Public Hearing for Draft Environmental Impact Statement on Yuma Training Range Complex

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy

Public Hearing for Draft Environmental Impact Statement on Yuma

Training Range Complex

Pursuant to Council on Environmental Quality regulations (40 CFR

Parts 1500-1508) implementing procedural provisions of the National

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

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

Statement (DEIS) for the Yuma Training Range Complex.

Public hearings to inform the public of the DEIS findings and to

solicit comments will be held on February 6, 1996, beginning at 6:30

pm, in the Central Union High School multipurpose room, located at 1001

Brighton Avenue, El Centro, California; on February 7, 1996, beginning

at 6:30 pm, in the Woodard Junior High School cafeteria, located at

2250 8th Avenue, Yuma, Arizonia; and February 15, 1996, beginning at

6:30 pm, in the Armory Senior Center ballroom, located at 220 South 5th

Avenue, Tuscon, Arizona.

Federal, state, and local agencies and interested parties are

invited and urged to be present or represented at the hearings. 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 hearings and

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

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

postmarked by March 29, 1996, 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. In

addition, the DEIS has been placed in the following libraries:

Tuscon/Pima Library, 101 N. Stone Street, Tuscon, AZ

Mira Mesa Public Library, 8540 Mira Mesa Boulevard, San Diego, CA.

Yuma County Library, 350 South 3rd Street, Yuma, AZ

Mesa Public Library, 64 East 1st Street, Mesa, AZ

Avondale City Library, 328 West Western Avenue, Avondale, AZ

Catalina Community Library, 15560 North Oracle Road, Catalina, CA

La Mesa Public Library, 8055 University Avenue, La Mesa, CA

Desert Foothills Library, 38443 N. Schoolhouse Road, Cave Creek, AZ

Wellton Branch Library, 30101 East Highway 80, Wellton, AZ

Chula Vista Public Library, 665 F Street, Chula Vista, CA

Scottsdale Public Library, 3839 Civic Center Boulevard, Scottsdale, AZ

Chandler Public Library, 25 South Arizona Place, Chandler, AZ

El Centro Public Library, 539 State Street, El Centro, CA

Marana Community Library, 13370 North Lon Adams Road, Marana, AZ

Brawley Public Library, 400 Main Street, Brawley, CA

San Luis Branch Library, 23222 South lst Street, San Luis, AZ

Glendale Public Library, 5959 North Schoolhouse Road, Glendale, AZ

Casa Grande Public Library, 405 East 6th Street, Casa Grande, AZ

San Diego Public Library, 820 E Street, San Diego, CA

Phoenix Public Library, 1221 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ

Tempe Public Library, 3500 South Rural Road, Tempe, AZ

Pala Verde Valley Library, 125 West Chanslorway, Blythe, CA

Gila Bend Library, Gila Bend, AZ

Green Valley Community Library, 601 North La Canada Drive, Green

Valley, AZ

A limited number of single copies are available at the address

listed at the end of this notice.

The DEIS addresses proposed training procedures, development, and

airspace reconfiguration within the Yuma Training Range Complex, which

consists of the Chocolate Mountains Aerial Gunnery Range in

southeastern California, the western portion of the Barry M. Goldwater

Air Force Range in southwestern Arizonia, and associated special use

airspaces designated for military use. The proposed improvements are

needed to ensure that Marine and other U.S. tactical air forces have

the advanced and diversified training resources to ensure their combat

readiness.

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Additional information concerning this notice may be obtained by

contacting Major Joe Cox or Mr. Ron Pearce, Range Management

Department, Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma, Arizona, 85369-9160,

telephone (602) 341-3318.

Dated: January 18, 1996.

Kim G. Weirick,

Acting Head, Land Use and Military Construction Branch, Facilities and

Services Division /Installations and Logistics Department, By Direction

of the Commandant of the Marine Corps.

[FR Doc. 96-860 Filed 1-22-96; 8:45 am]

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