Appendix K

 Final

Environmental Impact Statement for

Implementation of 

2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) 

Recommendations and Related Army Actions at

Fort Belvoir, Virginia

prepared by

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District

with Technical Assistance from

Tetra Tech, Inc.

Fairfax, Virginia 22030

June 2007
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Appendix K 

Comments Received on the Draft EIS and Responses 

K.1 – Comment Methodology and Summary 

K.2 – Comments

K.3 – Comment Response Matrix
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Comment Methodology and Summary
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Comment Response Methodology 

The Army received 88 sets of comments on the draft EIS. This included transcripts of oral 

testimony from 7 elected officials and 19 citizens at the DEIS public meeting and 62 written 

comments (via letters, electronic mail, and the belvoirbrac-eis.net website). 

Comments were assigned to one of four categories based on the organization that submitted them 

as follows. The lettered designation is part of the comment number assigned to the comment: 

• Federal agencies and elected officials (F) (6 comments) 

• Local agencies and organizations (L) (18 comments) 

• Public citizens and other citizen organizations (P) (58 comments) 

• State agencies (S) (6 comments) 

Within each category, each comment was assigned a number. The text of the comments were 

then divided into specific issues pertaining to the same resource area or the same topic within a 

single resource area. Each of the issues were labeled with a comment number. For example, 

comment F1 contains 4 issues numbered F1.1, F1.2, F1.3, and F1.4. There were 886 specific 

issues identified within the 88 comments submitted. The Army prepared responses to each issue. 

The comments were entered into an Access database, which contains such information as 

commenter name, organization, and address, resource area the comment pertains to, and the 

delivery format in which the comment was received. 

The first half of this appendix contains all the sets of comments in the format they were originally 

received (letters, electronic mail, etc). The second half of this appendix contains a matrix of the 

comment blocks as well as the responses to those comments. The comment numbers on the 

original comments match the comment numbers in the matrix containing the responses. In both 

the original comments and the matrix, they are in alpha-numeric order by organization category 

(F, L, P, S). 

The breakdown of the 886 issues by resource area is as follows. A listing of general themes of 

the comments within each resource area is also provided. The Army’s responses for the themes 

are provided in the matrix in the second half of this appendix. 

• Transportation (269 issues) 

o Commitment to fund transportation mitigation projects 

o Identification of responsible (lead) agencies and timelines for mitigating actions 

o Adoption of transportation mitigation projects and completing designs/studies 

o Trails and non-motorized transportation 

o Requests for further details examining long-term elements of the transportation 

network 

o Study needs to consider rail to Fort Belvoir 

o Transportation modeling and analyses assumptions 

o Army Museum traffic impacts 

• General (Proposed Action, DOPAA, Other, Land Use, Cumulative Impacts) (263 

issues) 

o Changes to land use plan, particularly removal of environmentally sensitive 

category 

o Consideration of GSA Parcel as part of the preferred alternative 

o Ability to meet Congressionally-mandated 2011 BRAC deadline 
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o Need for meetings with all stakeholders involved with BRAC action 

o Impacts of support contractors that would follow DoD agencies coming to Fort 

Belvoir (“contractor tail”) 

• Air Quality (69 issues) 

o General Conformity Determination and compliance with air quality regulations 

o Transportation congestion and impacts on air quality 

o Regional mobile emissions 

• Natural Resources (Geology and Soils, Water Resources, Biological Resources)

(118 issues)

o Impacts on surface water runoff

o Chesapeake Bay resource protection areas encroachment

o Impacts on wildlife, threatened and endangered species, and wetlands

o Protection of Environmental Quality Corridors

• Cultural Resources and Aesthetics and Visual Resources (84 issues)

o Impacts on both on- and off-post historic resources

o Compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act

• Socioeconomics (37 issues)

o Impacts of projected changes in the number of school-age children on the school 

systems 

o Projected population and housing changes 

o Changes in availability of recreational facilities 

• Other (Noise, Utilities, Hazardous Materials and Hazardous Substances) (46 

issues) 

o Noise impacts from construction and operation activities 

o Compliance with energy efficiency regulations and guidelines 

o Corrective action activities to clean up sites proposed for BRAC development 

Table K-1 provides a list and agencies and citizens of those who provided comments on the Draft 

EIS. 

Table K-1 

Commenters on the Draft EIS 

Comment 

Number Name and Title Organization 

F1 Jim Webb, Senator U.S. Senate 

F2 Jim Moran, Congressman U.S. House of Representatives 

F3 Tom Davis, Congressman U.S. House of Representatives 

F4 Roberto Fonsera Martinez, Division Administrator Federal Highway Administration 

F5 Michael Chezik, Regional Environmental Officer U.S. Department of Interior 

F6 William Arguto, NEPA Team Leader EPA Region 3 

L1 Gerald Connolly, Chairman (Written Comments) Fairfax County Board of Supervisors 

L2 Gerald Connolly, Chairman (Oral Testimony) Fairfax County Board of Supervisors 

L3 Gerry Hyland, Mount Vernon District Supervisor Fairfax County Board of Supervisors 

L4 Dana Kauffman, Lee District Supervisor Fairfax County Board of Supervisors 
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Comment 

Number Name and Title Organization 

L5 Gerald Connolly, Chairman (Written Comments) Fairfax County – Multiagency Letter 

L6 Jack D. Dale, Superintendent Fairfax County Public Schools 

L7 John A. Magarelli, Senior Civil Engineer WMATA 

L8 John Pellegrin, member (Written Comments) The South County Project Steering 

Committee 

L9 John Pellegrin, member (Oral Testimony) The South County Project Steering 

Committee 

L10 Rich Baier, Director Alexandria Transportation & 

Environmental Services 

L11 Pat Thomas, Potomac Communities Planner Prince William County Planning 

Office 

L12 Gerald Lyons Mason Neck Citizens Association 

L13 Judy Riggin, Clerk, Community Developments 

Committee Woodlawn Friends Meeting 

L14 Glenda Booth, Vice President (Written Comments) Audubon Society of Northern 

Virginia 

L15 Glenda Booth, Vice President (Oral Testimony) Audubon Society of Northern 

Virginia 

L16 C. Flint Webb, P.E. (Oral Testimony) 

Fairfax County Citizens 

Associations Environmental 

Committee 

L17 Frank Cohn, Chair, Transportation Committee Mount Vernon Council of Citizens 

Association 

L18 Patricia Gallagher, Executive Director National Capital Planning 

Commission (NCPC) 

P1 Eileen Hurley Private Citizen 

P2 John Hurley Private Citizen 

P3 Gerald Lyons (Written Comments) Mason Neck Citizens Association 

(MNCA) 

P4 Gary Kitchen Private Citizen 

P5 Yolanda Nicholson Private Citizen 

P6 No Name Available Private Citizen 

P7 No Name Available Private Citizen 

P8 David Kerner Private Citizen 

P9 Colonel Michael Brownell Private Citizen 

P10 Dianne Kelly Private Citizen 

P11 Lee Schroeder, Marine Safety Data Analyst Private Citizen 

P12 Frank Cohn, Chairman, Transportation Committee Mount Vernon council of Citizens 

P13 Robert McLaren (Written Comments) Private Citizen 

P14 Dale Dendra Private Citizen 

P15 David and Jo-Anne Clark Private Citizen 

P16 Gerald Lyons, Community Representative (Written 

Comments) Communities of Mason Neck 

P17 Martha Catlin Private Citizen 

P18 Joseph Chudzik Private Citizen 

P19 John Sperling (Written Comments) Private Citizen 

P20 Nancy James Religious Society of Friends 

(Quakers) 
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Commenters on the Draft EIS 

Comment 

Number Name and Title Organization 

P21 Phillip Latasa Friends of Accotink Creek 

P22 Tracey Paddock Private Citizen 

P23 Lee Schroeder Private Citizen 

P24 Gail Gillespie, MGSgt USMC 

P25 Roger Diedrich Great Falls Group, Sierra Club 

P26 C. Flint Webb, P.E. (Written Comments) Private Citizen 

P27 Sallie Lyons (Written Comments) Private Citizen 

P28 David Hilde Clark Realty Capital, L.L.C. 

P29 Pam Cressey Private Citizen 

P30 Dale Zehner, Chief Executive Officer Virginia Railway Express 

P31 Robert McLaren (Oral Testimony) Private Citizen 

P32 Larry Zaragoza Private Citizen 

P33 Neal McBride Private Citizen 

P34 Gerald Musarra Private Citizen 

P35 Patricia Tyson Private Citizen 

P36 Norm Starler Private Citizen 

P37 John Hurley Private Citizen 

P38 Sallie Lyons (Oral Testimony) Private Citizen 

P39 John Sperling (Oral Testimony) Private Citizen 

P40 Mark Gionet Private Citizen 

P41 Monica Thompson Private Citizen 

P42 Yolanda Nicholson Private Citizen 

P43 Earl Flanagan Private Citizen 

P44 Newman Howard Private Citizen 

P45 Joseph Bury Towns at Manchester Woods 

Homeowners Association 

P46 Dennis Steiner NGA 

P47 Linda Stone Private Citizen 

P48 John Sperling (Written Comments) Private Citizen 

P49 John Cooley, President Civic Association of West 

Springfield Village 

P50 Jodi Lasky Private Citizen 

P51 Arlene Dukanauskas Private Citizen 

P52 Catherin Rubino Private Citizen 

P53 Terry Bowers Private Citizen 

P54 Thomas Kays Private Citizen 

P55 Jerrold Allen Alexandria Friends Meeting at 

Woodlawn 

P56 Maggie Heninger Private Citizen 

P57 E.L. Tennyson Private Citizen 

P58 Sylvia Seegrist Private Citizen 

S1 Vivian Watts, Delegate 39th District Virginia House of Delegates 
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Commenters on the Draft EIS 

Comment 

Number Name and Title Organization 

S2 Ellie Irons, Program Manager Virginia Department of 

Environmental Quality 

S3 Marc Holma, Agricultural Historian Virginia Department of Historic 

Resources 

S4 Pierce Homer, Secretary of Transportation (Written 

Comments) 

Virginia Department of 

Transportation (VDOT) 

S5 Pierce Homer, Secretary of Transportation (Oral 

Testimony) VDOT 

S6 R.N. Harrington, Manager, Planning and Environmental 

Section Department of Aviation (Virginia) 
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Appendix K.2 

Comments Received on the Draft EIS 
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