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faith, (2) will not operate to the
disadvantage of such endangered or
threatened species, and (3) is consistent
with the purposes and policies set forth
in section 2 of the ESA.
Dated: September 4, 2012.
P. Michael Payne,
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Office of Protected Resources, National
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provided by nonprofit agencies
employing persons who are blind or
have other severe disabilities.
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On 7/9/2012 (77 FR 40344–40345),
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After consideration of the material
presented to it concerning capability of
qualified nonprofit agencies to provide
the services and impact of the additions
on the current or most recent
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NPA: Professional Contract Services, Inc.,
Austin, TX.
Contracting Activity: Dept of the Army,
W40M Southeast RGNL CONTRG OFC,
Fort Gordon, GA.
Patricia Briscoe,
Deputy Director, Business Operations,
(Pricing and Information Management).
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Navy
Notice of Public Meetings for the Draft
Environmental Impact Statement for
Naval Weapons Systems Training
Facility Boardman, OR
Department of the Navy, DoD.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Pursuant to section 102(2)(c)
of the National Environmental Policy
Act of 1969 and regulations
implemented by the Council on
Environmental Quality (40 Code of
Federal Regulations parts 1500–1508),
the Department of the Navy (DoN) has
prepared and filed with the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency a
Draft Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS) that evaluates the potential
environmental effects associated with
ongoing and proposed DoN and Oregon
National Guard training and testing
activities at Naval Weapons Systems
Training Facility (NWSTF) Boardman,
SUMMARY:
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Oregon to include establishment of new
associated Special Use Airspace (SUA).
The National Guard Bureau and Federal
Aviation Administration are cooperating
agencies for this EIS.
NWSTF Boardman is the principal
regional training range for aviation units
located at Naval Air Station Whidbey
Island and is used for training by
Oregon National Guard units located
throughout the state of Oregon. NWSTF
Boardman also supports training
requirements of the U.S. Air Force
Reserve, and SUA activities for
Department of Defense (DoD)
contractors for unmanned aerial system
testing and training of DoD personnel.
With the filing of the Draft EIS, the
DoN is initiating a 60-day public
comment period and has scheduled two
public meetings to receive comments on
the Draft EIS. This notice announces the
dates and locations of the public
meetings for the Draft EIS and provides
supplementary information.
DATES AND ADDRESSES: The 60-day Draft
EIS public review period will begin
September 7, 2012, and end on
November 6, 2012. The DoN will hold
two public meetings to inform the
public about the proposed action and
the alternatives under consideration,
and to provide an opportunity for the
public to comment on the proposed
action, alternatives, and the adequacy
and accuracy of the analysis in the Draft
EIS. Each of the public meetings will
include an open house information
session, with informational poster
stations staffed by DoN and Oregon
National Guard representatives,
followed by a short presentation and
oral comment opportunity. Federal,
state, and local agencies and officials,
and interested groups and individuals
are encouraged to provide comments in
person at any of the public meetings or
in writing during the public comment
period.
The public meetings will be held at
each location between 5:00 p.m. and
8:00 p.m. on the following dates:
1. Tuesday, September 25, 2012,
Hermiston Conference Center Great
Room, 415 South Highway 395,
Hermiston, Oregon 97838.
2. Wednesday, September 26, 2012,
Port of Morrow Conference Center
Riverfront Room, 2 Marine Drive,
Boardman, Oregon 97818.
Attendees will be able to submit oral
and written comments during the public
meetings. Oral testimony from the
public will be recorded by a court
reporter. In the interest of available
time, and to ensure all who wish to give
an oral statement have the opportunity
to do so, each speaker’s comments will
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be limited to three (3) minutes. Equal
weight will be given to oral and written
statements. Comments may also be
submitted via the U.S. Postal Service or
electronically via the project Web site
provided below. All statements, oral or
written, submitted during the public
review period will become part of the
public record on the Draft EIS and will
be reviewed and acknowledged or
responded to in the Final EIS.
Public meeting details will be
announced in local newspapers.
Additional information is available on
the project Web site at
www.NWSTFBoardmanEIS.com.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Naval Facilities Engineering Command,
Northwest, Attention: Ms. Amy Burt—
NWSTF Boardman EIS Project Manager,
1101 Tautog Circle, Suite 203,
Silverdale, Washington 98315–1101.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A Notice
of Intent to prepare this Draft EIS was
published in the Federal Register on
October 5, 2010 (75 FR 61452). A
separate and additional scoping effort
was conducted to address the
modification of the proposed action to
include establishment of a Military
Operations Area that would join the
current SUA associated with NWSTF
Boardman. The Notice of Intent for the
modification of the proposed action was
published in the Federal Register on
December 27, 2011 (76 FR80910).
The DoN’s proposed action involves
construction and operation of new range
facilities and changes in existing
training and testing activities at NWSTF
Boardman. In general, the proposed
action would increase the types of
training and testing activities and the
number of training events conducted at
NWSTF Boardman; accommodate force
structure changes; and provide
enhancements to training facilities and
activities at NWSTF Boardman and its
associated SUA.
To comply with federal mandates, the
DoN proposes to maintain and enhance
current levels of military readiness
through improvement of training at
NWSTF Boardman, accommodate
possible future increases in training,
and maintenance of the long-term
viability of NWSTF Boardman as a
military training and testing area. The
proposed action is needed to provide a
training environment consisting of
ranges, training areas, and range
instrumentation with the capacity and
capabilities to fully support required
training tasks for military units and
personnel utilizing NWSTF Boardman.
The Draft EIS includes analysis of the
potential environmental impacts of
three alternatives, including the No
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Action Alternative and two action
alternatives. The No Action Alternative
constitutes the current level of baseline
training and testing activities.
Alternative 1 includes all current
training and testing activities; the
establishment and use of an additional
Military Operations Area to the
northeast of existing NWSTF Boardman
SUA; an increase in existing training
activities; new training activities; and
range enhancements and facilities to
meet DoN and Oregon National Guard
training requirements. Alternative 2
includes all elements of Alternative 1
and the implementation of additional
range enhancements, including the
addition of a second (western) convoy
live-fire range, a new range operations
control center, and three mortar training
positions.
Mitigation measures for potential
effects to biological resources are being
coordinated through appropriate
Federal agencies. There are no
Federally-listed species under the
Endangered Species Act present at
NWSTF Boardman, however, the DoN is
conferencing with the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, as appropriate, for
potential impacts to the candidate
species, Washington ground squirrel
(Urocitellus washingtoni).
The Draft EIS was distributed to
Federal, state, and local agencies,
elected officials, and other interested
individuals and organizations. Copies of
the Draft EIS are also available for
public review at the following public
libraries:
1. Multnomah County Central Library,
801 Southwest 10th Avenue, Portland,
Oregon 97205.
2. Boardman Branch of the Oregon
Trail Library District, 200 South Main
Street, Boardman, Oregon 97818.
3. Heppner Branch of the Oregon Trail
Library District, 444 North Main Street,
Heppner, Oregon 97836.
4. Central Branch of the Salem Public
Library, 585 Liberty Street Southeast,
Salem, Oregon 97301.
5. West Salem Branch of the Salem
Public Library, 395 Glen Creek Road
Northwest, Salem, Oregon 97304.
6. Stafford Hansell Government
Center, 915 Southeast Columbia Drive,
Hermiston, Oregon 97838.
Copies of the Draft EIS are also
available for electronic viewing at
www.NWSTFBoardmanEIS.com. A
paper copy of the Executive Summary
or a single compact disc of the Draft EIS
will be made available upon written
request.
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Dated: August 31, 2012.
C.K. Chiappetta
Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate
General’s Corps, U.S. Navy, Federal Register
Liaison Officer.
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FEDERAL REGISTER CITATION OF PREVIOUS
ANNOUNCEMENT: 77 FR 48970, August
15, 2012.
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED TIME AND DATE OF
MEETING AND HEARING: Session I: 1 p.m.–
5 p.m., October 2, 2012; Session II: 6:30
p.m.–9 p.m., October 2, 2012.
CHANGES TO OPEN MEETING AND HEARING:
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety
Board (Board) published a notice in the
Federal Register of August 15, 2012, (77
FR 48970), concerning a two-session
public meeting and hearing on October
2, 2012, at the Knoxville Convention
Center, 701 Henley Street, Knoxville,
Tennessee 37902. The Board changes
that notice as follows: (1) The Board is
postponing the hearing session
concerning nuclear operations at
existing Y–12 defense nuclear facilities,
the effectiveness of the National Nuclear
Security Administration’s oversight for
these activities, and the status of sitewide emergency preparedness. That
session will be rescheduled as a
separate open meeting and hearing at a
time and place to be determined at a
later date; (2) The Board will now limit
the meeting and hearing to receive
testimony regarding factors that could
affect the timely execution and safety of
the Uranium Processing Facility (UPF)
project. These factors include the
Department of Energy (DOE) project
team’s strategy for identifying and
resolving safety issues in a timely
manner, the potential safety impacts of
DOE’s decision to accelerate the
acquisition of select processing
capabilities and defer others to a later
date, and the potential for weaknesses
in technology development to impact
safety; (3) The Board is convening the
meeting and hearing concerning the
UPF project from 1 p.m.–5 p.m. There
will be no evening Session. The date
and place of the meeting and hearing
remains unchanged. The public hearing
portion of this proceeding is authorized
by 42 U.S.C. 2286b.
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Manager, Defense Nuclear Facilities
Safety Board, 625 Indiana Avenue NW.,
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Navy
Notice of Public Meetings for the Draft Environmental Impact
Statement for Naval Weapons Systems Training Facility Boardman, OR
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 of 1969 and regulations implemented by the Council on
Environmental Quality (40 Code of Federal Regulations parts 1500-1508),
the Department of the Navy (DoN) has prepared and filed with the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency a Draft Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS) that evaluates the potential environmental effects associated
with ongoing and proposed DoN and Oregon National Guard training and
testing activities at Naval Weapons Systems Training Facility (NWSTF)
Boardman, Oregon to include establishment of new associated Special Use
Airspace (SUA). The National Guard Bureau and Federal Aviation
Administration are cooperating agencies for this EIS.
NWSTF Boardman is the principal regional training range for
aviation units located at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island and is used
for training by Oregon National Guard units located throughout the
state of Oregon. NWSTF Boardman also supports training requirements of
the U.S. Air Force Reserve, and SUA activities for Department of
Defense (DoD) contractors for unmanned aerial system testing and
training of DoD personnel.
With the filing of the Draft EIS, the DoN is initiating a 60-day
public comment period and has scheduled two public meetings to receive
comments on the Draft EIS. This notice announces the dates and
locations of the public meetings for the Draft EIS and provides
supplementary information.
DATES AND ADDRESSES: The 60-day Draft EIS public review period will
begin September 7, 2012, and end on November 6, 2012. The DoN will hold
two public meetings to inform the public about the proposed action and
the alternatives under consideration, and to provide an opportunity for
the public to comment on the proposed action, alternatives, and the
adequacy and accuracy of the analysis in the Draft EIS. Each of the
public meetings will include an open house information session, with
informational poster stations staffed by DoN and Oregon National Guard
representatives, followed by a short presentation and oral comment
opportunity. Federal, state, and local agencies and officials, and
interested groups and individuals are encouraged to provide comments in
person at any of the public meetings or in writing during the public
comment period.
The public meetings will be held at each location between 5:00 p.m.
and 8:00 p.m. on the following dates:
1. Tuesday, September 25, 2012, Hermiston Conference Center Great
Room, 415 South Highway 395, Hermiston, Oregon 97838.
2. Wednesday, September 26, 2012, Port of Morrow Conference Center
Riverfront Room, 2 Marine Drive, Boardman, Oregon 97818.
Attendees will be able to submit oral and written comments during
the public meetings. Oral testimony from the public will be recorded by
a court reporter. In the interest of available time, and to ensure all
who wish to give an oral statement have the opportunity to do so, each
speaker's comments will
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be limited to three (3) minutes. Equal weight will be given to oral and
written statements. Comments may also be submitted via the U.S. Postal
Service or electronically via the project Web site provided below. All
statements, oral or written, submitted during the public review period
will become part of the public record on the Draft EIS and will be
reviewed and acknowledged or responded to in the Final EIS.
Public meeting details will be announced in local newspapers.
Additional information is available on the project Web site at
www.NWSTFBoardmanEIS.com.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Naval Facilities Engineering Command,
Northwest, Attention: Ms. Amy Burt--NWSTF Boardman EIS Project Manager,
1101 Tautog Circle, Suite 203, Silverdale, Washington 98315-1101.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A Notice of Intent to prepare this Draft EIS
was published in the Federal Register on October 5, 2010 (75 FR 61452).
A separate and additional scoping effort was conducted to address the
modification of the proposed action to include establishment of a
Military Operations Area that would join the current SUA associated
with NWSTF Boardman. The Notice of Intent for the modification of the
proposed action was published in the Federal Register on December 27,
2011 (76 FR80910).
The DoN's proposed action involves construction and operation of
new range facilities and changes in existing training and testing
activities at NWSTF Boardman. In general, the proposed action would
increase the types of training and testing activities and the number of
training events conducted at NWSTF Boardman; accommodate force
structure changes; and provide enhancements to training facilities and
activities at NWSTF Boardman and its associated SUA.
To comply with federal mandates, the DoN proposes to maintain and
enhance current levels of military readiness through improvement of
training at NWSTF Boardman, accommodate possible future increases in
training, and maintenance of the long-term viability of NWSTF Boardman
as a military training and testing area. The proposed action is needed
to provide a training environment consisting of ranges, training areas,
and range instrumentation with the capacity and capabilities to fully
support required training tasks for military units and personnel
utilizing NWSTF Boardman.
The Draft EIS includes analysis of the potential environmental
impacts of three alternatives, including the No Action Alternative and
two action alternatives. The No Action Alternative constitutes the
current level of baseline training and testing activities. Alternative
1 includes all current training and testing activities; the
establishment and use of an additional Military Operations Area to the
northeast of existing NWSTF Boardman SUA; an increase in existing
training activities; new training activities; and range enhancements
and facilities to meet DoN and Oregon National Guard training
requirements. Alternative 2 includes all elements of Alternative 1 and
the implementation of additional range enhancements, including the
addition of a second (western) convoy live-fire range, a new range
operations control center, and three mortar training positions.
Mitigation measures for potential effects to biological resources
are being coordinated through appropriate Federal agencies. There are
no Federally-listed species under the Endangered Species Act present at
NWSTF Boardman, however, the DoN is conferencing with the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, as appropriate, for potential impacts to the
candidate species, Washington ground squirrel (Urocitellus
washingtoni).
The Draft EIS was distributed to Federal, state, and local
agencies, elected officials, and other interested individuals and
organizations. Copies of the Draft EIS are also available for public
review at the following public libraries:
1. Multnomah County Central Library, 801 Southwest 10th Avenue,
Portland, Oregon 97205.
2. Boardman Branch of the Oregon Trail Library District, 200 South
Main Street, Boardman, Oregon 97818.
3. Heppner Branch of the Oregon Trail Library District, 444 North
Main Street, Heppner, Oregon 97836.
4. Central Branch of the Salem Public Library, 585 Liberty Street
Southeast, Salem, Oregon 97301.
5. West Salem Branch of the Salem Public Library, 395 Glen Creek
Road Northwest, Salem, Oregon 97304.
6. Stafford Hansell Government Center, 915 Southeast Columbia
Drive, Hermiston, Oregon 97838.
Copies of the Draft EIS are also available for electronic viewing
at www.NWSTFBoardmanEIS.com. A paper copy of the Executive Summary or a
single compact disc of the Draft EIS will be made available upon
written request.
Dated: August 31, 2012.
C.K. Chiappetta
Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Navy,
Federal Register Liaison Officer.
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