Notice of Public Hearing for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Disposal and Reuse of the Naval Air Station (NAS) Glenview, IL

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy

Notice of Public Hearing for the Draft Environmental Impact

Statement for the Disposal and Reuse of the Naval Air Station (NAS)

Glenview, 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 Proposed Disposal and

Reuse of the NAS Glenview, Illinois.

In response to the recommendations of the 1993 Department of

Defense Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC-93) and to

legislative requirements of the 1990 Base Realignment and Closure Act

(Pub. L. 101-510), NAS Glenview, Illinois is to be closed and the

property to be made available for disposal and reuse. The Navy has

prepared a DEIS which addresses the environmental impacts of disposing

NAS Glenview and of its potential reuse. The purpose of the DEIS is to

assist the Secretary of the Navy in making a decision concerning the

disposition of NAS property. It is the Navy's policy to adopt the

community's redevelopment plan as its preferred alternative. The

preferred alternative presented in the DEIS is the Consensus Reuse Plan

approved by the Glenview Community Reuse Planning Group.

The preferred alternative for NAS Glenview is a combination of land

uses which integrates the site with the Glenview community. It includes

low and moderate density residential, a variety of public uses, retail,

office/warehouse, light industrial, commercial, a sports, leisure, and

entertainment component, a new Metra commuter rail station, and land

devoted to open space and preservation of the existing golf course. The

plan will generate approximately 5,100 jobs, slightly increase the

amount of wetlands, and increase local traffic in the area of the base.

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 to inform the public of the DEIS findings and to

solicit comments will be held at the Glenview Village Hall, 1225

Waukegan Rd. on Thursday evening, August 17, 1995, from 7 p.m. until

the end of public comment or 12 midnight.

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

and 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 legal stenographer; however, to ensure accuracy of

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

statements, oral and written, will become a part of the public record

of this study, and will be responded to in the Final Environmental

Impact Statement. Equal weight will be given to both oral and written

statements.

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

limit his/her comments to five minutes. If longer statements are to be

presented, they should be summarized for the public hearing and

submitted in long-form at the hearing or mailed to the address listed

at the end of this announcement. All written comments must be

postmarked by 5 September 1995, to become a part of the official

record.

Additional information concerning this notice may be obtained by

contacting Tom Burst (Code 064TB), Southern Division, Naval Facilities

Engineering Command, PO Box 190010, North Charleston, South Carolina,

29419-9010, telephone (803) 743-0590.

Dated: July 25, 1995.

L.R. McNees,

LCDR, JAGC, USN, Federal Register Liaison Officer.

[FR Doc. 95-18823 Filed 7-31-95; 8:45 am]

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