# Welcome to the Public Scoping Meeting 2015-2025 Facilities Master Plan EIS for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Edward R. Roybal Campus

# { } Purpose and Need for Project Objectives • Prepare a new campus plan for 2015 through 2025 to build upon the completed 2000 to 2009 plan • Support CDC’s mission and strategic vision • Accommodate the agency’s ever changing mission requirements • Provide a comprehensive roadmap for physical development— not a funding mechanism • Discover opportunities and constraints to develop a balanced carrying capacity • Explore a range of alternatives to ensure the highest and best use of land, facility and financial resources The CDC is planning to prepare a new Roybal Campus Facilities Master Plan for 2015-2025. The previous 2000-2009 Master Plan has been successfully implemented. The new Master Plan is needed in order for CDC to be able to respond quickly to new or increased mission requirements through additional campus construction or reconfiguration to meet new public health challenges at home and abroad.

# Master Plan Conceptual Alternatives 1. No Action; Status Quo • Retain 1996 parking cap of 3,300 • Maintain current intensity of uses • 1% annual campus growth 

### 2. Increase Existing Space Efficiency • Maximize existing office efficiency • Aggressively promote Alternative Workplace Solutions (AWS) to add more persons to Campus without major new office or lab construction • Construct new parking to accommodate AWS growth (size TBD)

# Master Plan Conceptual Alternatives 3. Laboratory and Office Mix • Office buildings (size TBD) • Laboratory buildings (size TBD) • Parking (size TBD) • Sub-alternatives: — Two office buildings + one lab + parking deck — Two labs + one office building + parking deck

# Master Plan Conceptual Alternatives 4. Office Program Focus • Office construction only (Size TBD) • No additional laboratory buildings • New parking (TBD) 

### 5. Laboratory Program Focus • Laboratory construction only (size TBD) • No additional office buildings • New parking (TBD)

# Master Plan Conceptual Alternatives 6. Relocation Alternatives • Organizational relocation options • Interface with Atlanta Housing Strategy

# EIS Key Concerns Growth in Study Area Transportation • Traffic • Pedestrian Circulation • Safety • Transit • Parking 

### Air Quality Infrastructure • Power • Water 

### Waste Stream Management Cumulative Impacts Community

# EIS – What is NEPA?

• Requires Federal agencies to take environmental factors into considerationwhen making significant decisions (largescale Campus Development Plans, for example) • Public disclosure of potential significant impacts to the natural and built environments from Federal activities • Actively solicits public participation 

### The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) establishes national policy for the protection of the environment. NEPA provides for consideration of environmental issues in federal agency planning and decision-making.

# Existing Conditions

•	 46.7 acre campus •	 Approximately 5,000 employees •	 19 existing buildings, 3.3 million GSF of laboratory, office and support space •	 3,300 parking spaces

Aerial image courtesy Google Earth.

# Resources to be Examined in the EIS to Date Natural Environment • Air Quality • Noise • Geology, Topography, and Soils • Water Resources • Vegetation and Wildlife 

### Infrastructure • Traffic, Parking and Transit • Pedestrian Circulation • Utilities 

### Built Environment • Land Use and Zoning • Public Policy • Population/Demographics • Economic Conditions • Community Facilities and Services • Cultural Resources

# EIS–What is NEPA?

Notice of Intent Scoping of EIS Prepare Draft EIS

Publish Draft EIS Minimum 45-Day Public Review Prepare and Publish Final EIS 30-Day Review Period

Issue Record of Decision We are here. Scoping Meeting January 2013

Public Hearing Summer/Fall 2013

Final Public Review Fall/Winter 2014 NEPA EIS Opportunity for Public Input

# EIS Study Area

# EIS–What is NEPA?

Notice of Intent Scoping of EIS Prepare Draft EIS

Publish Draft EIS Minimum 45-Day Public Review Prepare and Publish Final EIS 30-Day Review Period

Issue Record of Decision We are here. Scoping Meeting January 2013

Public Hearing Summer/Fall 2013

Final Public Review Fall/Winter 2014 NEPA EIS Opportunity for Public Input

# Scoping Comments

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments. • Mail: George F. Chandler, Senior Advisor, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, N.E., Mailstop A-22 Atlanta, Georgia 30333 • Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name and Docket Number. All relevant comments received will be posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov including any personal information provided. For access to the docket to read background documents or comments received, go to http://www.regulations.gov 

### Written comments identified by Docket

No. CDC-2012-0013 can be submitted by any of the following methods on or before February 1, 2013: