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

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## Record

- **Collection:** Federal Register
- **Document type:** Notice
- **Published:** August 1, 1995
- **Citation:** 60 FR 39157

## Text

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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