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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

Record of Decision for the Proposed 

Heavy Off-Road Mounted Maneuver 

Training Area at Fort Benning, Georgia 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, 

Department of Defense. 

ACTION: Notice of availability (NOA). 

SUMMARY: The Department of the Army 

(Army) announces the availability of its 

Record of Decision (ROD) for the 

proposed Heavy Off-Road Mounted 

Maneuver Training Area (HOMMTA) at 

Fort Benning, Georgia. In accordance 

with the National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA), the ROD identifies the 

Army’s Selected Alternative (and basis 

for its selection), the Environmentally 

Preferred Alternative, and the mitigation 

measures the Army commits to 

implement with the Selected 

Alternative. The ROD is based on the 

results of the Army’s Final 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

that analyzed the potential 

environmental and socioeconomic 

impacts associated with constructing, 

operating, and maintaining a HOMMTA 

of at least 2,400 contiguous acres at Fort 

Benning to support off-road mounted 

maneuver (Proposed Action). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Please contact Mr. John Brown, Fort 

Benning Environmental Management 

Division, at john.e.brown12.civ@

mail.mil or (706) 545–7549 between 9 

a.m. and 4 p.m. ET. Fort Benning has 

also established a web page that 

contains information updates and 

background on the HOMMTA Final EIS 

and ROD, including the materials 

identified in this NOA, at https://

www.benning.army.mil/Garrison/DPW/ 

EMD/HOMMTA/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Proposed Action will support the 

Maneuver Center of Excellence (MCoE) 

in its mission to train maneuver soldiers 

and leaders of the Army and would 

increase the total amount of heavy offroad maneuver training area on Fort 

Benning, enabling the Army to conduct 

realistic training in accordance with 

current Army training requirements. 

The Proposed Action will provide a 

training area to meet existing training 

needs; it will not result in additional 

soldiers, traffic, or any training off of the 

Installation. Training land development 

will occur over a 2- to 3-year period; 

development will primarily include 

vegetation removal and the construction 

of tank trails, culverted water crossings, 

and road upgrades, as well as burying 

existing overhead utilities. As feasible, 

buffers will be used to protect 

environmentally sensitive resources 

such as streams, wetlands, cemeteries, 

and archaeological sites. 

Fort Benning serves a critical role in 

supporting the Army’s overarching 

mission. Fort Benning’s institutional 

training provides Army leaders with the 

opportunity to respond to a wide variety 

of situations that they can expect to 

encounter on the modern battlefield. 

Fort Benning must be able to train and 

develop highly skilled and cohesive 

units capable of conducting operations 

across the full spectrum of potential 

conflicts. Inherent in and vital to 

training Infantry and Armor soldiers 

and leaders properly is the requirement 

to provide sufficient heavy off-road 

mounted maneuver training area. 

Currently, the only training area at 

Fort Benning suitable for heavy off-road 

mounted maneuver training is the Good 

Hope Maneuver Training Area 

(GHMTA), which contains various 

environmental constraints that cannot 

support the maneuver training 

requirements of the MCoE. As such, Fort 

Benning proposed to construct a new 

HOMMTA with sufficient contiguous 

area to enable all units and courses to 

complete required cross-domain 

movement and maneuver training. 

The Final EIS, published on February 

26, 2021 and supported by other 

studies, analyses, and permit 

applications to meet Federal 

requirements (e.g., the Endangered 

Species Act and Clean Water Act), 

analyzed the potential environmental 

and socioeconomic impacts associated 

with the Proposed Action, including 

direct, indirect, and cumulative effects. 

The Final EIS responded to comments 

received on the Draft EIS. The Final EIS 

also identified mitigation measures that 

the Army may implement to reduce 

potential adverse impacts. 

The Army studied three reasonable 

Action Alternatives (i.e., three distinct 

locations on Fort Benning where a 

HOMMTA could be constructed) that 

would meet the purpose of and need for 

the Proposed Action: 

Alternative 1 (Preferred Alternative): 

Northern Mounted Maneuver Training 

Area Alternative: This alternative 

includes approximately 4,724 acres and 

is located adjacent to and east of the 

current Northern Maneuver Training 

Area and west of and near Fort 

Benning’s Digital Multi-Purpose Range 

Complex (DMPRC). 

Of the Action Alternatives, 

Alternative 1 would provide the most 

preferable size and configuration to 

enable high-quality heavy off-road 

mounted maneuver training. 

Accordingly, the Army identified 

Alternative 1 as the Preferred 

Alternative to implement the Proposed 

Action in the Draft and Final EIS. 

Alternative 2: Red Diamond 

Alternative: This alternative includes 

approximately 3,744 acres and is 

located south of the Southern Maneuver 

Training Area (SMTA) near the 

Installation’s southern boundary. 

Alternative 3: Eastern Boundary 

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approximately 2,405 acres and is 

located between the northern dudded 

impact area and the Installation’s 

eastern boundary. 

The Army also analyzed the No 

Action Alternative in detail. While the 

No Action Alternative would not satisfy 

the purpose of or need for the Proposed 

Action, it was retained to provide a 

comparative baseline against which to 

analyze the effects of the Action 

Alternatives as required under the 

Council on Environmental Quality’s 

NEPA Regulations. 

During formal consultation with the 

US Fish and Wildlife Service, the Army 

determined that potential moderate 

adverse impacts on the federally listed 

red-cockaded woodpecker (RCW) would 

occur primarily from removal of clusters 

and habitat during HOMMTA 

construction, resulting in up to 11 

‘‘incidental takes.’’ The HOMMTA 

Biological Opinion, however, reached 

the conclusion that the Army can 

reduce those potential adverse impacts 

through mitigation, and implementation 

of the HOMMTA with Alternative 1 

would not jeopardize recovery of the 

RCW. 

Potential impacts to Unique 

Ecological Areas, a subcomponent of 

biological resources, may be significant 

if they cannot be fully avoided with 

implementation of Alternative 1. No 

other resource is anticipated to 

experience significant adverse impacts. 

Based on the analysis presented in the 

Final EIS, the No Action Alternative is 

the Environmentally Preferred 

Alternative. Of the Action Alternatives, 

Alternative 2 is the Environmentally 

Preferred Alternative. Considering 

potential environmental and 

socioeconomic impacts, national 

defense needs, Fort Benning’s mission 

requirements, and the purpose of and 

need for the Proposed Action, however, 

the Army has selected Alternative 1 (i.e., 

the Army’s Preferred Alternative) to 

implement the Proposed Action. The 

Army determined that Alternative 1 

strikes a proper balance between 

providing environmental protection and 

achieving the Army’s training 

requirements. 

The Army received several comments 

during the Final EIS waiting period. The 

Army took these comments into account 

in making its decision; however, the 

comments do not present information 

that constitutes significant new 

circumstances or information relevant to 

environmental concerns that would 

require supplementation of the EIS. 

The ROD formally adopts numerous 

mitigation measures that the Army will 

implement to reduce potential adverse 

environmental impacts under 

Alternative 1. All practicable means to 

avoid or minimize environmental harm 

from the Selected Alternative have been 

adopted. Mitigation measures that the 

Army considered but does not adopt at 

this time are listed in the Draft 

Mitigation and Monitoring Plan in the 

Final EIS with explanations of why 

those mitigation measures were 

considered not practical or necessary. 

An electronic copy of the ROD is 

posted on the HOMMTA EIS web page 

at https://www.benning.army.mil/ 

Garrison/DPW/EMD/HOMMTA. 

Additionally, interested parties may 

contact Mr. John Brown (see FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) to 

request a printed copy. 

Publication of the ROD formally 

concludes the NEPA planning process 

for this Proposed Action, 

acknowledging that the Army will 

implement the adopted mitigation 

measures as identified in the ROD. The 

Army will implement Alternative 1, 

including all mitigation measures 

identified in the ROD, as described in 

the Final EIS. 

James W. Satterwhite, Jr., 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

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[Docket ID: DoD–2021–OS–0035] 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

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Defense for Intelligence, Department of 

Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: 30-Day information collection 

notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Defense 

has submitted to OMB for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

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2021. 

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