Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 10 / Friday, January 14, 2022 / Notices 2417 

U.S. Consumer Product Safety 

Commission, 4330 East-West Highway, 

Bethesda, MD 20814, 301–504–7479 

(Office) or 240–863–8938 (Cell). 

Dated: January 11, 2022. 

Alberta E. Mills, 

Commission Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2022–00771 Filed 1–12–22; 11:15 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Air Force 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Foreign Military Sales Pilot 

Training Center Beddown at Ebbing Air 

National Guard Base, Arkansas or 

Selfridge Air National Guard Base, 

Michigan 

AGENCY: Department of the Air Force, 

Department of Defense. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the Air 

Force (Air Force) is issuing this notice 

to advise the public of its intent to 

prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) for the Foreign Military 

Sales (FMS) Pilot Training Center (PTC) 

beddown at a single Continental United 

Sates (CONUS) location at either Ebbing 

Air National Guard (ANG) Base, 

Arkansas or Selfridge ANG Base, 

Michigan. The EIS will assess the 

potential environmental consequences 

resulting from construction or 

renovation of facilities and aircraft 

operation of the proposal for the 

permanent beddown of the FMS PTC, 

encompassing up to 16 F–16 aircraft and 

36 F–35 aircraft. 

DATES: A public scoping period of 30- 

days will take place starting from the 

date of this NOI publication in the 

Federal Register. Comments will be 

accepted at any time during the 

environmental impact analysis process; 

however, to ensure the Air Force has 

sufficient time to consider public 

scoping comments during the 

preparation of the Draft EIS, please 

submit comments within the 30-day 

period; by February 14, 2022, to the 

website or mailed to one of the 

addresses listed below. 

The Air Force plans to hold two 

virtual scoping meetings to solicit 

comments on potential alternatives and 

impacts and identification of any 

relevant information, studies, or 

analyses of any kind concerning impacts 

affecting the quality of the human 

environment regarding the Proposed 

Action. The scoping meetings will be 

held on the dates and times below: 

• Tuesday, February 1, 2022: 6 p.m.–8 

p.m. CST 

• Thursday, February 3, 2022: 6 p.m.– 

8 p.m. CST 

To register to attend a virtual public 

scoping meeting and sign-up to provide 

a verbal comment, visit 

www.FMSPTCEIS.com. Meeting links 

and instructions will be distributed after 

registering and prior to all virtual public 

scoping meetings. All public scoping 

meetings can be accessed by phone at 1– 

877–853–5247; Meeting ID: 814 7750 

7399; Meeting Password: 36126569. 

Major milestone dates, are as follows: 

• Draft EIS and Notice of Availability 

(NOA) publication, Fall 2022 

• Draft EIS Public Comment Period and 

Hearing, Fall 2022 

• Final EIS and NOA publication, 

Winter 2022/2023 

• Record of Decision signature, Spring 

2023 

ADDRESSES: Additional information on 

the FMS PTC EIS environmental impact 

analysis process can be found on the 

project website at 

www.FMSPTCEIS.com. The project 

website can also be used to submit 

inquiries, comments, and requests for 

printed or digital copies of the scoping 

material or to Mr. David Martin at (210) 

925–2741 or directed to: U.S. Post Office 

Deliveries: FMS PTC EIS Project 

Manager, AFCEC/CZN, 2261 Hughes 

Avenue, Suite 155, JBSA Lackland, TX 

78236 9853. FedEx & UPS Deliveries: 

FMS PTC EIS Project Manager, AFCEC/ 

CZN, 3515 S General McMullen, Suite 

155, San Antonio, TX 78226–2018. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of the Air Force proposes to 

beddown the FMS PTC, comprised of 

up to 16 F–16 aircraft of the Republic 

of Singapore Air Force (RSAF), and up 

to 36 F–35 FMS aircraft. The FMS PTC 

mission will operate under the direction 

of the Air Force Air Education and 

Training Command (AETC). 

The purpose of the Proposed Action 

is to establish a permanent FMS PTC, 

initially providing beddown of up to 36 

F–35 aircraft, at a single location within 

CONUS. The Proposed Action is needed 

to provide a centralized location for 

training and pilot production associated 

with Foreign Military Sales. Multiple 

nations have agreements with the Air 

Force to purchase F–35 aircraft. This 

drives the need for a location suitable 

for initial F–35 training before returning 

to their home country. The Republic of 

Singapore is among the nations 

purchasing F–35s and plans to keep 

some of their aircraft in the U.S. for an 

indefinite period of time. Additionally, 

the Republic of Singapore would 

relocate 16 F–16s from Luke AFB, 

Arizona, to the FMS PTC location. 

The EIS will analyze Ebbing and 

Selfridge ANG Bases as alternatives for 

the implementing the Proposed Action 

described above, as well as a No Action 

Alternative. The alternatives were 

developed to minimize adverse mission 

impact, maximize facility reuse, 

minimize cost, and reduce overhead, as 

well as leverage the strengths of each 

base to optimize the FMS PTC strategy. 

The potential impacts of the Proposed 

Action and Alternatives (including No 

Action Alternative) that the EIS will 

examine include impacts to land use, 

airspace, safety, noise, hazardous 

materials and solid waste, physical 

resources (including earth and water 

resources), air quality, transportation, 

cultural resources, biological resources, 

socioeconomics, and environmental 

justice resulting from construction and 

renovation at the installation and 

aircraft operation. The Air Force is 

preparing this EIS in accordance with 

the National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) of 1969; 40 Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR), Parts 1500–1508, the 

Council on Environmental Quality 

(CEQ) regulations implementing NEPA; 

and the Air Force’s Environmental 

Impact Analysis Process (EIAP) as 

codified in 32 CFR part 989. 

Scoping and Agency Coordination: 

The scoping process will be used to 

involve the public early in the planning 

and development of the EIS, to help 

identify issues to be addressed in the 

environmental analysis. To effectively 

define the full range of issues and 

concerns to be evaluated in the EIS, the 

Air Force is soliciting scoping 

comments from interested local, state, 

and federal agencies and interested 

members of the public. The Federal 

Aviation Administration has been 

requested to be a Cooperating Agency 

for this action. 

Due to the evolving nature of the 

current COVID crisis, the Air Force will 

hold two virtual public scoping 

meetings to inform the public and 

solicit comments and concerns about 

the proposal. Scoping meetings will be 

held online via www.FMSPTCEIS.com. 

Local notices identifying scheduled 

dates, and information for accessing 

each meeting, will be published a 

minimum of fifteen (15) days prior to 

each meeting. 

Adriane S. Paris, 

Air Force Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2022–00695 Filed 1–13–22; 8:45 am] 

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