Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 53 / Monday, March 20, 1995 / Notices 14737

Department of the Air Force

Notice of Intent To Prepare an

Environmental Impact Statement for

the Airborne Laser Demonstration

Phase

AGENCIES: Department of Defense,

United States Air Force, Air Force

Materiel Command, Space and Missile

Systems Center, Phillips Laboratory,

DOD.

SUMMARY: The United States Air Force

(USAF) will prepare an Environmental

Impact Statement (EIS) to assess the

potential impacts of the Demonstrator

Phase of the Airborne Laser (ABL)

Program. This program is an Air Force

Advanced Technology Demonstration

program to develop and then

demonstrate the necessary technologies

required to acquire, track, and then

destroy theater ballistic missiles during

boost phase. The ABL Demonstrator

Phase includes the design,

development, integration, and testing of

a weapons-class Chemical Oxygen

Iodine Laser (COIL) on the aircraft. The

ABL Demonstrator Phase is scheduled

to begin in January 1997 and be

completed by the end of 2001. The

decision to be made by the Air Force,

is to determine where the ABL

Demonstrator Phase test activities will

occur.

The ABL Program will require a Home

Base, a Diagnostic Test Range and an

Expanded-Area Test Range. The Home

Base will be the location for the ABL

Demonstrator Aircraft, its flightline

maintenance, ground test facilities, fuel

storage and transfer, laser pressure

recovery systems, and technical and

support personnel. The Diagnostic Test

Range is the location for aircraft

worthiness and flight certification

testing, air refueling, modification

testing, communication and navigation

system testing, integrated weapon

system checkouts without laser

operations, short range integrated

aircraft and weapons system checkouts

and engagements with low- and highpower laser operations, short range

launch and recovery operations, and

target and debris recovery. The

Expanded-Area Test Range is the

location for long-range integrated

aircraft and weapon system checkouts

and low- and high-power laser

operations, and target and debris

recovery.

Alternative sites for the Home Base

include Phillips Laboratory at Kirtland

AFB, Albuquerque, NM, and Edwards

AFB near Lancaster, CA. Potential Test

Ranges include: the Western Test Range

adjacent to Vandenberg AFB near

Lompoc, CA; White Sands Missile

Range near Las Cruces, NM; and

Edwards AFB near Lancaster, CA.

The Air Force is planning to conduct

a series of scoping meetings to assist in

determining the issues to be analyzed in

depth in the EIS, and to involve the

public to help the USAF identify those

areas of concern. Comments received as

a result of the scoping process will be

used to assist in identifying potential

impacts to the quality of the human

environment. To provide a forum for the

community to make oral comments,

scoping meetings are scheduled for:

April 4, 1995, 7 p.m. at the Ramada

Classic Hotel, Albuquerque, NM.

April 18, 1995, 7 p.m. at the Holiday

Inn, Las Cruces, NM.

May 3, 1995, 7 p.m. at the Desert Inn,

Lancaster, CA.

May 10, 1995, 7 p.m. at the Best

Western Porto Finale, Lompoc, CA.

The purpose of these meetings is to

identify the environmental issues and

concerns that should be analyzed to (1)

support the ABL, (2) solicit comments

on the proposed action and (3) solicit

potential alternatives for consideration

in developing the ABL EIS. Public

hearings are proposed to be conducted

in 1996 for the purpose of obtaining

comments on the Draft EIS. Dates, times,

and places will be determined and

public notification will be made.

To ensure the USAF will have

sufficient time to consider public

scoping comments on environmental

issues to be included in the Draft EIS,

and alternatives to be included in the

final plan, comments and proposals

should be forwarded to the address

below by May 26, 1995. However,

comments will be accepted and

considered through the process.

Please direct comments or requests for

further information concerning the ABL

EIS to: Michelle Hedrick, Phillips

Laboratory/S,E, 3550 Aberdeen Ave.

S.E., Bldg. 434,Albuquerque, NM

87117–5776, Toll free number: 1–800–

343–1282.

List of Subjects

Environmental protection,

Environmental impact statement, U.S.

Air Force, Phillips Laboratory, Notice of

intent, Airborne laser, Kirtland AFB,

Edwards AFB, White Sands Missile

Range, Vandenberg AFB.

Patsy J. Conner,

Air Force Federal Register Liaison Officer.

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