Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the Mission and Master Plan, Fort Bliss, Texas, and New Mexico

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army

Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the Mission

and Master Plan, Fort Bliss, Texas, and New Mexico

agency: Department of the Army, DoD.

action: Extension of public comment period.

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summary: To accommodate requests from the public, the Department of the

Army has decided to extend the public comment period on the Draft

Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (DPEIS) for the Mission and

Master Plan, Fort Bliss, Texas and New Mexico from October 5, 1998 to

November 5, 1998.

dates: Comments on the DEIS should be postmarked by November 5, 1998 to

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ensure consideration. Comments postmarked after that date will be

considered to the extent practicable.

addresses: To request information about this DPEIS, contact Vicki

Hamilton via e-mail at [email protected] Written comments

should be sent to U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Center and Fort

Bliss, Directorate of the Environment, ATTN: AZC-DOE-C (PEIS), Building

624 North, Pleasanton Road, Fort Bliss, TX 79916-6812.

for further information contact: Vick Hamilton at (915) 568-2774.

supplementary information: On August 18, 1998, Department of the Army

published a notice in the Federal Register (63 FR 44247) (63 FR 44247)

announcing the availability of the subject DPEIS and the locations of

the planned public meetings as well as the repositories for the DPEIS.

The dates and times for the public meetings were announced subsequently

in the public media in the vicinity of Fort Bliss and the meetings were

held on September 3, 4, and 5, 1998. The Environmental Protection

Agency published its Notice of Availability for the DPEIS on August 21,

1998 (63 FR 44859). Department of the Army has received requests from

several parties to extend the comment period. In response to these

requests, and to ensure that all interested parties have time to

comment, the comment period has been extended to November 5, 1998.

Dated: October 23, 1998.

Raymond J. Fatz,

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army, (Environment, Safety and

Occupational Health) OSASA (I,L&E).

[FR Doc. 98-28886 Filed 10-27-98; 8:45 am]

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