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Dated: December 6, 2007. 

L.M. Bynum, 

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Officer, Department of Defense. 

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2006: 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

Notice of Availability of a Record of 

Decision (ROD) for the Implementation 

of the Base Realignment and Closure 

(BRAC) 2005 and Transformation 

Actions at Fort Benning, GA 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD. 

ACTION: Record of Decision. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the Army 

announces the availability of the ROD, 

which summarizes the decision for 

implementing BRAC actions as directed 

by the 2005 Base Closure and 

Realignment Commission and DoD 

Transformation Actions at Fort Benning, 

Georgia. 

ADDRESSES: To obtain a copy of the 

ROD, contact Mr. John Brent, Fort 

Benning Directorate of Public Works, 

Environmental Management Division, 

Bldg #6 (Meloy Hall), Room 310, Fort 

Benning, GA 31905; via e-mail at 

john.brent@benning.army.mil; or via 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

John Brent at (706) 545–2180. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Army 

has decided to proceed with 

implementing the Preferred Alternative 

(Alternative B) of the Proposed Action 

consistent with the analysis in the 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

(dated October 2007) and supporting 

studies and comments provided during 

formal comment and review periods. 

The Proposed Action includes the 

construction activities, personnel 

increases, and training activities 

associated with the BRAC Commission 

recommendations, the Global Defense 

Posture Realignment (GDPR) overseas 

restationing actions, Army Modular 

Force (AMF) initiatives, and other 

discretionary stationing activities at Fort 

Benning. As a result of the proposed 

action, Fort Benning will be receiving 

personnel, equipment, and missions 

from various realignment and closure 

actions. To implement the BRAC 

Commission recommended initiatives, 

the Army will provide the necessary 

facilities, infrastructure, training ranges 

and maneuver areas to support the 

changes. Permanent facilities will be 

constructed to house the Armor Center 

and School as well as several other 

minor unit relocations. Construction 

activities include administrative, 

supply/storage, maintenance, barracks, 

commercial services, community 

facilities, medical and dental, and 

recreation facilities focused on the 

cantonment areas. A combination of 

redevelopment (e.g., renovation), 

development, and expansion would 

occur at the four major cantonment 

areas: Main Post, Kelley Hill, Sand Hill, 

and Harmony Church. Activities to 

occur in the ranges and maneuver areas 

include construction of small- and largecaliber weapons ranges, heavy 

maneuver areas and corridors, a drivers’

training course, off-road driver’s 

training area, and vehicle recovery area 

to support the training range 

requirements. The largest-scale 

transformation activity is the BRAC 

action to relocate the Armor Center and 

School from Fort Knox, Kentucky, to 

Fort Benning. Once relocated to Fort 

Benning, the Armor Center and School 

would be combined with the existing 

Infantry Center and School to create a 

Maneuver Center of Excellence for 

ground forces training and doctrine 

development. Fort Benning also 

proposes to implement other 

transformation actions as the Army 

undergoes restructuring to meet the 

demands of the 21st century. The AMF 

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initiative involves the Army’s transition 

from a division-centric design to a 

standard brigade organization. The 

reshaping of the military force structure 

also includes provision for the return of 

units currently based overseas to United 

States installations as part of the GDPR. 

Finally, discretionary stationing actions 

(activations, inactivations, realignments, 

and relocations) are proposed, which 

contribute to and are interrelated with 

the transformation process. All BRAC 

and other transformation actions will 

collectively result in an increase of 

approximately 16,600 military, civilian, 

student and contractor personnel. 

Alternative A would also meet the Army 

transformation purpose and need, but it 

is not the preferred option due to the 

magnitude of impacts on the Redcockaded woodpecker (RCW) (Picoides 

borealis), federally-listed endangered 

species. The No Action Alternative 

would not meet the Army’s purpose and 

need for the BRAC 2005 and 

transformation actions. 

Special consideration was given to the 

effects of Alternative A and Alternative 

B (the Preferred Alternative) of the 

Proposed Action on the natural and 

human environment. Mitigation 

measures have been adopted to avoid or 

minimize environmental harm from the 

selected alternative. Mitigation 

measures, as described in the ROD, will 

be implemented to minimize, avoid, or 

compensate for the significant adverse 

effects identified in the EIS at Fort 

Benning for transportation, noise, water 

resources, geology and soils, biological 

resources, cultural resources, and safety. 

In addition, the Army evaluated 

national defense needs, the synergistic 

relationship between BRAC, AMF, 

GDPR, and stationing actions, as well as 

meeting the purpose and need for the 

BRAC 2005 recommendations to 

include the creation of the Maneuver 

Center of Excellence. 

The ROD states that implementing the 

Preferred Alternative reflects a proper 

balance between initiatives for 

protection of the environment, 

appropriate mitigation, and actions to 

achieve the Army’s requirements. There 

are no differences in impacts to 

resources such as aesthetics and visual, 

socioeconomics, transportation, 

utilities, noise, hazardous and toxic 

materials and waste, utilities, and safety 

between Alternatives A and B. 

Alternative A does impact fewer acres, 

thus disturbing a lesser area of soils 

(and indirectly producing less fugitive 

dust that impacts air quality). Biological 

resources such as vegetation, wildlife, 

aquatic habitats, and unique ecological 

areas would also be impacted to a lesser 

degree, and fewer cultural resources 

would be affected. Nevertheless, under 

Alternative A there would be a greater 

number of RCWs impacted if it were 

implemented. In the Biological Opinion, 

the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

concurred that the preferred alternative 

is not likely to jeopardize the continued 

existence of the RCW and relict trillium. 

Moreover, the Preferred Alternative 

does not introduce any greater impacts 

to other resources that cannot be 

mitigated when compared to Alternative 

A. 

Dated: December 3, 2007. 

Addison D. Davis, IV, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army 

(Environment, Safety and Occupational 

Health). 

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