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email FAAKodiakEA@icfi.com;
telephone (202) 267–9305.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Draft
EA was prepared to analyze the
potential environmental impacts of the
FAA modifying the Alaska Aerospace
Corporation’s (AAC’s) Launch Site
Operator License to include medium-lift
launch capability at the Kodiak Launch
Complex (KLC), a commercial launch
site currently operated under a FAA
Launch Site Operator License (LSO–03–
008), which authorizes only small-lift
operations. Expansion of launch
capabilities at KLC would include the
addition of new infrastructure necessary
to support medium-lift launches,
including the construction of a launch
pad and associated facilities. As part of
the Proposed Action addressed in the
EA, AAC would make improvements to
the KLC to add both solid and liquidpropellant, medium-lift launch
capability, and to operate the KLC in the
future as a small-lift and medium-lift
launch complex. Proposed construction
at KLC includes six primary
modifications: construction of Launch
Pad 3 (LP3), a vehicle processing
facility, rocket staging facility, liquid
fuel facility, mission control center and
improvements to Pasagshak Point Road.
Proposed launch operations would
include up to six orbital small-lift
launches and three medium-lift
launches per year from the existing
launch pads and from the proposed LP3;
however, to be conservative in the
analysis of potential environmental
impacts in this Draft EA, the EA
assumes a maximum of nine mediumlift launches per year.
The Draft EA addresses the potential
environmental impacts of implementing
the Proposed Action and the No Action
Alternative. Under the No Action
Alternative, the FAA would not modify
AAC’s Launch Site Operator License to
include medium-lift launch capability
and AAC would not proceed with the
construction of medium-lift launch
support infrastructure at KLC. Existing
launch activities for up to nine orbital
small-lift class launches per year from
the existing launch pads would
continue.
The impact categories considered in
the Draft EA include air quality;
compatible land use; Department of
Transportation Act: Section 4(f); fish,
wildlife, and plants; hazardous
materials, pollution prevention, and
solid waste; historical, architectural,
archaeological, and cultural resources;
light emissions and visual impacts;
natural resources and energy supply;
noise; socioeconomic, environmental
justice, and children’s environmental
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health and safety risk; water quality;
and wetlands. The Draft EA also
considers the potential cumulative
environmental impacts.
The FAA has posted the Draft EA on
the FAA Office of Commercial Space
Transportation Web site: https://
www.faa.gov/about/office_org/
headquarters_offices/ast/
environmental/nepa_docs/review/
documents_progress/kodiak_launch/.
A paper copy and a CD version of the
Draft EA may be reviewed for comment
during regular business hours at the
following libraries:
• Kodiak Public Library, 612 Egan
Way, Kodiak, AK 99615
• University of Alaska Anchorage—
Carolyn Floyd Library, 117 Benny
Benson Drive, Kodiak, AK 99615
• Anchorage Municipal Library, 3600
Denali St., Anchorage, AK 99503
The FAA will hold an open house
public meeting to solicit comments from
the public concerning the scope and
content of the Draft EA. Details of the
meeting are as follows:
• October 7, 2014, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00
p.m., Kodiak Inn Best Western,
Katurwik Room, 236 E. Rezanof Dr.,
Kodiak, AK 99615
The public will be able to speak to
project representatives one-on-one and
submit written comments or provide
oral comments to a stenographer. Oral
and written comments are weighted
evenly.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FAA
encourages all interested parties to
provide comments concerning the scope
and content of the Draft EA. To ensure
that all comments can be addressed in
the Final EA, comments on the draft
must be received by the FAA no later
than October 15, 2014. Comments
should be as specific as possible and
address the analysis of potential
environmental impacts and the
adequacy of the proposed action or
merits of alternatives and the mitigation
being considered. Reviewers should
organize their comments to be
meaningful and inform the FAA of their
interests and concerns by quoting or
providing specific references to the text
of the Draft EA. Matters that could have
been raised with specificity during the
comment period on the Draft EA may
not be considered if they are raised for
the first time later in the decision
process. This commenting procedure is
intended to ensure that substantive
comments and concerns are made
available to the FAA in a timely manner
so that the FAA has an opportunity to
address them.
ADDRESSES: Please submit comments in
writing to Stacey M. Zee, Federal
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Aviation Administration, c/o ICF
International, 9300 Lee Highway,
Fairfax, VA 22031; or by email at
FAAKodiakEA@icfi.com.
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15, 2014.
Daniel Murray,
Manager, Space Transportation Development
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Research, Engineering and
Development Advisory Committee
Pursuant to section 10(A)(2) of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub.
L. 92–463; 5 U.S.C. App. 2), notice is
hereby given of a meeting of the FAA
Research, Engineering and Development
(R,E&D) Advisory Committee.
AGENCY: Federal Aviation
Administration, DOT.
ACTION:
Notice of Meeting.
Name: Research, Engineering &
Development Advisory Committee.
Time and Date: October 09, 2014—
9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Place: Federal Aviation
Administration, 800 Independence
Avenue SW.—Round Room (10th
Floor), Washington, DC 20591.
Purpose: The meeting agenda will
include receiving from the Committee
guidance for FAA’s research and
development investments in the areas of
air traffic services, airports, aircraft
safety, human factors and environment
and energy. Attendance is open to the
interested public but seating is limited.
Persons wishing to attend the meeting
or obtain information should contact
Chinita A. Roundtree-Coleman at (609)
485–7149 or chinita.roundtreecoleman@faa.gov. Members of the
public may present a written statement
to the Committee at any time.
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2014.
Chinita A. Roundtree-Coleman,
Computer Specialist.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Research, Engineering and Development Advisory Committee
Pursuant to section 10(A)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act
(Pub. L. 92-463; 5 U.S.C. App. 2), notice is hereby given of a meeting
of the FAA Research, Engineering and Development (R,E&D) Advisory
Committee.
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice of Meeting.
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Name: Research, Engineering & Development Advisory Committee.
Time and Date: October 09, 2014--9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Place: Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Avenue
SW.--Round Room (10th Floor), Washington, DC 20591.
Purpose: The meeting agenda will include receiving from the
Committee guidance for FAA's research and development investments in
the areas of air traffic services, airports, aircraft safety, human
factors and environment and energy. Attendance is open to the
interested public but seating is limited. Persons wishing to attend the
meeting or obtain information should contact Chinita A. Roundtree-
Coleman at (609) 485-7149 or chinita.roundtree-coleman@faa.gov. Members
of the public may present a written statement to the Committee at any
time.
Issued in Washington, DC, on September 8, 2014.
Chinita A. Roundtree-Coleman,
Computer Specialist.
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