Notice of Public Hearing for Draft Environmental Impact Statement on Realignment to Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton, CA

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy

Notice of Public Hearing for Draft Environmental Impact Statement

on Realignment to Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton, CA

Pursuant to Council on Environmental Quality regulations (40 CFR

Parts 1500-1508) implementing procedural provisions of the National

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Environmental Policy Act, the Marine Corps has prepared and filed with

the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency the Draft Environmental Impact

Statement (DEIS) for realignment of Marine Corps Air Station Camp

Pendleton, California.

A public hearing to inform the public of the DEIS findings and to

solicit comments will be held on December 1, 1995, beginning at 6 pm,

in the Fallbrook Community Center, located at 341 Heald Lane,

Fallbrook, California 92028.

The public hearing will be conducted by the Marine Corps. 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 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 weights 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 December 17, 1995, to become part of the official record.

The DEIS has been distributed to various Federal, State, and local

agencies, elected officials, and civic associations and groups. A

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

the end of this notice.

In accordance with the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of

1990 and the specific base closure and realignment decisions approved

by the president and accepted by Congress in September 1995, the

proposed action is the realignment of Marine Corps Air Station Camp

Pendleton. The proposed action relocates aircraft and associated assets

from MCAS Tustin and MCAS El Toro, which are closing, to MCAS Camp

Pendleton.

Alternatives considered in the DEIS include: no action, development

alternatives (alternative site configurations) at MCAS Camp Pendleton,

and use of other military installations. The proposed action will have

impacts on noise, endangered species, cultural assets, and air quality.

Additional information concerning this notice may be obtained by

contacting Chief Warrant Officer Harry Roberts or Mr. Bruce Shaffer,

Base Closure and Realignment Office, Marine Corps Air Station El Toro,

Santa Ana, CA 92709, telephone (714) 726-3383.

By direction of the Commandant of the Marine Corps.

Dated: November 20, 1995.

Kim G. Weirick,

Assistant Head, Land Use and Military Construction Branch Facilities

and Services Division, Installations and Logistics Department.

[FR Doc. 95-28609 Filed 11-22-95; 8:45 am]

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