navy, DoD.
Notice.
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SUMMARY:
Pursuant to Section 102(2)(c)
of the National Environmental Policy
Act (NEPA) of 1969, as implemented by
the Council on Environmental Quality
Regulations, the Department of the Navy
(DoN) announces its intent to prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
to evaluate the potential environmental
effects of developing an academic
campus on Naval Base Coronado (NBC)
to support the current and future
operational readiness of personnel with
the Naval Special Warfare Command
(NSWC). The proposed campus would
include a mix of instructional and
administrative facilities that would
provide for indoor classroom and
tactical training instruction, and
equipment use, maintenance, and
storage. Specific proposed actions
within the Coastal Campus proposal are:
(1) Evaluation of current land use and
available facilities; (2) augmentation by
design and construction of new facilities
to support logistics, equipment use and
maintenance training, classroom and
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tactical skills instruction, storage, and
administration; and, (3) design and
build of related site improvements that
may include upgraded utilities, fencing,
roads, and parking. An EIS is
considered the appropriate document
for comprehensively analyzing the
potential environmental impacts of
implementing this proposed action.
Dates and Addresses: DoN is
initiating a 30-day public scoping
process to identify community interests
and specific issues to be addressed in
the EIS. This public scoping process
starts with the publication of this Notice
of Intent (NOI). Two public scoping
meetings will be held to receive oral
and/or written comments on issues to be
addressed in the EIS:
1. Tuesday, July 17, 2012, 6:00 p.m.
to 8:00 p.m., Marina Vista Community
Center, 1075 Eighth Street, Imperial
Beach, California, 91932.
2. Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 6:00
p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Winn Room,
Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange
Avenue, Coronado, California, 92118.
Additional information concerning
meeting times and locations is available
on the EIS Web site at
www.nbccoastalcampuseis.com. Public
scoping meeting dates, times, and
locations are also being announced in
the local news media, including a local
Spanish language newspaper.
Public scoping meetings will include
open house sessions, with information
stations staffed by the DoN
representatives. Comments, both written
and oral, will be collected at each of the
two public scoping meetings, and
written comments may also be made
electronically on the project Web site.
Spanish translation will be available at
the public meetings and the project Web
site accommodates Spanish language
users.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Naval Base Coronado Coastal Campus
EIS Project Manager, Attn: Ms. Teresa
Bresler, 2730 McKean Street, Bldg 291,
San Diego, California 92136.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NSWC is
the maritime component of United
States Special Operations Command
(USSOCOM). Based at NAB Coronado,
California, NSWC’s mission is to
organize, train, man, equip, educate,
sustain, maintain combat readiness, and
deploy Naval Special Warfare (NSW)
forces to carry out special operations
missions worldwide. NSW forces
operate independently or in conjunction
with other special operations forces
(SOF), joint forces, allied units, and
coalition forces.
NSWC currently conducts
administrative and extensive logistics
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support, equipment use and
maintenance training and classroom and
tactical skills instruction on the Silver
Strand Training Complex-North (SSTC–
N) and Silver Strand Training Complex
South (SSTC–S), Naval Amphibious
Base (NAB) Coronado, Naval Air Station
North Island (NASNI), and Naval
Outlying Landing Field Imperial Beach
(NOLFIB), and Camp Michael Monsoor.
Although all of the facilities currently
used by NSWC are located on
components of NBC, they are overutilized as well as widely dispersed and
not conveniently co-located.
To support Congressionally-mandated
growth of NSWC and to meet its current
and anticipated mission requirements,
the DoN is proposing a Coastal Campus
at NBC. The proposed Coastal Campus
would support future operational
readiness by augmenting available
NSWC facilities and reducing
fragmentation and space deficiencies,
while providing an integrated campus
that accommodates primacy and
privacy, characteristics of learning
required for the development of these
skill sets.
The proposed Coastal Campus would
augment the current facilities used by
NSWC. Specific proposed actions
within the Coastal Campus proposal are
as follows.
(1) Evaluation of current land use and
available facilities.
(2) Augmentation by design and
construction of new facilities to support
logistics, equipment use and
maintenance training, classroom and
tactical skills instruction, storage, and
administration.
(3) Design and build of related site
improvements that may including
utilities, fencing, roads, and parking.
Due to the functional linkages and the
geographic proximity of the
components, the proposed Coastal
Campus could be sited at SSTC–S,
SSTC–N including NAB Coronado,
NASNI, or NOLFIB, or a combination of
these locations, all within the footprint
of NBC.
Purpose and Need for the Action: The
Global War on Terror has resulted in
Congressionally-mandated personnel
growth and increased training and
operational readiness requirements for
NSWC. However, current NSWC
operational support, classroom and
tactical skills instruction and
administrative facilities, primarily
located at NAB Coronado, are
inadequate to meet existing and future
mission requirements. Moreover,
expansion potential at this location is
limited. To accommodate NSWC’s
projected growth requires additional
logistics and operational support
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buildings, classrooms, storage and
administrative facilities.
Accordingly, the purpose of the
Proposed Action is to provide adequate
facilities to support growth of NSWC
and to maintain the required levels of
operational readiness of special warfare
forces, as mandated by Title 10 of U.S.C.
Section 167 and Section 5062. The need
for the proposed action is the lack of
sufficient facilities and space to support
NSWC’s administrative, logistics, and
classroom and tactical instruction
functions. The Proposed Action would
meet this need by optimizing both
facilities and use of space, including
synchronistic site improvements, within
the existing NBC footprint. This would
allow NSWC to support fluctuating
organizational structure and mandated
mission requirements.
The specific arrangement of built
assets, number of buildings and
required space would be developed and
refined during the NEPA process based
on scoping, impacts analysis and results
of resource surveys. The DoN proposes
25 projects on NBC over a period of
approximately ten years. Each of these
projects would be refined as they are
studied and evaluated during the
Coastal Campus EIS process. The
Coastal Campus EIS, when completed,
would provide an analytic baseline from
which each successive NSWC project
may be optimally designed in terms of
land use, facilities and infrastructure,
and impacts to resources found within
the study area.
Alternatives to be Considered: The
EIS proposes to address four
alternatives, including the No Action
Alternative. The alternatives have been
designed to study land use patterns,
existing infrastructure and resource
impacts, as an analytical baseline for
receipt of future NSWC Military
Construction (MILCON) Program
projects. The alternatives would
include:
(1) Alternative 1 (SSTC–S Alternative)
consists of:
Æ Consolidation of the necessary
NSWC facilities to one location on the
northern half of SSTC–S.
Æ Design and construction of
logistical support buildings, equipment
use and maintenance training facilities,
classroom and tactical skills instruction
buildings, storage and administrative
facilities, utilities, fencing, roads, and
parking.
Æ Construction of a new entry
controlled point providing immediate
access to SSTC–S from State Route 75,
utilizing sustainable design for all
facilities as is practicable.
(2) Alternative 2 (SSTC–S Design II
expanded footprint Alternative) would
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include all of the components of
Alternative 1, but the design footprint
would increase by expanding the
footprint down to the southern fence
line of the SSTC–S boundary.
(3) Alternative 3 (Multi-Installation
Alternative) would site necessary NSWC
facilities at more than one location to
include NAB Coronado, NASNI,
NOLFIB, and SSTC–S incorporating
sustainable design into all facilities as is
practicable.
(4) Alternative 4 (No Action
Alternative) would maintain existing
land uses and training facilities as
currently utilized at NBC. No new
improvements would occur. Current
programmed levels of use (type, tempo,
location), including requirements for
planned force growth, would continue.
As a result, NSWC would continue to
have limited space for current and
future training support, as well as an
inability to cope with Congressionallymandated expanding training needs.
Without consolidation of classroom and
support facilities, NSWC personnel
would continue to transit between
SSTC–N/NAB Coronado, SSTC–S, and
NOLFIB. This would continue
inefficiency and fragmentation of
training and increased expenses, and
the environmental consequences would
persist (e.g., air emissions and energy
consumption of vehicle miles traveled).
By limiting facilities and land use
support to accommodate NSWC growth
and expansion, Alternative 4—No
Action Alternative would not achieve
the mission of NSWC; however, it will
be studied as a baseline of current land
and facilities use.
Environmental Issues and Resources
to be Examined: Environmental issues
that will be addressed in the EIS will
include, but are not limited to: Air
quality, biological resources (including
threatened and endangered species),
cultural resources (including historic
properties and archaeological
resources), geology and soils, hazardous
materials and hazardous waste
management, health and safety, noise,
visual resources, coastal resources, land
use, recreation, socioeconomics
(including environmental justice and
protection of children), transportation
and circulation, water resources, and
public access. Measures that would
avoid or mitigate environmental effects
will also be analyzed. Additionally, the
DoN will undertake any consultations
required by the Endangered Species Act,
Coastal Zone Management Act, National
Historic Preservation Act, Clean Water
Act, and any other applicable law or
regulation.
Submitting Comments: The DoN
encourages interested persons to submit
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comments concerning the alternatives
proposed for study and environmental
impacts to be analyzed. Federal, State
and local agencies, Tribal governments,
and interested persons are encouraged
to provide oral and/or written
comments to the DoN to identify
specific environmental issues or topics
of environmental concern that the DoN
should consider when developing the
Draft EIS. The DoN will prepare the
Draft EIS, incorporating issues
identified by the commenting public.
All comments received, whether
written, oral, on-line, at the public
scoping meetings or provided to the
DoN during the public scoping period,
will receive consideration during Draft
EIS preparation.
Written comments on the scope of the
EIS should be postmarked no later than
July 30, 2012. Comments may be mailed
to the EIS Project Manager (Attn: Ms.
Teresa Bresler), 2730 McKean Street,
Bldg. 291, San Diego, California, 92136.
Comments may also be submitted via
the EIS Web site at
www.nbccoastalcampuseis.com.
Dated: June 19, 2012.
L.R. Almand,
Office of the Judge Advocate General, U.S.
Navy, Alternate Federal Register Liaison
Officer.
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The Department of the Navy
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Navy
Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for
the Proposed Naval Base Coronado Coastal Campus and To Announce Public
Scoping Meetings
AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as implemented by the Council on
Environmental Quality Regulations, the Department of the Navy (DoN)
announces its intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
to evaluate the potential environmental effects of developing an
academic campus on Naval Base Coronado (NBC) to support the current and
future operational readiness of personnel with the Naval Special
Warfare Command (NSWC). The proposed campus would include a mix of
instructional and administrative facilities that would provide for
indoor classroom and tactical training instruction, and equipment use,
maintenance, and storage. Specific proposed actions within the Coastal
Campus proposal are: (1) Evaluation of current land use and available
facilities; (2) augmentation by design and construction of new
facilities to support logistics, equipment use and maintenance
training, classroom and tactical skills instruction, storage, and
administration; and, (3) design and build of related site improvements
that may include upgraded utilities, fencing, roads, and parking. An
EIS is considered the appropriate document for comprehensively
analyzing the potential environmental impacts of implementing this
proposed action.
Dates and Addresses: DoN is initiating a 30-day public scoping
process to identify community interests and specific issues to be
addressed in the EIS. This public scoping process starts with the
publication of this Notice of Intent (NOI). Two public scoping meetings
will be held to receive oral and/or written comments on issues to be
addressed in the EIS:
1. Tuesday, July 17, 2012, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Marina Vista
Community Center, 1075 Eighth Street, Imperial Beach, California,
91932.
2. Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Winn Room,
Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, California,
92118.
Additional information concerning meeting times and locations is
available on the EIS Web site at www.nbccoastalcampuseis.com. Public
scoping meeting dates, times, and locations are also being announced in
the local news media, including a local Spanish language newspaper.
Public scoping meetings will include open house sessions, with
information stations staffed by the DoN representatives. Comments, both
written and oral, will be collected at each of the two public scoping
meetings, and written comments may also be made electronically on the
project Web site. Spanish translation will be available at the public
meetings and the project Web site accommodates Spanish language users.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Naval Base Coronado Coastal Campus EIS
Project Manager, Attn: Ms. Teresa Bresler, 2730 McKean Street, Bldg
291, San Diego, California 92136.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NSWC is the maritime component of United
States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). Based at NAB Coronado,
California, NSWC's mission is to organize, train, man, equip, educate,
sustain, maintain combat readiness, and deploy Naval Special Warfare
(NSW) forces to carry out special operations missions worldwide. NSW
forces operate independently or in conjunction with other special
operations forces (SOF), joint forces, allied units, and coalition
forces.
NSWC currently conducts administrative and extensive logistics
support, equipment use and maintenance training and classroom and
tactical skills instruction on the Silver Strand Training Complex-North
(SSTC-N) and Silver Strand Training Complex South (SSTC-S), Naval
Amphibious Base (NAB) Coronado, Naval Air Station North Island (NASNI),
and Naval Outlying Landing Field Imperial Beach (NOLFIB), and Camp
Michael Monsoor. Although all of the facilities currently used by NSWC
are located on components of NBC, they are over-utilized as well as
widely dispersed and not conveniently co-located.
To support Congressionally-mandated growth of NSWC and to meet its
current and anticipated mission requirements, the DoN is proposing a
Coastal Campus at NBC. The proposed Coastal Campus would support future
operational readiness by augmenting available NSWC facilities and
reducing fragmentation and space deficiencies, while providing an
integrated campus that accommodates primacy and privacy,
characteristics of learning required for the development of these skill
sets.
The proposed Coastal Campus would augment the current facilities
used by NSWC. Specific proposed actions within the Coastal Campus
proposal are as follows.
(1) Evaluation of current land use and available facilities.
(2) Augmentation by design and construction of new facilities to
support logistics, equipment use and maintenance training, classroom
and tactical skills instruction, storage, and administration.
(3) Design and build of related site improvements that may
including utilities, fencing, roads, and parking. Due to the functional
linkages and the geographic proximity of the components, the proposed
Coastal Campus could be sited at SSTC-S, SSTC-N including NAB Coronado,
NASNI, or NOLFIB, or a combination of these locations, all within the
footprint of NBC.
Purpose and Need for the Action: The Global War on Terror has
resulted in Congressionally-mandated personnel growth and increased
training and operational readiness requirements for NSWC. However,
current NSWC operational support, classroom and tactical skills
instruction and administrative facilities, primarily located at NAB
Coronado, are inadequate to meet existing and future mission
requirements. Moreover, expansion potential at this location is
limited. To accommodate NSWC's projected growth requires additional
logistics and operational support
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buildings, classrooms, storage and administrative facilities.
Accordingly, the purpose of the Proposed Action is to provide
adequate facilities to support growth of NSWC and to maintain the
required levels of operational readiness of special warfare forces, as
mandated by Title 10 of U.S.C. Section 167 and Section 5062. The need
for the proposed action is the lack of sufficient facilities and space
to support NSWC's administrative, logistics, and classroom and tactical
instruction functions. The Proposed Action would meet this need by
optimizing both facilities and use of space, including synchronistic
site improvements, within the existing NBC footprint. This would allow
NSWC to support fluctuating organizational structure and mandated
mission requirements.
The specific arrangement of built assets, number of buildings and
required space would be developed and refined during the NEPA process
based on scoping, impacts analysis and results of resource surveys. The
DoN proposes 25 projects on NBC over a period of approximately ten
years. Each of these projects would be refined as they are studied and
evaluated during the Coastal Campus EIS process. The Coastal Campus
EIS, when completed, would provide an analytic baseline from which each
successive NSWC project may be optimally designed in terms of land use,
facilities and infrastructure, and impacts to resources found within
the study area.
Alternatives to be Considered: The EIS proposes to address four
alternatives, including the No Action Alternative. The alternatives
have been designed to study land use patterns, existing infrastructure
and resource impacts, as an analytical baseline for receipt of future
NSWC Military Construction (MILCON) Program projects. The alternatives
would include:
(1) Alternative 1 (SSTC-S Alternative) consists of:
[cir] Consolidation of the necessary NSWC facilities to one
location on the northern half of SSTC-S.
[cir] Design and construction of logistical support buildings,
equipment use and maintenance training facilities, classroom and
tactical skills instruction buildings, storage and administrative
facilities, utilities, fencing, roads, and parking.
[cir] Construction of a new entry controlled point providing
immediate access to SSTC-S from State Route 75, utilizing sustainable
design for all facilities as is practicable.
(2) Alternative 2 (SSTC-S Design II expanded footprint Alternative)
would include all of the components of Alternative 1, but the design
footprint would increase by expanding the footprint down to the
southern fence line of the SSTC-S boundary.
(3) Alternative 3 (Multi-Installation Alternative) would site
necessary NSWC facilities at more than one location to include NAB
Coronado, NASNI, NOLFIB, and SSTC-S incorporating sustainable design
into all facilities as is practicable.
(4) Alternative 4 (No Action Alternative) would maintain existing
land uses and training facilities as currently utilized at NBC. No new
improvements would occur. Current programmed levels of use (type,
tempo, location), including requirements for planned force growth,
would continue. As a result, NSWC would continue to have limited space
for current and future training support, as well as an inability to
cope with Congressionally-mandated expanding training needs. Without
consolidation of classroom and support facilities, NSWC personnel would
continue to transit between SSTC-N/NAB Coronado, SSTC-S, and NOLFIB.
This would continue inefficiency and fragmentation of training and
increased expenses, and the environmental consequences would persist
(e.g., air emissions and energy consumption of vehicle miles traveled).
By limiting facilities and land use support to accommodate NSWC growth
and expansion, Alternative 4--No Action Alternative would not achieve
the mission of NSWC; however, it will be studied as a baseline of
current land and facilities use.
Environmental Issues and Resources to be Examined: Environmental
issues that will be addressed in the EIS will include, but are not
limited to: Air quality, biological resources (including threatened and
endangered species), cultural resources (including historic properties
and archaeological resources), geology and soils, hazardous materials
and hazardous waste management, health and safety, noise, visual
resources, coastal resources, land use, recreation, socioeconomics
(including environmental justice and protection of children),
transportation and circulation, water resources, and public access.
Measures that would avoid or mitigate environmental effects will also
be analyzed. Additionally, the DoN will undertake any consultations
required by the Endangered Species Act, Coastal Zone Management Act,
National Historic Preservation Act, Clean Water Act, and any other
applicable law or regulation.
Submitting Comments: The DoN encourages interested persons to
submit comments concerning the alternatives proposed for study and
environmental impacts to be analyzed. Federal, State and local
agencies, Tribal governments, and interested persons are encouraged to
provide oral and/or written comments to the DoN to identify specific
environmental issues or topics of environmental concern that the DoN
should consider when developing the Draft EIS. The DoN will prepare the
Draft EIS, incorporating issues identified by the commenting public.
All comments received, whether written, oral, on-line, at the public
scoping meetings or provided to the DoN during the public scoping
period, will receive consideration during Draft EIS preparation.
Written comments on the scope of the EIS should be postmarked no
later than July 30, 2012. Comments may be mailed to the EIS Project
Manager (Attn: Ms. Teresa Bresler), 2730 McKean Street, Bldg. 291, San
Diego, California, 92136. Comments may also be submitted via the EIS
Web site at www.nbccoastalcampuseis.com.
Dated: June 19, 2012.
L.R. Almand,
Office of the Judge Advocate General, U.S. Navy, Alternate Federal
Register Liaison Officer.
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