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SECTION 2.0 

PROPOSED ACTION 

2.1 INTRODUCTION 

The Army proposes to update Fort Belvoir’s land use plan and to implement the BRAC 

Commission’s recommendations. The BRAC realignment actions would involve constructing and 

renovating facilities and, consistent with the BRAC law, relocating units, agencies, and activities 

to the post by September 2011. 

BRAC realignment would result in a net increase of approximately 22,000 personnel assigned at 

Fort Belvoir. The increase in personnel and facilities requires an updated land use plan. Siting of 

new facilities for the base realignment action would then comport with the updated land use plan. 

The master planning, facilities construction, and personnel assignment functions are closely 

interrelated. 

Most BRAC realignment actions for the Army conform to existing, sufficient master plans that 

are flexible and recognize future needs. BRAC realignment at Fort Belvoir involves two 

important considerations. First, the post’s current master plan does not encompass the EPG 

because of past intentions to dispose of that 807-acre area for other development. The EPG must 

be incorporated into the post’s land use plan. Second, the proposed increase of 22,000 personnel 

represents the largest relocation of personnel in the BRAC 2005 round. Approximately 7 million 

square feet of new and renovated facilities and approximately 7 million square feet of parking 

must be ready for use by September 15, 2011. 

2.2 PROPOSED ACTION DETAILS 

2.2.1 Land Use Plan Update 

Fort Belvoir’s mission is to provide a secure, safe operating environment for numerous missions 

and functions, including the following:

• Administrative, logistics, and operations support for regional and worldwide military 

missions 

• A creative learning environment for Army and DoD students 

• Military support for a variety of National Capital Region (NCR) contingency missions 

• Regional housing for active duty military families 

• Quality of life support for the military community, including health and recreation 

• Environmental stewardship in concert with adequate land and facilities. 

RPMP Long-range Component. To support the foregoing, the Army proposes to adopt and 

implement an RPMP update to respond to changing conditions at the post to comply with AR 

210-20, Real Property Master Planning for Army Installations, which mandates updating existing 

plans as circumstances require. This EIS pertains to the initial step of the RPMP update process, 

the revision of the land use plan, which is necessary to siting of facilities for BRAC 
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implementation. The update to the RPMP centers on the land use analysis and plan portion of the 

long-range component (LRC).5

 This portion of the LRC shows the current and future 

relationships and use of installation land by generalized areas, including such facilities as family 

housing, troop housing, administration, and range and training areas. 

Planning Principles. The following principles embody the aspirations for the future evolution of 

Fort Belvoir. These principles, compiled by Belvoir New Vision Planners6

 and Fort Belvoir, 

provide guidance in deciding the future direction of facilities, space needs and meeting the goals 

of the installation, the Army, and the community. Adherence to these principles can provide the 

most efficient use of land, maximum use of previously disturbed areas, the least environmental 

impact and, ultimately, a world-class installation. 

• Transform Fort Belvoir: Create a world-class installation. 

• Achieve a diversity of use and activities: Enrich the program—a 24/7 environment. 

• Strengthen the natural habitat: Protect and enhance the creeks, wetlands, and wildlife 

corridors.

• Achieve environmental brilliance: A sustainable approach in everything that is done. 

• Build compact neighborhoods: Strengthen the sense of community and place. 

• Improve connectivity: Foster connections to transit and consider strategies that allow 

people to “park once.” 

• Emphasize the public realm: Create walkable neighborhoods. 

• Respect Fort Belvoir history: Continue the legacy for future generations. 

• Foster Community benefits: Strengthen existing Army and surrounding neighborhoods. 

Real property master planning is a continual, collaborative, and integrated process, performed 

primarily at the installation level. Although master planning reflects local mission requirements, it 

is strongly influenced by the plans, guidance, and initiatives of higher headquarters. An 

installation RPMP is, therefore, the principal real property management tool in support of overall 

installation real property operation, management, development, privatization, realignment, 

cleanup, and disposal. 

2.2.1.1 Fort Belvoir’s Existing Land Use Plan 

The land use plan that is the subject of this EIS is the 1993 land use plan and a 2002 update of the 

Fort Belvoir RPMP. The 1993 master plan consisted of four elements: Real Property Master 

Plan Long-Range Component—1993; Real Property Master Plan Short-Range Component—

1993–2000; a Capital Investment Strategy; and a Mobilization Mission Planning Component. 

Figure 2-1 illustrates the 1993 land use plan. 

Fort Belvoir developed its current master plan in 1993 to reflect the post’s transition from 

primarily a troop support and training mission to its role as an administrative center providing 

support to multiple organizations in the NCR. Specifically, the U.S. Army Engineer School 

moved to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, in 1988, and BRAC directives realigned the Belvoir 

Research and Development Engineering Center (BRDEC). BRAC directives also resulted in 

relocating administrative functions to Fort Belvoir. 

 5

 AR 210-20 provides that an RPMP is organized into five components: the RPMP digest, long-range component 

(LRC), installation design guide (IDG), capital investment strategy (CIS), and short-range component (SRC). 6

 The Army has contracted with Belvoir New Vision Planners, a consortium of firms having experienced planners, 

managers, engineers, architects, environmental, and transportation experts, for services to help plan and develop Fort 

Belvoir into a world-class urban federal center and flagship installation in America’s national security structure. 

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The 1993 LRC identified Fort Belvoir’s role as “the major administrative and logistics center for 

the Northern Virginia portion” of the Military District of Washington (MDW). Recognizing that 

Fort Belvoir would continue to attract military tenants, the plan attempted to determine total 

build-out (TBO, defined as the total daily employment when all land uses have been fully 

developed under the constraints and limitations of the plan). The plan recognized that TBO might 

never be reached and that “Progress toward TBO is mission-driven but infrastructureconstrained.” The plan articulated goals, objectives, and assumptions that focused on the amount 

and type of development anticipated, and it attempted to limit impacts on the natural and manmade environments. EPG was not included in the 1993 plan. 

The 1993 land use plan shown in Figure 2-1 identified 3,287 acres on Main Post as developable. 

The TBO that could be supported was estimated to be 74,230 people housed in 30.5 million 

square feet of space. By comparison, in 2005 about 24,000 personnel worked at Fort Belvoir 

daily, housed in about 10.8 million square feet of space. 

The 1993 Real Property Master Plan was revised in 2002 upon the adoption of a Regional 

Community Support Center Subarea Development Plan. The plan revision addressed a desire to 

locate additional related activities in the portion of the Lower North Post area designated in 1993 

as the Regional Community Support Center. In particular, the 2002 Subarea Plan recommended 

that DeWitt Hospital (now on South Post) be relocated to the Regional Community Support 

Center area, that the post exchange (PX) be expanded, and a chapel be developed. The 

amendment also decreased the amount of land classified for community facilities, designated land 

for medical use, and increased the amount of land classified as environmentally sensitive. The 

master plan is currently in the process of being updated. 

2.2.1.2 Proposed Land Use Plan Revision 

The proposed land use plan revision is shown in Figure 2-2. It differs from the 1993 land use 

plan and 2002 revision in several important respects in that it: 

• Includes the EPG in planning for future development. 

• Uses fewer, but broader, land use designations that encompass compatible land uses. For 

example, the 1993 land use plan provided for Administration and Education and 

Research and Development categories; these are now included in the category titled 

Professional/Institutional. The new categories allow for more flexible groupings of 

compatible types of facilities.7

• Identifies additional areas for present and future Professional/Institutional and Residential 

uses. 

• Relocates the Troop area from North Post to South Post. 

 

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 Twelve land use classifications used in the 1993 master plan were Administration and Education, Airfield, 

Community Facility, Environmentally Sensitive, Family Housing, Industrial, Medical, Outdoor Recreation, Research 

and Development, Supply/Storage and Maintenance, Training/Ranges, and Troop Housing. These classifications are 

now aggregated and reduced to seven land use categories in the Army’s draft real property Master Plan Technical 

Manual (MPTM): Airfields, Community, Industrial, Professional/Institutional, Residential, Training, and Troop. 

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• Changes land use designations for a number of areas on the basis of revised assessment 

of their suitability for particular uses, projection of future needs, and the desire to make 

land uses broader and more encompassing. 

• Acreage formerly designated as environmentally sensitive is now subject to any of the 

seven current land use designations. 

Table 2-1 provides a comparison of the land use areas in the 1993 master plan, as amended in 

2002, to those proposed for the land use plan update. 

Table 2-1 

Comparison of 1993 and 2011 land use allocations 

1993 master plan Proposed land use plan 

Land use Acres Land use Acresa

Administration & Education 724 Airfield 697 

Airfield 391 Community 2,950 

Community Facilities 452 Industrial 213 

Family Housing 576 Professional/Institutional 2,132 

Industrial 126 Residential 1,116 

Medical 97 Training 1,287 

Outdoor Recreation 1,006 Troop 101 

Research & Development 340 

Supply, Storage, & Maintenance 378 

Training Range 462 

Troop Housing 72 

Environmentally Sensitive 3,063 

Total 7,687 8,508 

a

 All proposed land use designation acreages were calculated in GIS, and the totals may differ from the official acreages 

for the installation. 

The difference between the total number of acres for the 1993 land use plan as amended in 2002 

(7,687) and the total for the proposed land use plan (8,484) is the result of including the EPG and 

several land areas being added or recognized as belonging to Fort Belvoir since 1993. These 

include 4 acres of islands in Accotink Bay and Gunston Cove; 16 acres west of Colchester Road 

that became part of Fort Belvoir following realignment of Colchester Road; a net increase of 16 

acres resulting from the swap of the McNaughton ballfields. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 

operates Humpreys Engineer Center (HEC) in the northeast corner of the Main Post, which is 

considered a separate entity for land use planning purposes and is not evaluated in this EIS. 

The proposed land use plan aggregates land uses into larger, more flexible areas than did the 1993 

plan (compare Figure 2-1 and Figure 2-2) in accordance with the Army’s draft real property 

Master Planning Technical Manual (MPTM) and AR 210-20. Reflecting the evolution in Fort 

Belvoir’s mission, the land use categories gaining land are those which support its regional 

mission as an administrative, logistics, and operations center; military support center; classroom 

center; housing center; military community support center; and a leader in environmental 

stewardship. The Airfield land use would gain in acreage land because adjacent areas formerly 
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designated as Environmentally Sensitive around the airfield would be re-designated for Airfield 

uses, although environmental regulatory protections remain in the environmentally sensitive 

areas. Land use categories losing land—particularly Training Range and Supply, Storage & 

Maintenance—reflect Fort Belvoir’s earlier missions which require fewer resources and less land 

today. 

An action as large as BRAC required incorporation of these new categories into the EIS to 

determine compliance with the land use plan in the installation’s ongoing master plan update. 

Potential maximum buildout levels will be analyzed in the master plan update and its associated 

NEPA document. 

Environmentally sensitive areas are incorporated into the land use plan update through an 

Environmental Resources Assessment (ERA). The ERA analyzes a broad array of data from 

EISs, Environmental Condition of Property (ECP) reports, Integrated Natural Resource 

Management Plans (INRMPs), Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plans (ICRMPs), 

mitigations from RODs, federal, state, and local regulations and requirements, and several ARs 

including AR 200-1, 200-3, and 200-4. The ERA identifies constraints on development from 

environmentally sensitive areas, which is illustrated in Figure 2-3. The development constraints 

map is comprised of more than 19 data layers showing such information as wetlands, habitat, 

endangered species, cultural resources, landfills, hazardous substances, etc. See nomenclature in 

appropriate resource areas within Section 4 of this EIS. The proposed land use plan has been 

structured so that only the best development sites are identified for growth. The determination of 

which areas are buildable or not is based on a “summary of opportunities and constraints”, which 

is made up of the ERA, facilities constraints, land use, utilities, transportation networks, airfields, 

ranges, and training lands. The best sites are those that have the fewest environmental, 

operational, cultural resource, and constructability constraints. Figure 2-3 shows the areas on post 

that would pose difficulties for development either because of environmental (e.g., RPAs), 

cultural resource (e.g., historic districts), or operational (e.g., airfield flight paths) constraints. 

About 5,900 acres (70 percent) of the installation have some form of development constraint. 

Principal features and elements of the proposed land use plan include the following: 

• Professional/Institutional. The Administration & Education and Research & 

Development land use categories used in the 1993 land use plan would change to 

Professional/Institutional. The proposed land use plan increases the amount of land 

designated for Professional/Institutional use. A substantial part of the increase is due to 

the inclusion of EPG as well as medical facilities in the Professional/Institutional 

category. 

• Residential. The proposed land use plan would increase the land area dedicated to family 

housing on both the North and South Posts. Fort Belvoir Residential Communities, the 

program through which family housing has been privatized, is in the process of building 

and rehabilitating 2,070 family housing units. A portion of the land designated for 

Residential would be reserved for future development related to long-term growth on the 

installation. Woodlawn Village would be converted to Community land use and the 

housing units there would be consumed into other housing areas on-post. 

• Open Space. Much of the area designated as Environmentally Sensitive in the 1993 land 

use plan would be redesignated as Community, and some are found in other categories. 

These areas include safety clearances, security areas, water areas, wetlands, conservation 

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areas, RPAs, forest stands, and former training areas. These lands could be used for 

recreation, conservation, outdoor training, and general uses not involving the construction 

of facilities. Because environmentally constrained land areas would continue to have all 

regulatory protections in place, not all of a designated land use area is suitable for the 

proposed type of development. Figure 2-4 shows the proposed land use plan with the 

constraints overlaid. The areas with no constraints could be most easily developed. 

• McNaughton Ballfields Land Swap. The three McNaughton ballfields along Pole Road on 

the southern border of Woodlawn Village are pending exchange for the Berman Tract

immediately east of Woodlawn Village, which will result in a net increase of 16 acres for 

Fort Belvoir. This area would be designated as Community land use. 

• South Post Golf Course. The proposed land use plan would change the land use 

designation of most of the South Post golf course from Outdoor Recreation to 

Professional/Institutional. 

• Supply, Storage, and Maintenance Facilities. The proposed land use plan would enable 

demolition of outdated and inefficient warehouses; relocation of most of the Supply, 

Storage, and Maintenance Operations in the 1400 Area to the 700/1100 Areas; and 

redevelopment of the eastern portion of the 1400 Area east of Gunston Road for 

Professional/Institutional uses. 

• Unaccompanied Personnel Housing. The proposed land use plan would change the land 

use designation from Troop Housing to Troop and convert North Post areas designated 

for Troop uses to Professional/Institutional. A new Troop land use area would be 

provided on South Post, west of Gunston Road. 

• DeWitt Army Community Hospital. In the 2002 master plan amendment, Fort Belvoir 

planned to site a new Army Community Hospital on a parcel of land south of Kingman 

Road on North Post. The proposed land use plan now enables the new hospital to be sited 

on the South Post Golf Course in the southwest quadrant of the intersection of U.S. Route 

1 and Belvoir Road. The present DeWitt hospital site would be designated for 

Community use. 

In the proposed land use plan, a new Troop Area would be established on South Post on 

approximately 75 acres west of Gunston Road in the western portion of the 1400 Area. Industrial 

uses in that area would relocate to other designated Industrial sites on post. The present Troop 

Area in the 2100 Area, consisting of approximately 50 acres generally bounded by Gunston, 

Abbott, Beauregard, and Goethals Roads on North Post, would become available for 

Professional/Institutional uses upon relocation of Soldier billeting (living quarters) and activities 

to the new Troop Area. Notwithstanding the proposed changes in land use classifications of these 

two areas, current land uses would continue until such time as the Army constructs and occupies 

necessary troop facilities at the new location on South Post. 

In several cases the change in land use designations from the 1993 plan would allow Fort Belvoir 

to prepare for potential changes to its mission in the future even though, except to accommodate 

BRAC realignment actions, no specific uses for the sites are under consideration. For example, 

this is the case for the area that would be designated Community at the site now occupied by 

Woodlawn Village. 

Force Protection Standards. The proposed land use plan has been developed to achieve 

compliance with force protection requirements for military facilities as set forth in DoD Unified 

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Facilities Criteria 4-010-01, DoD Minimum Antiterrorism Standards for Buildings (2007). The 

effect of the standards on the master plan is to require that buffer zones around buildings and 

roads be reserved as force protection standoff areas. The buffer zones affect the amount of land 

needed for any one facility and also dictate the facility’s relationship to other facilities. Future 

military construction projects will be required to adhere to force protection setbacks. Although 

buildings already built are exempt, it is strongly recommended that the requirements be 

implemented to the fullest extent possible. Any major investment requiring renovations or 

modifications where costs exceed 50 percent of the replacement cost of the building require that 

the entire building be in compliance with the standards. 

Buildings affected by the standoff requirements include those routinely occupied by 50 or more 

personnel (designated as a primary gathering structure) or buildings inhabited by 11 or more 

personnel and with a population density of greater than one person per 430 gross square feet 

(gsf). The standoff buffer for inhabited structures is 33 feet minimum; for primary gathering 

structures, it is 82 feet minimum, and some facilities require much greater distances than the 

minimum. Standoff distances from uncontrolled roads (such as U.S. Route 1) are to be 148 feet 

minimum, and for controlled roads, 82 feet minimum. 

The standards recommend that a vulnerability assessment be conducted for existing buildings and 

that changes be made as necessary to improve building security. These changes can take varying 

forms, from procedures and planning to physical changes to the buildings, such as replacing glass 

windows with reinforced glass in key areas. 

2.2.2 Base Realignment 

2.2.2.1 Introduction 

In July 2006 the Army considered three conceptual development strategies to address the 

question of where facilities could be sited to accommodate a net increase of 22,000 personnel 

being assigned to Fort Belvoir.8

 That review process resulted in identifying a preferred land use 

strategy that reflected the best aspects of each of the three conceptual development strategies.9

The preferred land use strategy was then used as the basis for the proposed amendment to Fort 

Belvoir’s land use plan. 

Accommodation of personnel being realigned must take into account the needs of six major 

groups slated for realignment by the BRAC Commission: Washington Headquarters Services 

(WHS), consisting of WHS and elements of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and defense 

agencies; National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA); various Army entities moving from 

leased space in the NCR (“Army Lease”); U.S. Army Medical Command10 (MEDCOM); Program 

Executive Office, Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS); and Missile Defense Agency 

Headquarters Command Center (MDA HQCC). The numbers of personnel associated with each 

of these groups are shown in Table 2-2. Details of the BRAC Commission’s recommendation can 

be found at http://www.brac.gov. 

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 The three conceptual development strategies—Town Center, City Center, and Satellite Campus—are discussed in 

detail in Section 3.0, Alternatives. 

9

 Chief considerations in evaluating the conceptual development strategies included transportation needs, 

environmental constraints, utilities and infrastructure requirements and availability, security, existing and future 

development potential, constructability, implementation (schedule and risk), and cost. 

10 This group essentially involves relocations of functions and personnel from Walter Reed Army Medical Center to a 

new DeWitt Army Community Hospital proposed at Fort Belvoir. 
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Table 2-2 

Personnel realigning to Fort Belvoir 

Agency Staff Contractors Total 

Washington Headquarters Servicesa 7,759 1,504 9,263 

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency 4,400 4,100 8,500 

Army Lease 2,720 0 2,720 

U.S. Medical Command 2,069 0 2,069 

Program Executive Office, Enterprise Info Systems 480 0 480 

Missile Defense Agency (HQ Command Center) 137 155 292 

Total 17,565 5,759 23,324 

Note: Personnel being realigned from Fort Belvoir to other installations result in a net increase at Fort Belvoir of 

approximately 22,000 personnel. Realignments from Fort Belvoir include the relocation of Army Materiel Command 

Headquarters and US Army Security Assistance Command to Redstone Arsenal, Alabama; Prime Power School to Fort 

Leonard Wood, Missouri; US Army Criminal Investigation Division Headquarters to Marine Corps Base, Quantico, 

Virginia; Soldiers Magazine to Fort Meade, Maryland; Biomedical Science and Technology programs of the Defense 

Threat Reduction Agency to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; Defense Threat Reduction Agency conventional 

armaments research to Eglin Air Force Base, Florida; and Information Systems, Research, Development and Acquisition 

to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Evaluation of environmental impacts associated with these realignments will be 

performed by the receiving locations. 

a

 This EIS evaluates the WHS personnel numbers realigning to Fort Belvoir as listed in the BRAC Commission’s 

recommendations, however, the actual personnel numbers with regard to WHS have been reduced and may continue to 

fluctuate as services vie for renovated spaces inside the Pentagon and other opportunities for staff location optimization 

take place. Therefore, this EIS analyzed the original BRAC Commission recommendations which represent a reasonable 

worst-case scenario. Both the reduced stationing numbers and the need to evaluate under future NEPA documents other 

alternative sites for WHS, such as the GSA parcel, will become better refined and will be acknowledged in the Record of 

Decision. 

Concurrent with the relocations directed by the BRAC Commission, the Army proposes to 

implement five “discretionary” moves of units, agencies, and activities to Fort Belvoir.11 Principal 

among these would be 90 personnel of the Information Technology, E-Commerce, and 

Commercial Contracting Center (ITEC4), a group the BRAC Commission directed to be 

relocated from the Washington, DC area to Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The ITEC4 function 

employs 97 personnel, 7 of whom are E-Commerce specialists who would move to Fort Sam 

Houston in order to be co-located with their principal customers. The remaining 90 personnel 

support Program Executive Office, Enterprise Information Systems, consolidation of which the 

BRAC Commission directed to occur at Fort Belvoir. In support of the BRAC objective of having 

supporting functions be co-located with supported functions, the Army proposes that these 90 

ITEC4 personnel relocate to Fort Belvoir instead of Fort Sam Houston. Other proposed 

discretionary moves to Fort Belvoir would involve 37 personnel of the Physical Disability 

Agency (now at Walter Reed Army Medical Center), 15 personnel of the Physical Evaluation 

Board (now at Walter Reed Army Medical Center), 3 personnel of the Acquisition Support 

Center, Northeast Region (now at Fort Monmouth), and 1 person at the Veterinary Activity, U.S. 

Army Garrison, Selfridge, Michigan. The 146 personnel involved in these five discretionary 

moves would directly support units, agencies, or activities realigned to Fort Belvoir by the BRAC 

Commission or join similar activities already assigned to the post. In light of this, the Army has 

not considered alternative installations for their relocations. 

 11 Realignment actions other than those specifically identified by the BRAC Commission or required to implement 

BRAC Commission recommendations are consider discretionary-location moves. 
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2.2.2.2 Allocation of Facilities and Personnel 

The July 2006 preferred land use strategy translates to a preferred siting plan for major BRAC 

tenants as shown in Figure 2-5. Accommodations of BRAC requirements would involve the 

following siting of facilities: 

• NGA and WHS would be on the eastern portion of EPG. 

• Army lease units, agencies, and activities would be on South Post at sites on Gunston 

Road and Belvoir Road. 

• The new army community hospital would be on the South Post Golf Course. 

• PEO EIS and MDA HQCC would be on South Post at sites on Gunston Road and Belvoir 

Road. 

2.2.2.3 Construction and Renovation 

Construction and renovation of facilities to support additional personnel at Fort Belvoir would 

result in approximately 6.2 million square feet of additional built space and about 7 million 

square feet of parking structures. 

Fort Belvoir would require essentially two types of construction projects. First, Fort Belvoir must 

construct or renovate facilities to create working space or other types of special use space for the 

proposed additional workforce. Second, Fort Belvoir must expand its general support capabilities 

to meet the needs of a larger on-post population. Table 2-3 identifies these projects, and Figure 2-

6 shows where they would be sited. Figure 2-7 presents a conceptual building layout for some of 

the major BRAC facilities on-post.

Siting of facilities takes into consideration numerous factors. The following discusses chief 

factors considered in siting facilities. 

• Effects on traffic. Facilities housing large numbers of employees, predominantly in 

Professional/Institutional areas, require adequate roadways for movement of personnel to and 

from those sites. 

• Access. Certain activities, such as medical care or community services (e.g., PX and 

commissary) should be placed so that patients or patrons can have suitable access. 

• Security. The Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) 4-010-01 (DoD Minimum Antiterrorism 

Standards for Buildings) establishes standards for construction and location of buildings. 

Several of the standards relate to site planning and require minimum standoff distances for 

buildings and functional areas, unobstructed space around buildings, design of delivery areas, 

configuration of access roads, and parking restrictions. The standards for minimum standoff 

distances also take into account building populations for inhabited or uninhabited buildings, 

primary gathering buildings, and billeting structures. As a general rule, the standards impose 

new requirements for significant separations between buildings, between buildings and 

parking, and between buildings and roads. 

• Consolidation of functions. Multiple facilities of one unit, activity, or agency should be in 

close proximity to each other. Such geographic proximity enhances control and promotes the 

ability of all personnel within the function to work together. 

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Table 2-3 

Proposed construction and renovation projects 

Map 

number 

Project 

number Project title Fiscal year 

Building 

size (ft2

) 

Estimated 

impervious 

acreage 

1 65416 NGA Administrative Facility 2007–2011 2,419,000 20.3 

2 64234 WHS Administrative Facility 2008–2010 2,219,000 22.8 

3 MDA 580 MDA Facility 2008–2009 107,000 1.3 

4 64238 Hospital 2008 1,200,000 7.5 

4 65676 Hospital 2009 - - 

4 65677 Hospital 2010 - - 

5 64241 Dental Clinic 2010–2011 16,000 0.2 

6 65871 NARMCa Headquarters Building 2009 50,000 1.0 

7 n/a Corps of Engineers Project Integration Offices 2008 58,600 n/a 

8 64097 Infrastructure 2008 n/a n/a 

8 67487 Infrastructure 2009 n/a n/a 

8 67959 Infrastructure 2010 25,000 0.6 

9 64076 Emergency Services Center (EPG) 2008 14,700 3.4 

10 65448 Network Operations Center (part of PEO EIS) 2010 21,525 0.3 

11 65447 USANCAb Support Facility 2008 20,000 n/a 

12 55661 Child Development Center (NGA) 2011 19,590 0.5 

13 55662 Child Development Center 2011 24,036 0.6 

14 65450 Administrative Facility (Bldgs 211, 214, 215, 220) 2011 133,000 0.0 

15 63571 Access Road/Control Point 2009 280 8.2 

16 66228 AMCc Relocatables 2007 230,000 0.0 

17 65592/67231 PEO EIS Administrative Facility 2008 290,000 2.2 

17 67231 PEO EIS Administrative Facility 2008 157,400 1.2 

18 54347 Structured Parking Facility, 200 Area 2011 n/a 1.0 

19 62892 Modernize Barracks 2011 171,000 n/a 

20 54898 MWRd Family Travel Camp 2007–2010 n/a 1.5 

Notes: Project number is the construction project number assigned by the Army. Estimated impervious footprint acreage column was 

calculated based on the estimated number of building floors and adjacent parking spaces for each project. Parking garages were assumed for 

the larger projects. See Table 2-4 for additional infrastructure impervious surfaces (i.e. pavement) that would be constructed. a

North Atlantic Regional Medical Center 

b

U.S. Army Nuclear and Chemical Agency 

c

Army Materiel Command 

d

Morale, Welfare, and Recreation 

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LEGEND 

Potential Administrative Facility 

Potential Parking Area 
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• Preservation of quality of life. Siting of facilities should provide a pleasant atmosphere for 

employees, visitors, and residents. This objective is enhanced through siting and design that 

respect the existing natural systems of topography, vegetation, and drainage and that minimize 

ground works and aboveground utilities. The sense of community can be heightened with 

improved and linked open spaces, strategic tree locations, trail systems, activity areas, and 

street layouts to enhance the quality of outdoor life.

• Flexibility for future mission requirements. Additional missions could be assigned to Fort 

Belvoir in the future. Facilities siting and planning must take into account the potential for 

further facilities requirements. 

• Land use compatibilities. Siting of facilities should adhere to the proposed land use plan, Fort 

Belvoir’s principal tool for enhancing compatibilities among adjacent uses. 

• Preservation of environmental and cultural resources values. Siting of facilities should avoid, 

where possible, loss of natural, ecological, and cultural resources such as wetlands, listed or 

sensitive species or their habitat, wildlife species’ travel corridors, archaeological sites, and 

structures eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. 

The following paragraphs provide details on facility construction and renovation projects listed in 

Table 2-3 that are proposed to occur through fiscal year 2011. Maps provided in Appendix J 

outline site footprints for each of these projects. 

• NGA Administrative Facility (Project number 65416, FY 2007-2011, Map number [MN] 1 

in Figure 2-6). This project would provide a 2,419,000-square-foot Sensitive 

Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) for use by the NGA. This project is required 

to implement the BRAC 2005 recommendation to consolidate NGA intelligence and 

training operations; provide a secure facility to enhance command and control; promote 

acquisition, assimilation, and analysis of real-time intelligence; and enhance organizational 

productivity and intra-agency connectivity and operability. NGA elements are currently 

housed in numerous government-owned and leased facilities in and around the NCR. Their 

physical separation negatively affects their intelligence mission. There are no existing 

facilities at Fort Belvoir sufficient to support consolidation of all NGA intelligence 

operations, administrative functions, and training programs. The project would include a 

Remote Inspection Facility for the receipt of mail and materiel sent to the NGA facilities. 

• WHS Administrative Facility (64234, FY 2008–2010, MN 2). This project would provide 

2,219,000 square feet of secure administrative space for various units, agencies, and 

activities relocating to Fort Belvoir from leased facilities in the NCR. The project would 

include uninterruptible power supply and standby power generation. It would provide 

facilities on a secure installation, thereby improving force protection. This project would 

consolidate a number of similar activities with a resultant improvement in coordination, 

information exchange, and productivity. Various DoD offices are in leased facilities, 

primarily in Arlington and Alexandria, Virginia. Most of these facilities do not meet 

minimal DoD antiterrorism/force protection (AT/FP) construction standards for setbacks, 

progressive collapse, laminated windows, and so on. The facilities are dispersed 

throughout the NCR, negatively affecting direct coordination. 

• MDA Facility (MDA 580, FY 2008–2009, MN 3). This project would provide a 107,000 

square-foot administrative facility to serve as the MDA Headquarters Command Center for 

approximately 292 personnel. The project would consist of a multistory reinforced 

concrete or structural steel building on concrete footings. Functional areas that would be 
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provided include administrative space, command suite, security operations center, sensitive 

compartmentalized information facilities, special access areas, and meeting rooms. AT/FP 

measures would include building standoff distances, structural preventive collapse, 

laminated glass, lighting, bollards, and control gates. 

• Hospital (64238, 65676, and 65677, FY 2008–2010, MN 4). This project would provide a 

new hospital. Primary facilities would include the hospital (1,200,000 square feet), special 

foundations, central energy plant, helipad, ambulance shelter (2,200 square feet), vehicle 

parking garage, and building information systems. This project is required to provide a 

hospital to support BRAC 2005 restationing actions within the NCR affecting Walter Reed 

Army Medical Center (WRAMC) in Washington, DC; National Naval Medical Center 

(NNMC) at Bethesda; Malcolm Grow Medical Center (MGMC) at Andrews Air Force 

Base; and Dewitt Army Community Hospital at Fort Belvoir. This project is required for 

integrating WRAMC and NNMC and for establishing the new Walter Reed National 

Military Medical Center at Bethesda and a large Army community hospital at Fort Belvoir. 

The NCR medical service market supports care for more than 439,000 beneficiaries. A 

robust Army community hospital is required to support the relocation of nontertiary patient 

care functions consequent to the BRAC 2005 restationing actions, which include the 

closure of WRAMC and closure of inpatient care at MGMC. The restationing actions 

result in a growth of the NCR South Submarket (supported by a new Army community 

hospital) of more than 76,000 eligible beneficiaries to a total of 220,803 beneficiaries; a 

tripling of inpatient workload to more than 9,500 annual admissions; and a doubling of 

outpatient care, most of which is specialty care. The existing DeWitt Army Community 

Hospital at Fort Belvoir was constructed in 1957 as a 250-bed inpatient facility and still has 

the original heating, ventilating, and air conditioning system; plumbing system; medical 

gas system; and electrical distribution system. The building structure remains intact and 

usable, but the facility and its major utility systems fall far short of meeting the 

requirements of a modern medical treatment facility. Outpatient care must be performed in 

areas designed for inpatient care, resulting in personnel and space inefficiency and patient 

inconvenience. There are asbestos-containing materials in the existing pipe insulation, 

floor tile, and mastic at various locations, which significantly delays and escalates the cost 

of projects to upgrade and improve the facility.

• Dental Clinic (64241, FY 2010-2011, MN 5). This project would provide renovation of, 

and construction to add to, Building 1099 for a 16,000-square-foot dental clinic. The 

project is required to provide a quality dental clinic to support BRAC 2005 restationing 

actions of assigned troops working and living on or near Fort Belvoir. The existing facility, 

Building 1099, is not large enough to provide 40 dental treatment rooms, the necessary 

number to serve the larger population at Fort Belvoir. There is no available capacity 

elsewhere to support the increase in dental workload generated by the projected increase at 

Fort Belvoir of 4,200 active duty Soldiers as directed by the BRAC 2005 restationing 

actions. 

• NARMC HQ Building (65871, FY 2009, MN 6). This project would construct a 50,000-

square-foot general administration building for the North Atlantic Regional Medical 

Command (NARMC), as well as other Office of the Secretary of Defense Supporting Units 

and regional support offices, such as the North Atlantic Regional Dental Command, North 

Atlantic Regional Veterinary Command, and the North Atlantic Regional Contracting 

Office. The project is required to provide administrative and operational space for activities 

to be relocated to Fort Belvoir in accordance with the recommendations of BRAC 2005. 

Related medical administrative activities are currently located at the WRAMC and leased 
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space in Virginia (Hoffman Building complex). Currently, there is no adequate, permanent 

administrative space available at Fort Belvoir to accommodate proposed relocations of 

medical activities. This project would accommodate such activities by constructing a new, 

permanent multi-story administrative facility at Fort Belvoir within the proposed hospital 

campus. 

• Corps of Engineers Project Integration Offices (Temporary) (FY 2007, MN 7). This 

project would place temporary facilities for personnel of the Baltimore District Corps of 

Engineers Integration Office, which would provide integration of BRAC construction 

management for facilities being developed to accommodate realigned units, agencies, and 

activities. There would be approximately 22,500 square feet of temporary facilities 

(relocatable buildings) on EPG, north of Cissna Road and northwest of Building 5073. 

There would be another 36,100 square feet of temporary facilities on the northwest portion 

of the South Post golf course. These facilities would be in use for the duration of facilities 

construction in support of BRAC requirements. 

• Infrastructure (64097, 67487, and 67959, FY 2008–2010, MN 8). These three projects 

would provide a 25,000-square-foot communications center, access control facilities, one 

10,000-square-foot heating plant building, one 10,000-square foot refrigeration and air 

conditioning unit, and water, sewer, and electrical services for the EPG. The projects 

include demolishing 57,000 square feet of existing space. They are required to provide 

necessary infrastructure for units, agencies, and activities relocating to EPG and to 

maintain adequate levels of infrastructure support at Main Post. Current infrastructure at 

EPG is minimal. There is no access control, and heating and air conditioning is provided 

through self-contained systems adequate to support only past or current use requirements. 

Communications are virtually nonexistent. The road network consists of a two-lane road in 

poor condition. The Bailey Bridge over Accotink Creek is structurally compromised and is 

closed to vehicular traffic. The projects would provide replacement of the present bridge 

over Accotink Creek, as well as an additional bridge over Accotink and replacement of the 

bridge over Dogue Creek (South Post). Water, sanitary sewer, and electrical support are 

sized to the one occupied building. The perimeter fencing is in such poor condition that it 

affords little impediment to unauthorized access. Table 2-4 identifies the principal elements 

of infrastructure included in these projects, as well as infrastructure that would be 

constructed or installed in support of Main Post requirements.

• Emergency Services Center (64076, FY 2008, MN 9). This project would provide 14,700 

square feet of space and 15,000 square yards of maintenance apron for emergency services 

functions at EPG. The project is required to provide military police, Enhanced 911, 

hazardous materials response, and fire prevention and protection services at EPG in 

support of the facilities proposed to be constructed to implement BRAC 2005. The project 

would provide a combined police and fire station to provide traffic control and law 

enforcement in support of the agencies and activities on EPG and to provide rapid response 

to structural fires and medical emergencies. Currently, there is no police or fire station at 

EPG. There are three fire stations at Fort Belvoir—Building 191 constructed in 1934 and in 

poor condition, Building 2119 constructed in 1993, and Building 3242 constructed in 2003 

at Davison Army Airfield. The military police station, Building 2124, was constructed in 

2002. Because of their physical separation, none of these facilities is adequate to support 

EPG with emergency services. The fire stations are too far away to meet minimum 

response times. The police station is capable of supporting EPG with patrols but is too 

distant to effectively deliver any other law enforcement services. 
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Table 2-4 

Major proposed infrastructure elements 

Project element Element description 

Hot/chilled water lines 6,800 linear feet (LF) 

Sanitary sewer 13,900 LF (20, 12, and 8 inch lines) 

Potable water distribution 32,400 LF (24, 12, and 8 inch lines) 

2 stream crossings (lines attached to bridge) 

Perimeter fencing 25 acres clear/grub 

25,000 LF chain link fence 

Storm sewer 103,900 LF (24 inch) 

25,000 LF underground electrical lines 

2 creek crossings (utilities lines attached to bridge) 

400,000 LF electrical cabling 

375 light poles (30-foot) 

400-watt lights (x 375) 

Electrical service 

93,750 LF trench and backfill 

92 acres clear/grub 

810,000 ft2 pavement demolition (18.6 acres) 

3,465,000 ft2 road surfaces (80 acres) 

1 bridge (Accotink Creek) 

Surfaced roads 

2 bridge replacements (Dogue Creek, Accotink Creek) 

5 guardhouses 

5 overwatch booths 

15 guard booths 

Visitor Control Center (2,000 ft2) 

3 identification checkpoint canopies 

Access control facilities 

3 vehicles search canopies 

Communications center 25,000 ft2 facility at EPG 

• Network Operations Center (part of PEO EIS) (65448, FY 2010, MN 10). This project 

would provide a 6,525-square-foot operations center, a 10,000-square-foot storage area, 

and a 14,000-square-yard satellite yard. The project is required to provide satellite test 

facilities in support of the BRAC 2005 recommendation to station Project Manager 

Defense Communications and Army Transmission Systems (PM DCATS) at Fort Belvoir. 

There are no facilities at Fort Belvoir to support satellite testing and stationing of PM 

DCATS. 

• USANCA Support Facility (65447, FY 2008, MN 11). This project, which would 

approximately 20,000 square feet of renovated spaced in Building 238 required to support 

additional U.S. Army Nuclear and Chemical Agency (USANCA) personnel as part of 

BRAC 2005. The project would provide replacement facilities for the USANCA facilities 

on EPG, thereby allowing construction of multimillion-square-foot campuses for units, 

agencies, and activities relocating to EPG. USANCA is the unit charged with providing the 
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Army’s core critical nuclear and chemical expertise. Primary USANCA missions include 

enhanced force survivability in nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) environments; 

communication of the impact of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction on military 

operations; enhanced interoperability of forces in NBC environments; planning Army 

employment of and assessing vulnerability to nuclear weapons; safe and secure storage and 

demilitarization of the DoD chemical weapons stockpile; and safe and secure operation and 

maintenance of Army nuclear reactors, active or deactivated. USANCA now occupies 

Building 5073, a 13,618-square-foot facility constructed in 1954 at the EPG. Building 5073 

is in the center of the most developable portion of EPG. Its location and associated access 

and force-protection issues significantly reduce possible development in support of BRAC 

2005. 

• Child Development Center (NGA) (55661, FY 2011, MN 12). This project would provide 

a child development center with 19,590 square feet of space and a 24,430 square-foot 

outdoor area for 244 children. The project is required to provide a safe, healthy, and 

affordable developmental environment for dependent children of eligible personnel 

assigned to EPG. This project would improve morale and performance by providing 

affordable, on-site developmental services, thereby improving employees’ peace of mind 

and reducing the time of daily commutes. There are currently three child development 

centers at Fort Belvoir. They are in Buildings 1028, 1745, and 2468, which were 

constructed in 1988, 1992, and 1997, respectively. Though in relatively good condition, the 

facilities are at or near capacity, with waiting lists for some categories of services. 

• Child Development Center (55662, FY 2011, MN 13). This project would provide a child 

development center with 24,000 square feet of space and a 40,300-square-foot outdoor area 

for 303 children. See the description for the similar project MN 12 above. 

• Administrative Facility (Buildings 211, 214, 215, and 220) (65450, FY 2011, MN 14). 

This project is required to implement BRAC 2005 by modernizing existing facilities to 

provide 133,000 square feet of general and secure administrative space and structured 

parking for various units, agencies, and activities relocating to Fort Belvoir from leased 

facilities in the NCR. This project would provide facilities on a secure installation, thereby 

improving force protection. It would consolidate a number of similar activities, improving 

coordination, information exchange, and productivity. Currently, the following are in 

leased facilities, primarily in Arlington and Alexandria, Virginia: administrative assistants 

to the Secretary of the Army (SA); Office of the Assistant SA Financial Management and 

Comptroller; Office of the Chief of Chaplains; Communication and Electronics Command; 

Defense Finance and Accounting Service; Defense Human Resource Activities; Defense 

Technology Security Administration; Department of Defense Education Activity; Deputy 

Under SA—Operations Research; DoD Inspector General; MDA HQCC; Office of the 

Secretary of Defense; Project Manager Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Enterprise 

Systems and Services; Senior Executive Public Affairs Training; U.S. Army Audit 

Agency; U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute; U.S. Army G1/Army Research 

Institute; U.S. Army G1/Civilian Personnel Office; U.S. Army G3/Army Simulation; U.S. 

Army G6; U.S. Army G8/Force Development; U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology 

Command; U.S. Army Office of Environmental Technology; U.S. Army Office of the 

Chief of Army Reserve; U.S. Army Safety Office; U.S. Army G1/Personnel 

Transformation; and U.S. Army Legal Services Agency. The majority of these facilities do 

not meet minimal DoD AT/FP construction standards for setbacks, progressive collapse, 
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laminated windows and the like. The facilities are dispersed throughout the NCR, 

negatively affecting direct coordination. 

• Access Road/Control Point (63571, FY 2009, MN 15). This project would construct an 

access control point (ACP) with vehicle inspection station; access control building (280 

square feet); booth, and canopy, vehicle turnarounds; security lighting; backup generator; 

two-lane access road (306,000 square feet) with sidewalks/bike path; street lighting; 

drainage; traffic signal; and Richmond Highway (U.S. Route 1) left and right turns. The 

ACP, directly across Richmond Highway from Pence Gate, is required to provide safe 

force protection-compliant controlled access from Richmond Highway onto Fort Belvoir 

North Post. It would provide an ACP meeting DoD AT/FP construction standards with 

sufficient marshalling area and an adequate vehicle inspection station. This project is 

required to provide a second access onto North Post reducing congestion on Gunston Road 

and providing alternate access during periods of force protection conditions Charlie and 

Delta. The only access point from U.S. Route 1 onto North Post is Woodlawn Gate (Route 

618). Woodlawn Gate is currently closed. The existing ACP is inadequate. Constructed 

after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack, the ACP meets minimal DoD criteria for an 

ACP; however, the staging area is inadequate, the vehicle inspection station is temporary, 

the guard post is not hardened, and there is no overhead cover. The configuration of the 

ACP places the guard force at risk of being hit by vehicles while performing their force 

protection duties. If this project is not provided, the level of service on U.S. Route 1 would 

be such that there would be a breakdown in traffic flow resulting in extreme congestion 

during peak periods. AT/FP would not be provided in accordance with DoD standards. 

Traffic flow would be degraded, control and inspection of vehicles and personnel entering 

the installation would be inadequate, and military and contract law enforcement personnel 

would continue to be at risk from inadequate separation from vehicles and inadequate 

protective facilities. 

• AMC Relocatables (66228, FY 2007, MN 16). This project would purchase the facilities at 

Fort Belvoir that were leased to house the headquarters function of the U.S. Army Materiel 

Command (AMC). The facilities consist of two modular, two-story office buildings having 

a total of 230,000 square feet of space. The buildings include open and closed office space, 

along with special-purpose areas like an Emergency Operations Center (EOC), SCIF, 

auditorium, secure and nonsecure conference rooms, video teleconference center, technical 

library, data process center, and office support space. The facilities, located along Gunston 

Road, will be vacated upon the tenant’s relocation to Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, as 

required by BRAC 2005. Several Fort Belvoir tenants occupy buildings that do not meet 

minimum requirements. Inadequate office space negatively affects individual job 

performance, as does lack of special use space such as training and conference rooms, onsite storage, video conferencing, and so on. In addition, one-tenth of the general-purpose 

administrative space inventory is inadequate and exacerbates space deficit impacts. Fort 

Belvoir anticipates that its working population increase will place a further strain on the 

capacity of the general-purpose administrative space inventory. The two two-story, 

contractor-owned buildings are available for purchase. 

• PEO EIS Administrative Facility (65592 and 67231, FY 2007, MN 17). Project Number 

65592 would provide 290,000 square feet of general administrative space and a parking 

garage, and Project Number 67321 would provide an additional 157,400 square feet of 

secure administrative space. The projects are required to accommodate elements of PEO 

EIS relocating to Fort Belvoir as a consequence of BRAC 2005 and to consolidate 
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operations to enhance operational efficiencies and to reduce total square footage 

requirements. Approximately 370 personnel assigned to PEO EIS are at the post in 

Building 1445 (a converted barracks and dining facility constructed in 1969) and Buildings 

322 and 323 (World War II facilities originally constructed as vehicle maintenance shops). 

Another 454 personnel are at Fort Monmouth, and 802 personnel are in leased space in the 

NCR. Overall mission performance is degraded by the physical separation of activities, and 

the lack of adequate space negatively affects mission readiness. 

• Structured Parking Facility, 200 Area (54347, FY 2011, MN 18). This project would 

construct a parking structure with a capacity of 400 parking spaces in the 200 Area of Fort 

Belvoir. The structure would be constructed of reinforced concrete with structural steel 

framing, and it would have parking decks and a sloped interior ramp system. It is estimated 

that the parking structure would be three decks in height. Fort Belvoir is required to 

provide parking for both its military personnel and civilian workforce. Based on 60 percent 

of the working population in this area, 1,730 parking spaces are required to accommodate 

vehicle parking. The 200 Area is extensively used by Defense Systems Management 

College and numerous administrative activities. Parking in this area is extremely 

inadequate. All land suitable for parking is being used, and there is no room for expansion. 

The only means of accommodating the shortfall of parking spaces is to construct a parking 

structure on the existing area. If the project is not provided, the lack of adequate parking 

will continue to adversely affect the morale and efficiency of personnel who work or 

conduct business the 200 Area. 

• Modernize Barracks (62892, FY 2011, MN 19). This project would provide renovations to 

171,000 square feet of space in six barracks buildings in the McRee Barracks Complex. 

Renovation work would extend to living modules, hallways, stairwells, utilities, fire alarms 

and suppression systems, and building information systems. The existing barracks do not 

meet current standards for privacy, space, or amenities. The barracks are severely 

deteriorated. Inadequate heating, air conditioning, and ventilation systems contribute to 

mold growth and unhealthy living conditions. 

• MWR Family Travel Camp (54898, FY 2007–2010, MN 20). This project would provide a 

Family Travel Camp with 52 recreational vehicle (RV) campsites, a camp support facility, 

15 cabins, and 12 tent sites in four phases, each of which would be usable upon 

completion. The camp support facility would include a laundry section, camper’s lounge 

space, restrooms and showers, and vending machine space. The project would also include 

relocating the existing Johnson Road to provide better camp circulation and space, 

landscaping, site lighting, sewage lift stations, and utility upgrades. Provisions for persons 

with disabilities would be provided. This project is required to provide adequate outdoor 

camping opportunities for the Belvoir/NCR customers. The project would provide for the 

high demand for RV camp sites, and for those looking for cabin camping opportunities. 

This project would enhance the morale and quality of life of Soldiers, family members, 

retirees, and DoD civilians. Currently, there are no family travel campgrounds on-post for 

customers assigned to or supported by Fort Belvoir, or for those visiting the area. 

Customers are forced to seek service from commercially operated facilities that are 

overcrowded in the peak travel times, have higher cost, and are an average of 45 minutes 

from Washington, DC. 
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2.3 SCHEDULE 

Implementation of the various aspects of the proposed actions would occur until approximately 

the end of fiscal year 2011. Actions with respect to the land use plan revision would begin upon 

issuance of the ROD and continue until further revision of the master plan. Construction and 

renovation of facilities in support of base realignment and other requirements of Fort Belvoir 

would begin in fiscal year 2007 and continue through fiscal year 2011.
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