Public Hearing for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Realignment of the Naval Air Station Pensacola, FL

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy

Public Hearing for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for

the Realignment of the Naval Air Station Pensacola, FL

Pursuant to Council on Environmental Quality regulations (40 CFR

parts 1500-1508) implementing procedural provisions of the National

Environmental Policy Act, the Department of the Navy has prepared and

filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency the Draft

Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Proposed Realignment of

NAS Pensacola, Florida.

In response to the recommendations of the 1993 Defense Base Closure

and Realignment Commission and to legislative requirements in the 1990

Base Closure and Realignment Act (Pub. L. 101-510), Naval Training

Center San Diego, California, is to be closed and NAS Memphis,

Tennessee, is to be realigned. Some of the naval training now offered

at these centers will be relocated to NAS Pensacola, Florida. This

consolidation of service schools at NAS Pensacola would bring

approximately 1,100 military-staff personnel and an on-board average of

4,230 students. Twenty construction projects are required that include

instructional training, and administrative facilities, enlisted

quarters, and approximately 118 new family housing units at nearby

Corry Station. The proposed projects are sited to be consistent with

surrounding land use and to occur on previously disturbed land.

The DEIS has been distributed to various federal, state, and local

agencies, elected officials, special interest groups, and the media. A

limited number of single copies are available at the address listed at

the end of this notice. A public hearing will be held at Pensacola

Junior College, Warrenton Campus, room 3000, 555 West Highway 98,

Pensacola, Florida, on Thursday evening, on May 26, 1994, from 7 p.m.

until the end of public comment or until 12 midnight.

The public hearing will be conducted by the Navy. Federal, state,

and local agencies and other interested parties are invited and urged

to be present or represented at the hearing. Oral statements will be

heard and transcribed by a stenographer; however to assure accuracy of

the record, all statements should be submitted in writing. All

statements, both oral and written, will become part of the public

record on this study. Equal weight will be given to both oral and

written statements.

In the interest of available time, each speaker will be asked to

limit their oral comments to five minutes. If longer statements are to

be presented, they should be summarized at the public hearing and

submitted in writing either at the hearing or mailed to the address

listed at the end of this announcement. All written statements must be

postmarked by June 13, 1994, to become part of the official record.

Additional information concerning this notice may be obtained by

contacting Ronnie Lattimore (Code 203RL), Southern Division, Naval

Facilities Engineering Command, P.O. Box 190010, North Charleston,

South Carolina 29419-9010, telephone (803) 743-0888.

Dated: May 5, 1994.

Lewis T. Booker, Jr.,

LCDR, JAGC, USN, Federal Register Liaison Officer.

[FR Doc. 94-11204 Filed 5-9-94; 8:45 am]

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