Notice of Availability of Addendum to the Final Environmental Impact Statement for Realignment of Marine Corps Base, Camp LeJeune, NC

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy

Notice of Availability of Addendum to the Final Environmental

Impact Statement for Realignment of Marine Corps Base, Camp LeJeune, NC

SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy (DON) has prepared an Addendum to

the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Expansion and

Realignment of Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, which

provides updated information concerning the environmental impacts

associated with the establishment of special use airspace restrictions

over the Greater Sandy Run Area (GSRA), Camp Lejeune. DON solicits

public participation and written comment on the Addendum. The comment

period will close on August 11, 1997.

ADDENDUM INFORMATION: Pursuant to Sec. 102(2) of the National

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 and the Council on

Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations implementing NEPA procedures

(40 CFR Secs. 1500-1508), DON prepared and published a Final

Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) analyzing the impacts associated

with the proposal to expand and realign Marine Corps Base, Camp

Lejeune, North Carolina. This expansion was accomplished in 1992 via

the purchase of 41,000 plus acres known as the Greater Sandy Run Area

(GSRA).

The FEIS addressed special use airspace restrictions to be placed

over the GSRA. The Department of the Navy decided to publish this

Addendum to the Final Environmental Impact Statement to further address

the environmental concerns and impacts on current land uses from the

establishment of approximately 50 square miles of special use airspace

over the GSRA. Although use of an addendum to an FEIS is neither

required by NEPA nor directed by CEQ Regulations, DON determined that

this addendum will serve as a vehicle for a more thorough discussion of

matters relating to the establishment of a special use airspace over

the GSRA, and will thereby further the purposes of NEPA. The addendum

is intended to provide the public with notification of this

information. The addendum incorporates the Draft and Final

Environmental Impact Statements. The addendum provides updated

information concerning environmental impacts, but not information that

is so significant as to require a supplemental environmental impact

statement. As the addendum does not present new circumstances or new

information relevant to significant environmental impacts of the

proposed action or alternatives, it is not intended as a supplement to

the Final Environmental Impact Statement, as defined in Sec. 1502.9(c)

of the CEQ Regulations.

The majority of the information contained in the Addendum is taken

from reports, studies and analyses referenced in the FEIS. The Addendum

clarifies and updates information concerning the cumulative effects

analysis used in the FEIS, provides the second part of a two part noise

study referenced in the FEIS, and provides the public with an

opportunity to review and comment on this information. An outline of

the issues addressed in the Addendum is set out below.

Outline

A. Information on Proposal To Establish Special Use Airspace

B. Explanation of Independent Utility of GSRA Restricted Airspace

C. Description of the Existing Land Uses and Classifications in and

near the GSRA

D. Noise Sensitive Areas That May Be Overflown

1. Maps

2. Within the GSRA

3. Off-site

E. Wildlife and Wildlife Areas

F. Noise Impacts from Aircraft

G. Summary of Consistency Determination

H. Cumulative Effects Analysis

1. Finality

2. Update

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3. Additional Quantitative Noise Analysis

4. Quantitative Noise Analysis for the Core and Cherry I MOAs

I. MCAS New River Instrument Landing System.

J. Camp Davis Operations

K. Environmental Justice In Minority Populations and Low-Income

Populations

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR TO OBTAIN A COPY OF THE ADDENDUM: Contact

Major Craig Jensen at (910) 451-9517. Written comments should be sent

to Major Craig Jensen, Eastern Area Counsel Office, 67 Virginia Dare

Dr., Suite 206, Camp Lejeune, NC 28547, and must be received by 4:00

pm, August 11, 1997.

Dated: July 3, 1997.

D.E. Koenig, Jr.,

LCDR, JAGC, USN, Alternate Federal Register Liaision Officer.

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