Notice of Public Hearing for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Realignment of Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, IL

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy

Notice of Public Hearing for the Draft Environmental Impact

Statement for the Realignment of Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, IL

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 realignment of Naval

Training Center Great Lakes, Illinois.

In response to the recommendations of the 1993 Defense Base Closure

and Realignment Commission (BRAC-93) and to legislative requirements in

the 1990 Base Closure and Realignment Act (Pub. L. 101-510), Naval

Training Center (NTC) Orlando, Florida; NTC San Diego, California;

Naval Technical Training Center (NTTC) Treasure Island; and Combat

Systems Technical Schools Command (CSTC) Mare Island are to be closed

and some of the Service School Command (SSC) training is to be

realigned and collocated at NTC Great Lakes, Illinois. The proposed

action consists of renovations to existing buildings within the SSC,

some new construction and increases in student and instructor personnel

over current levels. Also, 240 new family housing units are to be

constructed at Naval Air Station Glenview, which is closing.

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 for public review and comment. A public hearing

to inform the public of

the DEIS findings and to solicit comments will be held on June 23,

1994, beginning at 7 p.m., at the College of Lake County, room A162,

19351 West Washington Street, Grayslake, Illinois.

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

local agencies, and 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, oral comments should not exceed

five minutes. Longer statements 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 July 11, 1994, to

become part of the official record.

Additional information concerning this notice may be obtained by

contacting Mr. Robert Teague (Code 203RT), Southern Division, Naval

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

South Carolina 29419-9010, telephone (803) 743-0785.

Dated: June 3, 1994.

Lewis T. Booker, Jr,

LCDR, JAGC, USN, Federal Register Liaison Officer.

[FR Doc. 94-13871 Filed 6-7-94; 8:45 am]

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