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The existing building at this site was

not tested for radon; however, this will

be done before operations begin at the

Center. If there is to be a significant

amount of construction done on the

building, asbestos removal, in

accordance with all local, state and

federal health and safety laws and

regulations, may be necessary from

suspect items such as the insulation

around pipe fittings and from the

gymnasium ceiling. Because it is

common for structures built before 1980

to contain lead-based paint, the paint in

the building will be tested and removed,

if necessary. Procedures for the

containment and removal of lead, if

deemed necessary, will be prepared by

a qualified lead-abatement contractor

and will be appropriately managed

during any future construction

activities.

There are no regulations governing

noise in Memphis. Short-term impacts

from noise will occur during the

construction activities; however,

construction activities will be limited to

the hours of 7:00 am to 4:00 pm and the

use of sound control devices and

muffled exhaust on all noise-generating

equipment will be required in order to

minimize any potential adverse impact

upon neighboring properties. Water will

be used to control fugitive dust or

emissions. This will mitigate

construction-related air pollution

concerns.

The existing site and security lighting

consists of facility-owned and

maintained, building-mounted,

photocell-controlled, high-intensity

discharge (HID) luminaries and utility

company-owned and maintained polemounted photocell-controlled HID

luminaries located along the streets and

parking areas. This outdoor lighting

system serves as good surveillance and

has no impact on the environment or

surrounding properties. The lighting

inside the existing building will have to

be completely replaced to accommodate

new building use. This system will not

adversely impact the environment.

Memphis has an abundance of water,

electrical power, and natural gas to

easily serve facilities of this size without

impacting upon these existing services.

Based on the nature of the proposed

construction activities at the site, storm

water quality will not be degraded and

will not have an adverse effect on the

environment surrounding the site.

Although the proposed project will

cause a small increase in traffic to the

community, the increase in traffic value

will only mildly add to the traffic flow

on neighborhood streets in the vicinity

of the new center. Several emergency

response companies service the area.

Police and fire stations are closely

located near the subject property. A

major hospital is within a 5-mile radius

of the subject site. Several bus routes

offer readily available transportation to

and through the subject area at a

reasonable cost. Highways 55 and 240

are within a 7-mile radius from the site

and allow fast and easy access

throughout the Memphis area. These

emergency and community services

appear abundant in the Memphis area,

therefore, the siting of the Job Corps

center in this area will not adversely

impact the use of the above-mentioned

community services. The

implementation of the Job Corps Center

on the proposed site will provide jobs

for vicinity residents and Community

leaders were given an opportunity to

comment on the project and ask

questions. There were no adverse

comments directed to Job Corps

regarding the proposed relocation of the

Job Corps Center to Nampa. Subsequent

to the meeting, there were no adverse

comments received by the city council

or the Office of Job Corps from the

public.

The alternatives considered in the

preparation of the EA were: (1) The

‘‘Proposed Action’’ (Preferred

Alternative); (2) the ‘‘No Action

Alternative’’ (continuing to operate the

CCC at its existing site until it would be

necessary to locate elsewhere or close

the Center); and (3) the ‘‘Alternative

Sites’’ alternative. All three alternatives

have been considered, as reflected in the

environmental assessment, in

compliance with the National

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

Although choosing the ‘‘No Action’’

alternative would result in no

environmental impact upon the area, it

would deny the young adults of this

area the benefits of a Job Corps Center.

Several alternative sites were

considered by the Department of Labor

for the new CCC site, but were found to

be undesirable in terms of safety of

students, compatibility with

surrounding land uses, and/or

proximity to job locations, goods and

services. The potential for an excellent

facility and operational efficiency

afforded by the proposed action

indicates that the proposed relocation of

the Center to the city of Nampa is the

preferred alternative.

Based on the information gathered

during the preparation of the EA for the

Department of Labor, Employment and

Training Administration, the Office of

Job Corps finds that the relocation of the

Marsing CCC to the land adjoining the

ISSH in Nampa, Idaho, will not cause

any significant adverse impact on the

environment and recommends that the

project continue as proposed. This

proposed action is not considered to be

highly controversial.

Dated at Washington, DC, this 23rd day of

December, 1994.

Peter E. Rell,

Director of Job Corps.

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Job Corps: Preliminary Finding of No

Significant Impact (FONSI) for the New

Job Corps Center on Treasure Island,

in San Francisco Bay, CA

AGENCY: Employment and Training

Administration.

ACTION: Preliminary Finding of No

Significant Impact (FONSI) for the new

Job Corps Center on Treasure Island, in

San Francisco Bay, California.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Council on

Environmental Quality Regulations (40

CFR Part 1500–08) implementing

procedural provisions of the National

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the

Department of Labor, Employment and

Training Administration, Office of Job

Corps, in accordance with 29 CFR

11.11(d), gives notice that an

Environmental Assessment (EA) has

been prepared and the proposed plans

for the establishment of a Job Corps

Center on Treasure island in San

Francisco Bay, California, will have no

significant environmental impact.

Pursuant to 29 CFR 11.11(d)(1), this

Preliminary Finding of No Significant

Impact will be made available for public

review and comment for thirty (30)

days.

DATES: Comments must be submitted by

February 10, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Any comment(s) are to be

submitted to Lynn Kotecki, Employment

and Training Administration,

Department of Labor, 200 Constitution

Ave., NW., Washington, DC, 20210,

(202) 219–5468.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Copies of the EA and additional

information are available to interested

parties by contacting Marta AguilarDugan, Region IX (Nine), Office of Job

Corps, 71 Stevenson Street, Suite 1015,

San Francisco, California, 94119, (415)

744–6658.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

purpose of the proposed action is to

create a new Job Corps Center in the San

Francisco Bay Area that would provide

up to 850 enrollees with training and

support services in a residential

environment. The Job Corps training

and services include basic education,

vocational skills training, work
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experience, counseling, health care, and

related support services. The program is

intended to prepare participants to

obtain and hold gainful employment,

pursue further education or training, or

satisfy entrance requirements for service

in the Armed Forces.

The Proposed Job Corps Center will

be developed on land and in buildings

now occupied by the United States

Navy. The Job Corps would occupy

about 35.5 acres of the 403-acre

Treasure island. Treasure Island is

located adjacent to Yerba Buena Island

and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay

Bridge in San Francisco Bay. Naval

Station Treasure Island will be closed

by the Department of Defense on

September 30, 1997. The Job Corps

Center has been proposed as one of the

first non-military uses of the base, and

is planned for implementation before

the base closure is fully complete.

The Job Corps Center would be

planned for an optimum capacity of 720

single residents and 130 non-resident

students. It is estimated that many of the

non-residents would be single parents

with up to 60 children that would use

child care services available to the Job

Corps on Treasure island. Therefore, a

total of 910 people would be served at

the Center.

The Job Corps would take possession

of a total of 470,347 gross square feet of

floor space in twelve existing buildings.

The streets, sidewalks, parking lots, and

utility systems serving the buildings are

in place and mature landscaping is

found around many of the structures.

Job Corps’ estimates of the

rehabilitation work that would be

necessary to adapt these buildings to

meet the needs of their programs

indicates that 3 of the buildings would

need no rehabilitation work, 2 would

require major renovation and the

remaining 7 would require minor to

moderate modifications. The buildings

that would require no work include the

following: Building 363, which houses

an existing Job Corps sponsored

Culinary Arts school (with about 120

students); Building 368, the cafeteria;

and Building 364, which would be

reserved for future upgrading by Job

Corps’ vocational training students.

Minor rehabilitation, such as upgrading

of fire doors, HVAC, electrical and

plumbing systems and interior space

conversions to meet Job Corps needs,

would be undertaken in Buildings 369,

450, 487, 488, and 489. Building 365

would require moderate rehabilitation

work to reconfigure the existing space

into storage. Loading docks and a freight

elevator would be added. An area on the

second floor of Building 442, the 3-year

old medical/dental building would be

reconfigured to provide medical wards.

The buildings slated for major

rehabilitation are Buildings 366 and

367. Building 366 would be

reconfigured from open bay dormitories

to vocational shops. The bathrooms

would have to be converted to male/

female facilities and an interior elevator

would be added. Building 367 would be

reconfigured from an open bay

dormitory to classroom space. The

bathrooms would also have to be

reconfigured and an elevator installed.

The only new building anticipated at

this time would be a building to house

recreational facilities for the students on

the ‘‘campus’’. The size and

configuration of the building has not

been defined, although it is expected

that it would be located on what is now

a 1.5-acre grassy playing field/

landscaped area near Buildings 369, 488

and 489, which would be dormitories.

Treasure Island, the site of the

proposed project, is a manmade island

of about 403 acres. It was built on Yerba

Buena Shoals and a sand spit extending

north from Yerba Buena Island between

1936 and 1939 as the site for the Golden

Gate International Exposition. The

island was constructed from sediments

dredged from San Francisco Bay. The

Exposition or ‘‘World’s Fair’’ opened on

the island in February 1939 and had a

second run in 1940.

A few months after the Fair closed,

the Navy leased Treasure Island from

San Francisco and the Yerba Buenabased Naval activities spread out to

cover both islands. The island became a

major naval facility during World War

II, and has operated as a Naval Base

continuously since. After the war, the

City of San Francisco agreed to trade the

deed to Treasure Island in exchange for

Government owned land south of San

Francisco where the San Francisco

International Airport was eventually

built.

Exiting buildings on Treasure Island,

today, includes three Naval training

center facilities, 907 family-housing

units, 1,000 bachelor quarters, medical/

dental clinics, a brig, 5 active piers,

recreational facilities, a school and a

child-care center, a commissary, a

sewage treatment plant, fire station,

Naval Public Works department and a

variety of other facilities. The Treasure

Island Museum is located in the

Headquarters building, which is one of

only three remaining structures built for

the 1939 Exposition.

Treasure Island is considered an

urban setting and is located within the

boundaries of the City and County of

San Francisco. As a federal/military

enclave within the City, the Island has

not been subject to local planning and

zoning regulations; San Francisco is

currently beginning work on a reuse

plan for conversion of the Island from

military to civilian use.

The project will help offset the

substantial population and employment

loses that are occurring in the Bay Area

from the Navy’s base closure actions

affecting Treasure Island and other

nearby facilities. The Job Corps will

replace more than 10% of the Navy’s

current Treasure Island population,

which will decline to zero by late 1997.

The Job Corps Center will also

provide employment opportunities for

teachers and support staff, and will

purchase goods and services from the

surrounding communities. This will

offset a small proportion of the

economic losses to the region from the

base closure actions. The ability of the

Job Corps to begin functioning on the

site before the Navy leaves Treasure

Island in 1997 is considered a benefit,

as it will help smooth the transition

from military to civilian employment on

the site.

The San Francisco Bay Area is

considered one of the most earthquakeprone areas of the United States.

Treasure Island lies approximately 11

miles east of the San Andreas Fault and

10 miles west of the Hayward Fault,

both major faults. It is estimated that

there is a 90 percent probability that one

or more large earthquakes (magnitude 7

or greater) will occur in the San

Francisco Bay region during the 30-year

period between 1990 and 2020.

Since there are no active or buried

faults located beneath Treasure Island,

the risk of ground rupture due to fault

displacement is very low. However, the

island is potentially subject to violent to

extremely violent ground shaking and

there is a high potential for liquefaction

in the event of major earthquake.

Previous Navy studies of buildings on

Treasure Island have determined that

only Building 2 and 3 are likely to

sustain more than 25 percent damage

should a significant earthquake event

occur. The Job Corps would have no

activities in Buildings 1 or 2. However,

the Job Corps will consider seismic

forces and risks to buildings occupants

when retrofiting the existing Navy

buildings to meet Job Corps

requirements.

The potential for major seismic

activity around the Pacific Rim places

Treasure Island at risk to damage from

Tsunamis. Tsunamis having a wave

height or runup of 8 feed at Treasure

Island can be expected to occur once

every 200 years. The possibility of a

Tsunamis is considered to be a low risk,

particularly since the Job Corps Center
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would be protected behind the Island’s

perimeter dike, the top of which is more

than 8 feet above sea level. The

emergency preparedness and response

plan for this facility will consider

warning and response protocols for this

risk.

The proposed Job Corps Center will

not have any significant impacts on

natural systems or resources.

Implementation of the existing

Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan

for Treasure Island will reduce the risks

of stormwater pollution of San

Francisco Bay as a result of activities on

the Island. The project will not

introduce any significant new sources of

potential pollution to the Island.

Treasure Island, including the area

where the Job Corps activities would be

centered is not considered a valuable,

unique or sensitive natural area. The Job

Corps would utilize existing buildings

and urban spaces for the same, or

similar uses that have been continuing

for decades. The Project is not expected

to have any adverse effects on

vegetation and wildlife including rare,

threatened or endangered species of

plants or animals.

It is not expected that the Job Corps

programs will introduce any new

stationary sources of air pollutant

emissions; however, if any future

vocational training programs involve the

use of equipment requiring permits to

operate from the BAAQMD, such

permits will be sought and the

conditions met. The majority of the Job

Corps students at Treasure Island will

be residential students and will

contribute proportionately fewer vehicle

miles, hence fewer air pollutants, than

most residents of the Bay Area. No

adverse impacts on air quality are

projected.

No long-term adverse noise impacts

are expected. The Job Corps site is

outside the traffic noise impact zone of

the Bay Bridge, and no significant

impacts from local traffic noise is

expected. The site may currently be

within the 60 dBA CNEL zone of flights

from Alameda Naval Air Station.

However, since Alameda Naval Air

Station is being closed concurrently

with Treasure Island, this potential

impact will be temporary and no special

mitigation is deemed necessary.

Construction work necessary for the

modification and upgrading of some of

the existing buildings would result in

short-term noise impacts, although most

noisy work would occur inside the

building shells. Air compressors, trucks,

lifts, concrete pumpers, and other

equipment would be operated around

the buildings undergoing remodeling

and could result in short-term noise

impacts at surrounding locations. To

mitigate these potential impacts,

construction activities will be limited to

the hours of 7AM to 6PM, and sound

control devices and muffled exhausts

will be required on noise-generating

equipment.

The existing streetlighting and

security lighting systems are expected to

remain in place. The addition of the Job

Corps Center to Treasure Island will not

affect existing views of nighttime lights

on Treasure Island from off-site

locations. No impacts are expected.

Treasure Island contains no

archeological or prehistoric resources as

it was constructed with materials

dredged form the bottom of San

Francisco Bay.

The only buildings on the Island

found to have historical importance are

Buildings 1, 2 and 3. None of these

buildings are within the area that would

be used by the Job Corps. It is concluded

that the project would not have any

impacts on historic or archeological

resources.

No electricity, natural gas, telephone

or cable telephone services would have

to be extended nor would the capacity

of any supply lines have to be increased

to serve the project.

The Jobs Corps will be dependent

upon the central steam heating system

on Treasure Island for space heating. It

is now known who will be responsible

for this utility service after the Navy

leaves. The Job Corps will work with the

Navy and City of San Francisco during

the Base Closure and Realignment

process to ensure that this utility service

will remain operational or that a

substitute is implemented prior to base

closure.

Water supply for domestic use and

firefighting is adequate to meet the

project’s needs.

The existing sewage treatment plant

has ample capacity to adequately treat

and dispose of the sewage generated by

the proposed project. Because some of

the buildings will be changed from

residential to instructional facilities, the

Job Corps will generate less sewage from

the same complex of buildings than the

Navy has in the past.

Solid waste disposal will continue to

be provided by private contractors.

The project’s impact upon daily peak

hour traffic on the Bay Bridge by Job

Corps personnel will be an addition of

fewer than 150 round trips, which is

less than 20 percent of the traffic

generated by the Naval Station in recent

years. This traffic will have little or no

effect on the Bay Bridge traffic, and is

not considered a significant impact.

Job Corps personnel will experience

difficulty merging onto the Bay Bridge

during peak traffic periods, just as Navy

personnel do today and have in the past.

It is not known if San Francisco’s reuse

plan for Treasure Island will consider

improvements to these sub-standard

access ramps. Nor is it known if such

improvements are physically feasible at

a reasonable cost. The Job Corps will

work with the City of San Francisco

during the reuse planning process to

ensure that access improvements for

Treasure Island are carefully considered

and evaluated.

Medical services will be available to

Job Corps personnel from the medical/

dental clinic which the Job Corps will

acquire from the Navy.

Treasure Island is within the

jurisdiction of the San Francisco Police

Department. Police services will be

provided by the City and County of San

Francisco with support from military

police as long as the Navy remains on

the base. Subsequently, the San

Francisco Police Department will be

responsible for all calls for service from

the Island. The proposed Job Corps

Center’s potential need for police

services is not expected to have a

significant impact on the City and

County of San Francisco.

Fire services will be provided by the

Navy until base closure. At that time the

operation of the Fire Station will be the

responsibility of the City and County of

San Francisco. San Francisco is also

expected to address the fire services in

the Reuse Plan.

Preliminary screening has indicated

that radon gas is not a significant

concern at Treasure Island. No impacts

are expected.

Asbestos may have been used in the

building materials for seven or eight of

the twelve structures to be acquired by

the Job Corps. The Job Corps will survey

the buildings for asbestos-containing

materials and abate them as necessary in

conjunction with the other

rehabilitation efforts required to adapt

the buildings to Job Corps uses. Any

asbestos-containing materials removed

from the buildings will be disposed of

at licensed, off-site facilities in

accordance with Federal and State

regulations. Completion of the

abatement program will eliminate any

potential health hazards from asbestos.

Compliance with the Federal

Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard

Reduction Act of 1992 by the Navy and/

or the Department of Labor is expected

to adequately address any potential

lead-based paint hazards at the facility.

Water supplied to Treasure Island is

well within the Federal drinking water

quality standards for lead. No adverse

impacts upon the water supply are

expected.
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There are twenty Installation

Restoration sites on Treasure Island

containing hazardous wastes cataloged

by the Navy. None of these are located

within the confines of the area that

would be transferred to the Department

of Labor for the proposed Job Corps

facility. Two of the seventy-five

Underground Storage Tanks (USTs) on

the base are within the boundaries of

the Job Corps site. These underground

storage tanks have been removed. One

of the sites requires further remediation

work, consisting of the removal and

treatment of soil with petroleum

hydrocarbon contamination and,

possibly, the treatment of contaminated

groundwater. Groundwater beneath

Treasure Island is not withdrawn for

any domestic or irrigation use.

Remediation of this UST site will be

completed by the Navy before base

closure is complete. The Navy intends

to conduct all remediation work with

proper site safety protocols; no adverse

impacts are projected.

PCB-containing transformers have

been removed from Treasure Island.

One of the identified Installation

Restoration sites, which will be cleaned,

has PCB contamination. This site,

however, is far from the buildings that

will be utilized by the Job Corps. No

impacts from PCB contamination are

projected.

Naval Station Treasure Island is a

regulated hazardous waste generator.

The sources of hazardous wastes

generated on the Island are primarily in

the military training and industrial

activities on the site, which are

concentrated on the eastern and

southern sides of the Island. Activities

resulting in the generation of hazardous

waste do not occur in the residential

and administrative buildings that would

be used by the Job Corps. The medical/

dental building generates small

quantities of medical wastes, which are

disposed of in accordance with

appropriate regulations. It is presumed

that these practices will be continued by

the Department of Labor, as required by

law, upon transfer of the medical

building. No adverse impacts to Job

Corps personnel is expected as a result

of on-site chemical use.

On February 3, 1994 the San

Francisco Board of Supervisors Select

Committee on Base Closure conducted a

Public Hearing on the proposed location

of a Job Corps Center at Treasure Island.

The Public Hearing was attended by

approximately 37 people, of which 18

offered comments and testimony. Every

piece of testimony offered was in

support of the project; no testimony was

submitted, in person or in writing, that

questioned or opposed a Job Corps

Center at Treasure Island.

The Alternatives considered in the

preparation of the EA were: (1) The ‘‘No

Build’’ Alternative, (2) the ‘‘Alternative

Sites’’ Alternative, and (3) the

‘‘Continued as Proposed’’ alternative.

The ‘‘No Build’’ Alternative would

mean that the Department of Labor

would not proceed with plans for

development of the proposed Job Corps

Center on Treasure Island, and a unique

opportunity for the youth of the area to

educationally benefit from a Job Corps

would be forgone. Although choosing

the ‘‘No Build’’ would result in no

environmental impact upon the area,

the opportunity to obtain land and

buildings that can be adapted to meet

Job Corps need would also be lost. The

benefits to the City of San Francisco and

to the region from the location of an

expanded Job Corps presence on

Treasure Island would also be foregone.

The Job Corps has investigated

alternative locations in the Bay Area for

the proposed center. However, the

alternative sites were rejected in favor of

Treasure Island because none of these

sites have the potential to be adapted to

Job Corps functions as quickly or as cost

effectively as the Treasure Island site. In

addition, two of the sites were within or

adjacent to residential areas and the

proposed Presidio, much of which will

be redeveloped as a Park. The other site

was considered significantly

constrained due to soil contamination.

The San Francisco Board of

Supervisors Select Committee on Base

closure conducted a Public Hearing on

February 3, 1994, regarding the

proposed location of a Job Corps Center

at Treasure Island. The Public Hearing

was attended by approximately 37

people. The results of the hearing

confirmed that there was unanimous

support from all participants at the

hearing for a Job Corps Center at

Treasure Island.

Based on the information gathered

during the preparation of the EA for the

Department of Labor, Employment and

Training Administration, the Office of

Job Corps finds that the development of

the Treasure Island Job Corps Center

will not cause any significant impact on

the environment and, therefore,

recommends that the project continue as

proposed. This proposed action is not

considered to be highly controversial.

Dated at Washington, DC, this 23rd day of

December 1994.

Peter E. Rell,

Director of Job Corps.

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