48542 Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 161 / Monday, August 21, 2006 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Strategic Environmental Research and 

Development Program, Scientific 

Advisory Board 

AGENCY: Department of Defense. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: This Notice is published in 

accordance with Section 10(a)(2) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. 

L. 92–463). The topic of the meeting on 

September 12–14, 2006 are to review 

new start and continuing research and 

development projects requesting 

Strategic Environmental Research and 

Development Program funds in excess 

of $1M. This meeting is open to the 

public. Any interested person may 

attend, appear before, or file statements 

with the Scientific Advisory Board at 

the time and in the manner permitted by 

the Board. 

DATES: September 12, 2006 from 10:30 

a.m. to 5 p.m.; September 13 from 8:30 

a.m. to 5 p.m.; and September 14, 2006 

from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: SERDP Program Office 

Conference Center, 901 North Stuart 

Street, Suite 804, Arlington, VA 22203. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Misa Jensen, SERDP Program Office, 901 

North Stuart Street, Suite 303, 

Arlington, VA or by telephone at (703) 

696–2126. 

Dated: August 15, 2006. 

C.R. Choate, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 06–7038 Filed 8–18–06; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

Preparation of the Brigade Combat 

Team Transformation Programmatic 

Environmental Impact Statement 

(PEIS), Fort Irwin, CA 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: The Army Installation 

Management Agency and the Fort Irwin 

National Training Center will prepare a 

PEIS to analyze the impacts of mission 

realignment in support of the Army 

Transformation, the Army Campaign 

Plan, and other Army initiatives. Under 

the proposed action, the 11th Armored 

Cavalry Regiment will expand to 

become a full-size, multi-component 

Heavy Brigade Combat Team (BCT), 

deployable throughout the world. Other, 

smaller units will also be stationed at 

Fort Irwin. Training rotations will 

increase from 10 per year to 12. The 

PEIS will evaluate the new construction, 

new land use, and changes in training, 

area use necessary to implement the 

proposed action at Fort Irwin. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Public Affairs Office: Major John 

Clearwater, Attention: IMSW–IRW–PA 

Fort Irwin, CA 92310; telephone: (760) 

380–3078; or Directorate of Public 

Works: Mr. Mickey Quillman, Attention: 

PEIS; IMSW–IRW–PWE, Building 602, 

Fort Irwin, CA 92310; fax: (760) 380–

2677, or e-mail 

mickey.quillman@irwin.army.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The PEIS 

will assess the environmental impacts 

associated with the stationing and 

training of new soldiers at Fort Irwin. 

Under the proposed action, 

approximately 690 additional soldiers 

would be stationed at Fort Irwin, with 

approximately 760 family members 

accompanying them. The proposed 

action will increase training by about 

20% on all Fort Irwin training areas and 

may involve some new range 

construction. This increased usage will 

ultimately involve the maneuver 

training areas into which Fort Irwin 

expanded, as decided in 2006. The 

proposed action will result in additional 

construction in the Fort Irwin 

cantonment area for such projects as 

soldier and family housing, schools, 

infrastructure, utilities, and related 

facilities. These changes would provide 

the capability to train additional units 

and represent a realignment of existing 

missions for the installation. The action 

may have environmental impacts to air 

quality, water usage, waste water and 

other utilities, and biological resources. 

Fort Irwin will continue to train 

rotational units and would now support 

the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment 

(ACR), a multi-component Heavy BCT. 

A range of reasonable alternatives, 

including an alternative of considering 

no action as required by the National 

Environmental Policy Act, will be 

developed and analyzed in the PEIS. 

The range of alternatives will include 

varying amounts of new construction 

and training area changes. During the 

scoping process, other alternatives may 

be developed and added for 

consideration. The PEIS will also 

analyze each alternative’s impact upon 

the natural, cultural, and man-made 

environments at Fort Irwin and in the 

surrounding region. 

Tribal, Federal, state and local 

agencies, as well as the public are 

invited to participate in the scoping 

process for the preparation of this PEIS. 

Scoping meetings will be held in 

convenient locations near the 

installation. Notification of the times 

and locations for the scoping meetings 

will be published in local newspapers. 

The scoping process will help identify 

additional possible alternatives, 

potential environmental impacts, and 

key issues of concern to be analyzed in 

the PEIS. To ensure scoping comments 

are fully considered in the Draft PEIS, 

comments and suggestions should be 

received within the 30-day scoping 

period or no later than 15 days 

following the last scoping meeting, 

whichever is later. 

Dated: August 8, 2006. 

Addison D. Davis, IV, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army, 

(Environment, Safety and Occupational 

Health), OASA(I&E). 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army; Corps of 

Engineers 

Notice of Availability for the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement/ 

Environmental Impact Report for the 

Berth 97–109 Container Terminal 

Project, Los Angeles County, CA 

AGENCY: Department of the Army—U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Los Angeles District 

(Regulatory Branch), in coordination 

with the Port of Los Angeles, has 

completed a Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement/Environmental 

Impact Report (EIS/EIR) for the Berth 

97–109 Container Terminal Project. The 

Port of Los Angeles requires 

authorization pursuant to Section 404 of 

the Clean Water Act and Section 10 of 

the Rivers and Harbors Act for wharf 

and terminal development (142 acres) in 

three phases, dredging up to 41,000 

cubic yards of sediment, construction of 

two new concrete pile-supported 

wharves (for a total of 2,500 feet), new 

terminal buildings and two new 

terminal bridges. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions or comments concerning the 

Draft EIS/EIR should be directed to Dr. 

Aaron O. Allen, Senior Project Manager, 

Regulatory Branch, U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, P.O. Box 532711, Los 

Angeles, CA 90053–2325, (805) 585–

2148. 


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