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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Captain Jeff Basa at (512) 782–7924 or 

by e-mail at 

txarng.landpurchase@ng.army.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Army 

has identified the need for land 

acquisition and use of approximately 

22,232 acres of land to enhance realistic 

training conditions. No adequate 

maneuver training land is currently 

available within a suitable travel time 

for the three TXARNG Battalions 

stationed in south Texas. The Army 

proposes land acquisition of 

approximately 22,232 acres for 

additional maneuver training land to 

meet the training needs of the TXARNG. 

This additional land will enhance 

training and will allow Soldiers to train 

to more realistic standards in 

preparation for operational deployment 

at a site located closer to their home 

communities. The Army Training 

Division, National Guard Bureau, is the 

action proponent; the land would be 

owned by the Army and licensed to the 

TXARNG. 

The TXARNG PEIS will analyze the 

environmental and socioeconomic 

impacts of land acquisition to establish 

the STTC. The land acquisition 

alternative is located adjacent to and 

northeast of the existing U.S. Navyowned Dixie Range in McMullen 

County. A PEIS is proposed for this 

analysis to address the implementation 

of the RPMP, which would consist of a 

number of construction phases to be 

implemented over an extended 

timeframe (estimated 15 to 20 years). 

This PEIS would analyze the general 

development of a cantonment area, 

training areas, and infrastructure 

support. Separate environmental 

analyses may be required at a later date, 

as necessary, for development not 

covered within this PEIS. The Army No 

Action Alternative will evaluate the 

impacts of taking no action to acquire 

additional training land. Resources and 

issues that will be evaluated in the PEIS 

include changes in land use from 

private hunting lands to military 

training lands; potential impacts to 

biological, cultural, and water resources; 

changes in transportation and traffic in 

the region. At this point, we do not 

anticipate any significant impacts. 

Additional concerns raised during the 

initial public involvement process will 

also be addressed in the PEIS. 

The Notice of Intent can be viewed at 

http://www.agd.state.tx.us. Scoping and 

Public Comment: Federally recognized 

tribes, federal, state, and local agencies, 

and the public are invited to participate 

in the scoping process for the 

preparation of the PEIS. The scoping 

process will include one public scoping 

meeting, which is an opportunity for the 

public to receive information about the 

proposed action and alternatives and to 

assist the Army in identifying potential 

environmental impacts and key issues 

of concern to be analyzed in the PEIS. 

The meeting will be held in McMullen 

County, Texas. Notification of the time 

and location for the scoping meeting 

will be announced in local media 

sources. To ensure scoping comments 

are fully considered in the preparation 

of the PEIS, comments and suggestions 

should be received within the 30-day 

scoping period. The public will also be 

invited to review and comment on the 

Draft PEIS when it is available for 

review. Notification letters will be 

mailed to Native American tribes, 

federal, state, and local agencies 

regarding the scoping process and Draft 

PEIS availability. A public meeting will 

take place during the comment period 

on the Draft PEIS and the public will be 

invited to share their views and 

concerns. Comments from the public 

will be considered before any decision 

is made regarding implementing the 

proposed action. 

Dated: December 13, 2010. 

Hershell E. Wolfe, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of the 

Army (Environment, Safety, and 

Occupational Health). 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

Preparation of the PEIS for 

Modernization of Training 

Infrastructure at Po ̄hakuloa Training 

Area, HI 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: The United States Army 

Pacific (USARPAC) and United States 

Army Garrison, Hawai‘i (USAG–HI) 

intend to prepare a Programmatic 

Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) 

for modernizing training ranges, training 

support infrastructure (roads and 

utilities), and training support facilities 

in the cantonment area at Po ̄hakuloa 

Training Area (PTA) to meet better the 

readiness needs of military units in 

Hawai‘i. The PEIS will evaluate PTA’s 

long-term vision for modernizing 

training ranges, training support 

infrastructure, and the cantonment area 

to improve a current shortfall in 

collective (group) live-fire training 

capabilities for units stationed in 

Hawai‘i. The PEIS also includes an 

analysis for constructing and operating 

an Infantry Platoon Battle Area (IPBA) 

that would include an Infantry Platoon 

Battle Course (IPBC), Live-fire 

Shoothouse, and Military Operations on 

Urban Terrain (MOUT) facility. The 

IPBC would augment the existing nonstandard IPBC (located at Range 10 on 

PTA), which is undersized and cannot 

be modernized in its current footprint. 

The Range 10 IPBC would continue to 

be used for non-standard collective livefire training exercises. 

Many of the training ranges and 

infrastructure at PTA do not meet 

current doctrinal training and standard 

range design requirements. Many of the 

range assets at PTA also do not have 

sufficient throughput capacity to meet 

collective live-fire training 

requirements. 

Alternatives analyzed in the PEIS will 

consider modernizing the training 

ranges, training support infrastructure, 

and the cantonment area at PTA, and a 

No Action alternative. Under the No 

Action alternative, the Army would 

continue utilizing current training lands 

and facilities as efficiently as possible. 

The PEIS will also present a range of 

alternatives for the IPBA at either the 

Western Range Area of PTA, Charlie’s 

Circle, or along the southwest side of 

Range 20, or to not build and operate 

the IPBA at all. 

The primary environmental issues to 

be analyzed in the PEIS include (but are 

not limited to) air quality, traffic, 

biological resources, cultural resources, 

public services and utilities, wildfires, 

and hazardous materials and waste. 

There could be significant impacts to 

cultural resources, air quality, and risk 

from igniting wildfires. Also, we 

anticipate that some federally-listed 

threatened or endangered plants would 

be affected. Predicted environmental 

impacts associated with implementing 

the initial range project of constructing 

and operating the IPBA will be analyzed 

to include an increase in vehicle traffic, 

air quality impacts, and live-fire 

activities at currently underutilized 

range locations at PTA. The proposed 

action may increase the risk of igniting 

wildfires or may result in a loss of 

cultural resources. The Army will 

identify mitigation measures that could 

be implemented to reduce or eliminate 

adverse impacts to the environmental 

resources. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 

addressed to PTA PEIS, P.O. Box 514, 

Honolulu, HI 96809; facsimiles may be 

sent to (808) 545–6808; e-mail may be 

addressed to PTAPEIS@bah.com. 

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80800 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 246 / Thursday, December 23, 2010 / Notices 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

USAG–HI Public Affairs by phone at 

(808) 656–3152 during normal business 

hours Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 

5 p.m. HST. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

proposed action considers modernizing 

the training ranges, training support 

infrastructure, and the cantonment area 

at PTA. The Army’s proposed action is 

supportive of Training Circular 25–8 

Training Ranges (TC 25–8), the National 

Security Strategy (NSS, 2010) and the 

Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR 

2010); these strategic documents have 

been incorporated into the Army’s 

decision making process. The purpose 

of the proposed action (modernization) 

is to reduce a shortfall in collective livefire training capability in Hawai’i and 

improve the infrastructure that supports 

the training capability. 

An IPBC is used to train and test 

infantry platoons, either mounted or 

dismounted, on the skills necessary to 

conduct tactical movement techniques 

and detect, identify, engage, and defeat 

stationary and moving infantry and 

armor targets in a tactical array. A 

standard IPBC is approximately 500 

meter (m) wide at the initial engagement 

entry point and 1,500m wide at the final 

engagement point and 4,000m long. The 

Army plans to construct an IPBC that 

would be 1,000m wide at the initial 

engagement entry point to add 

flexibility for unit commanders to train 

against additional objectives supporting 

combat scenarios experienced in the 

contemporary combat environment. 

A Live-fire Shoothouse and MOUT 

facility would be sited in the immediate 

vicinity of the IPBC. The Shoothouse 

would provide Army unit leaders with 

a facility to train and evaluate the unit 

during a live-fire exercise. Soldiers 

would fire small arms weapons at 

targets within the facility. The range 

would include associated range 

operations and control facilities, an 

operations/storage building, latrine, and 

after-action review (AAR) facility. The 

primary facility of the Shoothouse 

would be a two-story building 

approximately 4,700 square feet, with 

stairways and a roof. 

The MOUT facility would include the 

construction or placement of 

approximately 24 modular structures to 

replicate small villages for units to 

complete training tasks in an urban/ 

semi-urban operating environment. 

There is no standard design for a MOUT 

facility. The MOUT facility footprint at 

PTA would be approximately 800 feet 

by 800 feet or 640,000 square feet. 

Predicted environmental impacts 

associated with the modernization of 

PTA may include actions that have both 

positive (beneficial) and adverse 

impacts to the environmental resources 

at PTA. 

Each proposed IPBA live-fire 

alternative location under consideration 

is either in or directly adjacent to the 

existing impact area at PTA. 

Based on public scoping and factors 

discussed above, the Army will refine 

its range of reasonable alternatives to 

the extent possible to accommodate 

mission requirements. In reaching this 

decision, the Army will assess and 

consider public concerns. 

Scoping and Public Comment: All 

interested members of the public, 

including Federally recognized Indian 

Tribes, Native Hawai‘ian groups, and 

Federal, state, and local agencies are 

invited to participate in the scoping 

process for the preparation of this PEIS. 

Written comments identifying 

environmental issues, concerns and 

opportunities to be analyzed in the PEIS 

will be accepted for 45 days following 

publication of the Notice of Intent in the 

Federal Register. Scoping meetings will 

be held on the Island of Hawai’i. 

Notification of the times and locations 

for the scoping meetings will be 

published in local newspapers. 

Dated: December 16, 2010. 

Hershell E. Wolfe, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of the 

Army (Environment, Safety, and 

Occupational Health). 

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