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provides a framework for future 

environmental analyses as activities 

evolve and mature. 

DATES: A Record of Decision will be 

issued no earlier than 30 days from the 

date of this notice. 

Copies of the Final PEIS have been 

distributed to Federal, State, local 

agencies, and public officials that 

previously requested copies of the PEIS. 

Copies of the Final PEIS will be 

available at the following public 

libraries: 

• Anchorage Municipal Library, 3600 

Denali Street, Anchorage, AK 99503. 

• Mountain View Branch Library, 150 

S. Street, Anchorage, AK 99508. 

• California State Library, Library and 

Courts Building, 914 Capitol Mall, 

Sacramento, CA 95814. 

• Sacramento Public Library, 828 I 

Street, Sacramento, CA 95814. 

• Hawaii State Library, Hawaii 

Documents Center, 478 South King 

Street, Honolulu, HI 96813. 

• University of Hawaii at Manoa, 

Hamilton Library, 2550 The Mall, 

Honolulu, HI 96822. 

• Arlington County Public Library, 

Central Branch, 1015 North Quincy 

Street, Arlington, VA 22201. 

• District of Columbia Public Library, 

Central Branch—Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Memorial Library, 901 G Street NW., 

Washington, DC 20001. 

Requests for electronic copies of the 

Final BMDS PEIS should be directed to 

MDA BMDS PEIS, c/o ICF International, 

9300 Lee Highway, Fairfax, VA 22031; 

Phone (Toll-Free) 1–877–MDA–PEIS (1–

877–632–7347); Fax (Toll-Free) 1–877–

851–5451; E-mail 

mda.bmds.peis@icfconsulting.com; or 

Web site. An electronic version of the 

Final PEIS is available on the MDA Web 

site at http://www.mda.mil/mdalink/ 

html/enviro.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Please call Mr. Rick Lehner, MDA 

Director of Public Affairs, at (703) 697–

8997. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: MDA has 

a requirement to develop, test, deploy, 

and prepare for decommissioning the 

BMDS to protect the United States, its 

deployed forces, friends, and allies from 

ballistic missile threats. The proposed 

action would provide an integrated 

BMDS using existing infrastructure and 

capabilities, when feasible, as well as 

emerging and new technologies, to meet 

current and evolving threats in support 

of the MDA’s mission. Conceptually, the 

BMDS would be a layered system of 

weapons; sensors; Command and 

Control, Battle Management, and 

Communications (C2BMC); and support 

assets, each with specific functional 

capabilities, working together to defend 

against all classes and ranges of threat 

ballistic missiles in all phases of flight. 

Multiple defensive weapons would be 

used to create a layered defense 

comprised of multiple intercept 

opportunities along the incoming threat 

missile’s trajectory. This would provide 

a layered defensive system of 

capabilities designed to back up one 

another. 

On April 11, 2003, MDA initiated the 

public scoping process by publishing 

the Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare the 

PEIS for the BMDS in the Federal 

Register. MDA held public scoping 

meetings in Arlington, Virginia; 

Sacramento, California; Anchorage, 

Alaska; and Honolulu, Hawaii. The 

Notice of Availability (NOA) of the 

MDA Ballistic Missile Defense System 

Draft PEIS was published in the Federal 

Register on September 17, 2004. This 

initiated a public review and comment 

period for the Draft PEIS. MDA held 

public hearings in Arlington, Virginia; 

Sacramento, California; Anchorage, 

Alaska; and Honolulu, Hawaii. MDA 

received approximately 8,500 comments 

on the Draft PEIS; MDA considered all 

of these comments in preparing the 

Final PEIS. Responses to all of the inscope comments can be found in 

Appendix K of the PEIS. Three recurring 

issues of public concern-orbital debris, 

perchlorate, and radar impacts to 

wildlife-were addressed in more 

technical detail in Appendices L, M, 

and N of the PEIS. 

Alternatives Analysis 

The MDA considers two alternatives 

to implementing an integrated BMDS 

that address the use of weapons 

components from land-, sea-, air-, and 

space-based platforms in addition to the 

No Action alternative as required by the 

National Environmental Policy Act. 

• Alternative 1. Under Alternative 1, 

the MDA would develop, test, deploy, 

and plan to decommission land-, sea-, 

and air-based platforms for BMDS 

weapons components and related 

architecture and assets. Alternative 1 

would include space-based sensors, but 

would not include space-based 

defensive weapons. 

• Alternative 2. Under Alternative 2, 

the MDA would develop, test, deploy, 

and plan to decommission land-, sea-, 

air-, and space-based platforms for 

BMDS weapons components and related 

architecture and assets. Alternative 2 

would be identical to Alternative 1, 

with the addition of space-based 

defensive weapons. 

• No Action Alternative. Under the 

No Action Alternative, the MDA would 

not develop, test, deploy, or plan for 

decommissioning activities for an 

integrated BMDS. Instead, the MDA 

would continue existing development 

and testing of discrete systems as standalone missile defense capabilities. 

Individual systems would continue to 

be tested but would not be subjected to 

System Integration Tests. 

Dated: February 7, 2007. 

L. M. Bynum, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, DoD. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Strategic Environmental Research and 

Development Program, Scientific 

Advisory Board 

AGENCY: Department of Defense. 

ACTION: Notice of open 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 

March 13–14, 2007 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: March 13, 2007 from 8:30 a.m. to 

4:30 p.m. and March 14 from 8:30 a.m. 

to 11:30 a.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: February 12, 2007. 

C.R. Choate, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

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