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Pursuant to 41 CFR 102–3.105(j) and 

102–3.140, the public or interested 

organizations may submit written 

statements to the membership of the 

MDAC in response to the stated agenda 

of the planned meeting or at any time. 

Written statements pertaining to a 

specific topic being discussed at a 

planned meeting of the MDAC must be 

submitted to the MDAC’s DFO no later 

than seven business days prior to the 

meeting in question. Written statements 

that do not pertain to a scheduled 

meeting of the MDAC may be submitted 

at any time. All written statements 

should be forwarded to the DFO at the 

aforementioned information contact and 

address in the following formats: One 

hard copy with original signature and 

one electronic copy via e-mail 

(acceptable file formats: Adobe Acrobat 

PDF, MS Word or MS PowerPoint). The 

DFO will review all submitted written 

statements and provide copies to all the 

committee members. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to 5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended, and 41 

CFR 102–3.155, the Department of 

Defense has determined that the 

meeting shall be closed to the public. 

The Under Secretary of Defense 

(Acquisition, Logistics and Technology), 

in consultation with the Office of the 

Department of Defense General Counsel, 

has determined in writing that the 

public interest requires that all sessions 

of this meeting be closed to the public 

because they will be concerned with 

matters listed in section 552b(c)(1) of 

Title 5, United States Code. 

Dated: August 20, 2007. 

C.R. Choate, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Office, Department of Defense. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Sunshine Act Meeting; Missile Defense 

Advisory Committee (MDAC) 

AGENCY: Department of Defense. 

ACTION: Notice of closed meeting. 

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act of 

1972 (5 U.S.C., Appendix, as amended) 

and the Sunshine in the Government 

Act of 1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended) 

the Department of Defense (DoD) 

announces the following Federal 

Advisory Committee meeting. 

Name of Committee: Missile Defense 

Advisory Committee (MDAC). 

Dates of Meeting: September 5–6, 

2007. 

Location: 7100 Defense Pentagon, 

Washington, DC 20301–7100. 

Time: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Purpose of Meeting: At this meeting, 

the Committee will receive classified 

briefings by MDA senior staff, Program 

Managers, senior DoD leaders, 

representatives from industry and the 

Services on the appropriate role for 

MDA in Cruise Missile Defense (CMD). 

The mission of the MDAC is to 

provide the Department of Defense 

advice on all matters relating to missile 

defense, including system development, 

technology, program maturity and 

readiness of configurations of the 

Ballistic Missile Defense System to enter 

the acquisition process. 

Proposed Agenda: Topics tentatively 

scheduled for discussion includes, but 

is not limited to administrative work; 

responsibilities for CMD development; 

current MDA CMD capabilities and 

responsibilities; review of governing 

directives; and CMD capabilities 

development programs for the Services. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: COL 

Mark Zamberlan, Designated Federal 

Official (DFO) at mdac@mda.mil, 

phone/voice mail (703) 695–6438, or 

mail at 7100 Defense Pentagon, 

Washington, DC 20301–7100. 

Pursuant to 41 CFR 102–3.105(j) and 

102–3.140, the public or interested 

organizations may submit written 

statements to the membership of the 

MDAC in response to the stated agenda 

of the planned meeting or at any time. 

Written statements pertaining to a 

specific topic being discussed at a 

planned meeting of the MDAC must be 

submitted to the MDAC’s DFO no later 

than seven business days prior to the 

meeting in question. Written statements 

that do not pertain to a scheduled 

meeting of the MDAC may be submitted 

at any time. All written statements 

should be forwarded to the DFO at the 

aforementioned information contact and 

address in the following formats: One 

hard copy with original signature and 

one electronic copy via e-mail 

(acceptable file formats: Adobe Acrobat 

PDF, MS Word or MS PowerPoint). The 

DFO will review all submitted written 

statements and provide copies to all the 

committee members. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to 5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended, and 41 

CFR 102–3.155, the Department of 

Defense has determined that the 

meeting shall be closed to the public. 

The Under Secretary of Defense 

(Acquisition, Logistics and Technology), 

in consultation with the Office of the 

Department of Defense General Counsel, 

has determined in writing that the 

public interest requires that all sessions 

of this meeting be closed to the public 

because they will be concerned with 

matters listed in section 552(c)(1) of 

Title 5, United States Code. 

Dated: August 20, 2007. 

C.R. Choate, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Office, Department of Defense. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

Notice of Availability of the Draft 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement (DPEIS) for Army Growth 

and Force Structure Realignment 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability (NOA). 

SUMMARY: The Department of the Army 

announces the availability of a DPEIS 

for the growth and realignment of the 

U.S. Army. Pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the 

Department of the Army has prepared a 

DPEIS that evaluates the potential 

environmental and socioeconomic 

effects associated with alternatives for 

growing and realigning the Army’s force 

structure. Potential impacts have been 

analyzed at installations which are 

being considered for the stationing of 

1,000 or more Soldiers in efforts to grow 

and realign the Army. 

DATES: Written comments on the DPEIS 

will be accepted for 45 days following 

the publication of a Notice of 

Availability in the Federal Register by 

the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ADDRESSES: Send all written comments 

and suggestions concerning this DPEIS 

to: Public Affairs Office, U.S. Army 

Environmental Command, Building 

E4460, Attention: IMAE–PA, 5179 

Hoadley Road, Aberdeen Proving 

Ground, MD 21010–5401. Comments 

may also be sent to: 

PublicComments@aec.apgea.army.mil. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Public Affairs Office at (410) 436–2556; 

facsimile at (410) 436–1693 (during 

normal business hours Monday through 

Friday). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Proposed Action and analysis within 

the DPEIS covers those activities needed 

to increase the Army’s end strength and 

realign its force structure from Fiscal 

Year 2008 through Fiscal Year 2013 to 

a size and composition that is better 


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able to meet national security and 

defense requirements. The Proposed 

Action involves stationing decisions to 

align Army forces in support of military 

transformation, unit equipment and 

training readiness, and Soldier and 

Family quality of life needs. To 

implement the Proposed Action, new 

units must be stationed at locations that 

are able to accommodate unit training, 

garrison operations, maintenance 

activities, and Soldiers and their 

Families. In addition, final stationing 

locations must support the strategic 

deployment and mobilization 

requirements of the nation’s Combatant 

Commanders to ensure they will have 

the forces necessary to support regional 

contingency operations and planning 

requirements. 

The current global security 

environment is turbulent, 

unpredictable, and rapidly changing. It 

has placed considerable demands on the 

nation’s military, and highlighted the 

need for the Army to correct shortfalls 

in high-demand skills while conducting 

a thorough assessment of its force 

capabilities. No one has felt the impacts 

from the increased demands of the 

modern security environment more than 

the Soldiers and Families of the U.S. 

Armed Forces. To meet the challenges 

posed by a wider range of security 

threats present in the 21st century, the 

Army requires the growth and 

restructuring of its forces in order to 

sustain the broad range of operations 

needed to ensure national and global 

stability. 

The DPEIS is being prepared to 

comply with NEPA (42 U.S.C. and et 

seq.) and meet Army NEPA procedures, 

which are outlined in Environmental 

Analysis of Army Actions (32 CFR Part 

651). These regulations require the 

Army to consider the environmental 

and socioeconomic impacts of its 

proposed action and alternatives and to 

solicit the views of the public, so it can 

make an informed final decision 

regarding how to proceed. 

The DPEIS examines major Army 

training installations and their ability to 

support new unit stationing actions in 

connection with the growth and 

realignment of the U.S. Army. The 

DPEIS will provide the Army senior 

leadership with a hard look at 

environmental and socioeconomic 

impacts associated with the Proposed 

Action and inform the decision-making 

process for selecting the final stationing 

locations for new units. This effort 

includes analysis of specific actions that 

will need to be taken (such as the 

construction of housing and quality of 

life facilities, the construction of new 

training ranges and infrastructure, and 

changes in the intensity of use of 

maneuver land and firing ranges) to 

station new units as part of the Army’s 

overall efforts to grow and realign the 

force. 

After reviewing a full range of 

alternatives sites, 17 installations 

capable of supporting the Army’s 

growth and realignment have been 

evaluated for their ability to support 

three action alternatives. The 

installations carried forward for analysis 

include: Fort Benning, GA; Fort Bragg, 

NC; Fort Bliss, TX; Fort Campbell, KY; 

Fort Carson, CO; Fort Drum, NY; Fort 

Hood, TX; Fort Hunter-Liggett, CA; Fort 

Irwin, CA; Fort Knox, KY; Fort Lewis, 

WA; Fort Polk, LA; Fort Riley, KS; Fort 

Stewart, GA; White Sands Missile 

Range, NM; Yakima Training Center, 

WA; and Yuma Proving Grounds, AZ. 

Each of these installations could receive 

1,000 or more additional Soldiers as 

part of alternatives being examined. 

Alternatives carried forward for 

analysis in the DPEIS include; (1) 

Implementing Army force structure 

modifications between Fiscal Years 

2008 and 2013 to support the Army’s 

Modular transformation and Global 

Defense Posture Review (GDPR) 

decisions; (2) Executing those actions 

discussed as part of Alternative 1 and, 

in addition, adding approximately 

30,000 Combat Support (CS) and 

Combat Service Support (CSS) Soldiers 

to the Army to address critical shortfalls 

in high demand military skills in both 

Active Army and Reserve components; 

(3) Executing those actions proposed in 

Alternatives 1 and 2 and, in addition, 

grow the Army by up to 6 Active Duty 

Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs). 

Additional BCTs would be stationed at 

existing or newly established Army 

stationing locations within the 

continental United States. In addition to 

these alternatives, the No Action 

Alternative is described and its impacts 

are fully assessed and considered. 

Analysis within the DPEIS covers 

those activities required to implement 

unit stationing actions associated with 

Army growth and realignment. Sitespecific actions which will need to be 

taken include the construction of 

housing and quality of life facilities (i.e., 

gymnasiums, hospitals, shopping areas), 

the construction of new training ranges 

and infrastructure, and changes in the 

intensity of use of maneuver land and 

firing ranges associated with the 

increased frequency of training events. 

Stationing decisions made as part of this 

effort will also consider strategic 

military and national security 

considerations, New stationing actions 

must take place at locations which, if 

selected, are capable of supporting the 

National Security Strategy (2006), the 

Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR, 

2006), National Military Strategy, and 

the Army Campaign Plan (ACP). 

Direct, indirect, and cumulative 

impacts of the Proposed Action have 

been considered in the DPEIS. The 

DPEIS identifies the environmental and 

socioeconomic impacts associated with 

various unit stationing actions at each of 

the 17 installations carried forward for 

analysis. Impacts at sites would result 

from construction and training activities 

related to the growth and realignment of 

Army forces. Significant impacts to 

resources could be direct and long term. 

Decisions from the PEIS will be tiered 

into site-specific NEPA analysis at the 

installation level as specific stationing 

decisions are determined. The DPEIS 

will provide Army planners and 

decision makers with critical and timely 

information on the capacity and 

condition of each of the installation’s 

environmental and socioeconomic 

resources preceding specific stationing 

actions. The No Action Alternative 

provides the baseline conditions for 

comparison to proposed alternatives. 

Additional concerns or impacts may be 

identified as a result of comments 

received on the DPEIS. 

The Army invites full public 

participation to promote open 

communication and better decision 

making. All persons and organizations 

that have an interest in the growth and 

realignment of the Army’s forces and 

associated stationing actions are invited 

to participate in this NEPA evaluation 

process. Assistance will be provided 

upon request to anyone having 

difficulty understanding how to 

participate. 

The availability of the PDEIS for 

public comment will also be announced 

through notices and national and local 

media news releases. Information on the 

DPEIS will be posted on the U.S. Army 

Environmental Command’s Web site 

(www.aec.army.mil) for public access 

during the public comment period. 

Dated: August 15, 2007. 

Addison D. Davis, IV, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army 

(Environment, Safety and Occupational 

Health). 

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