81 FR 76937 - Notice of Availability of Record of Decision for the Northwest Training and Testing Final Environmental Impact Statement/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Navy Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 214 (November 4, 2016)
Department of the Navy
Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 214 (November 4, 2016)
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| FR Document | 2016-26685 |
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 214 (Friday, November 4, 2016)] [Notices] [Pages 76937-76938] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-26685] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Department of the Navy Notice of Availability of Record of Decision for the Northwest Training and Testing Final Environmental Impact Statement/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy (DoN), after carefully weighing the strategic, operational, and environmental consequences of the proposed action, announces its decision to continue and enhance training activities as identified in Alternative 1 in the Northwest Training and Testing Final Environmental Impact Statement/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement. This alternative includes adjustments to existing training and testing activities, new training and testing activities to support future requirements, and activities not previously analyzed, such as pierside sonar maintenance and testing. Implementation of Alternative 1 will enable the DoN to achieve the levels of operational readiness required under Section 5062 Title 10 U.S.C. without resulting in significant environmental impacts. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The complete text of the Record of Decision is available at http://nwtteis.com. Single copies of the Record of Decision are available upon request by contacting: [[Page 76938]] NWTT EIS/OEIS Project Manager, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Northwest, 1101 Tautog Circle, Suite 203, Silverdale, Washington, 98315-1101. Dated: October 31, 2016. C. Mora, Commander, Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Navy, Federal Register Liaison Officer. [FR Doc. 2016-26685 Filed 11-3-16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3810-FF-P
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(NEPA), the Baltimore District, U.S. alternatives that may better achieve the Structural and non-structural FRM will
Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), will Project’s need and purposes with fewer be considered. Hydrologic and
prepare a Feasibility Report and EIS adverse impacts and (2) any significant hydraulic modeling will be developed
comprehensively evaluating flood-risk environmental impacts relating to the for the majority of the Susquehanna
management (FRM) needs and alternatives. River main stem and major tributaries in
opportunities in the upper Susquehanna Scoping meeting information will be the basin to aid plan formulation.
River Basin in New York. posted online by Baltimore District via The study will be conducted in
DATES: The public scoping meeting Web site postings and social media. compliance with applicable federal laws
dates are: Meeting information will be provided including the Clean Water Act, the
1. November 21, 2016, at 1:30 p.m. electronically via the study’s Web page Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air
and 6:30 p.m. in the Hubbard and in printed form to local libraries, Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Auditorium of the Tioga County Office government offices, as well as mailed to Coordination Act, the National Historic
Building. interested public. Preservation Act, and the Farmland
2. November 22, 2016 at 1:30 p.m. and For all meetings, staff will be Protection Policy Act. All appropriate
6:30 p.m. at the Town of Chenango available to answer questions. All compliance documentation will be
Community Meeting Room. interested parties are invited to speak at obtained and included as part of the
3. November 30, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. in the public meetings. The public scoping EIS. It is currently anticipated that the
the Village of Sidney. peiod will begin on the date of study will take three years and may lead
ADDRESSES: Two scoping meetings will publication of this Notice and will to the implementation of one or more
be held in the Village of Owego on continue through 30 days following the FRM projects. The EIS is expected to be
Monday, November 21, 2016, at 1:30 last public scoping meeting. publicly released in Spring 2018.
p.m. and 6:30 p.m. in the Hubbard The study was authorized by a
Resolution of the House Committee on David W. Robbins,
Auditorium of the Tioga County Office Acting Chief, Civil Project Development
Building, 56 Main Street. Two scoping Transportation and Infrastructure, on 24
September, 2008. The upper Branch, Planning Division.
meetings will be held in the Town of [FR Doc. 2016–26699 Filed 11–3–16; 8:45 am]
Chenango on Tuesday, November 22, Susquehanna Basin includes the
2016 at 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. at the portions of Tioga, Broome, Chenango, BILLING CODE 3720–58–P
Town of Chenango Community Meeting Cortland, Otsego, Delaware, Schoharie,
Herkimer, Oneida, Madison, Onondaga,
Room at 1529 Upper Front Street (NY DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Tompkins, Schuyler, and Chemung
Route 12). One meeting will be held on
Counties in the Susquehanna River
November 30, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. in the Department of the Navy
Watershed of New York upstream of the
Village of Sidney in the Memorial
Chemung River confluence near Notice of Availability of Record of
Public Library located at 8 River Street.
Waverly. The upper Susquehanna River Decision for the Northwest Training
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Basin repeatedly experiences flooding
Questions about the proposed scoping and Testing Final Environmental
damages, with recent notable events Impact Statement/Overseas
meetings, requests to be placed on the occurring in 2006 and 2011. USACE is
project information distribution list, Environmental Impact Statement
undertaking the FRM study in
information requests or written partnership with the New York State AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD.
comments on the scope of the EIS and Department of Environmental ACTION: Notice.
the comprehensive FRM study can be Conservation (NYSDEC).
addressed to Mr. David W. Robbins, USACE and NYSDEC are seeking SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, ATTN: public input to identify areas with (DoN), after carefully weighing the
CENAB–PL–P, 10 S. Howard Street, flooding concerns which may be of strategic, operational, and
Baltimore, MD 21201, telephone 410– interest to address in the context of the environmental consequences of the
962–0685; email address: study, and learn of area-specific proposed action, announces its decision
UpperSRBStudy@usace.army.mil. considerations important in formulating to continue and enhance training
Please contact me if you wish to speak any FRM plans. Study efforts will be activities as identified in Alternative 1
at the meetings or should you have coordinated with the Federal Emergency in the Northwest Training and Testing
special needs (sign language Management Area (FEMA), the U.S. Final Environmental Impact Statement/
interpreters, access needs) at the above Geological Survey (USGS), as well as Overseas Environmental Impact
address. Information about the study, other Federal and state agencies and Statement. This alternative includes
including public scoping meetings, is local governments. adjustments to existing training and
available at the study Web site http:// An initial conceptual effort will be testing activities, new training and
www.nab.usace.army.mil/USRB_ completed using existing information to testing activities to support future
Feasibility_Study/. identify areas of the basin that currently requirements, and activities not
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This do not have FRM infrastructure in place previously analyzed, such as pierside
Notice initiates formal scoping for the and screen these areas for FRM needs sonar maintenance and testing.
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), and opportunities. The study will Implementation of Alternative 1 will
provides information on the nature of evaluate the level of FRM currently enable the DoN to achieve the levels of
the proposed Project, invites provided by existing FRM infrastructure operational readiness required under
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participation in the EIS process, and under current conditions and projected Section 5062 Title 10 U.S.C. without
identifies potential environmental future conditions. Within the study resulting in significant environmental
effects to be considered. It also invites area, there are 20 existing USACE FRM impacts.
comments from interested members of projects, as well as other non-Federal SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
the public, tribes, and agencies on the FRM projects. The study will investigate complete text of the Record of Decision
scope of the EIS and announces FRM strategies to reduce flood risk, as is available at http://nwtteis.com. Single
upcoming public scoping meetings. well as reduce residual risk in areas copies of the Record of Decision are
Comments should address (1) feasible with existing FRM infrastructure. available upon request by contacting:
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NWTT EIS/OEIS Project Manager, Naval PCAST is consulted about and provides pcast, no later than 9:00 a.m. Eastern
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C. Mora,
the President. PCAST is co-chaired by person, with a total public comment
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Commander, Judge Advocate General’s Corps,
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U.S. Navy, Federal Register Liaison Officer.
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[FR Doc. 2016–26685 Filed 11–3–16; 8:45 am]
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