30228 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 116 / Friday, June 14, 1996 / Notices

Strategic Environmental Research and

Development Program (SERDP),

Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)

ACTION: Notice.

In accordance with Title 10(a)(2) of

the Federal Advisory Committee Act

(P.L. 92–463), announcement is made of

the following Committee meeting:

Date of Meeting: July 9, 1996 from 0800 to

approximately 1735, July 10, 1996 from 0800

to approximately 1730, and July 11, 1996

from 0800 to approximately 1240.

Place: Federal Highway Administration

Conference Room, 901 N. Stuart Street, Ste.

304, Arlington, VA.

Matters to be Considered: Research and

Development Proposals and continuing

projects requesting Strategic Environmental

Research and Development Programs funds

in excess of $1M will be reviewed.

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.

For Further Information Contact: Ms.

Kimberly Kay, Labat-Anderson

Incorporated, 8000 Westpark Drive,

McLean, Virginia 22102 or telephone

703–506–1400, extension 552.

Dated: June 7, 1996.

L.M. Bynum,

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison

Officer, Department of Defense.

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Department of the Army

Environmental Assessment and

Finding of No Significant Impact for

the Realignment of Towed and SelfPropelled Combat Vehicle Mission

From Letterkenny Army Depot,

Pennsylvania; the Associated Combat

Vehicle Material and Management

Functions From the Defense

Distribution Depot Letterkenny,

Pennsylvania (DDLP); and the 142nd

Explosive Ordnance Detachment From

McClellan, Alabama to Anniston Army

Depot (ANAD), Alabama

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DOD.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

SUMMARY: In accordance with Public

Law 101–510 (as amended), the Defense

Base Closure and Realignment Act of

1990, the Defense Base Closure and

Realignment Commission recommended

the realignment of the towed and selfpropelled combat vehicle mission from

Letterkenny Army Depot (LEAD),

Pennsylvania, to Anniston Army Depot

(ANAD), Alabama, and the combat

vehicle material and management

functions from the Defense Distribution

Depot Letterkenny (DDLP)

Pennsylvania, to Defense Distribution

Depot Anniston, Alabama (DDAA). The

Army also proposes to relocate the

142nd Explosive Ordnance Detachment

(EOD) from Fort McClellan, Alabama, to

ANAD, pursuant to another of the

Commission’s recommendations.

The Environmental Assessment (EA)

evaluates the environmental impacts

associated with the transfer of 154

civilian positions from DDLP to DDAA

and 17 military positions from Fort

McClellan to ANAD. The reallocation of

the combat vehicle mission to ANAD

involves only the transfer of workload.

No additional jobs will transfer because

there are adequate personnel at ANAD

available to perform the additional

workload. It also involves the

construction of a new transmission

dynamometer facility, a new machining

facility, a new operations facility for

EOD personnel use, expansion of the

recoil repair room, renovation of the

recoil honing facility, and upgrade of

the firing range. Three parcels of land

totaling 137 acres within the Nichols

Industrial Complex would be used for

storage of combat vehicles before and

after maintenance work.

The EA, which is incorporated into

the Finding of No Significant Impact,

examines potential impacts of the

proposed action and alternatives on 13

resource areas and areas of

environmental concern: land use, air

quality, noise, water resources, geology,

infrastructure, training areas, hazardous

and toxic materials, biological resources

and ecosystems, cultural resources, the

sociological environment, economic

development, and quality of life.

Based on the analysis found in the

EA, which is hereby incorporated in this

Finding of No Significant Impact, it has

been determined that the

implementation of these realignments at

ANAD would have no significant or

cumulatively significant impacts on the

quality of the natural or human

environment. Because no significant

environmental impacts would result

from implementation of the proposed

action, an Environmental Impact

Statement is not required and will not

be prepared.

DATES: Inquiries will be accepted until

July 1, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the

Environmental Assessment and Finding

of No Significant Impact can be

obtained by contacting Dr. Neil Robison

at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,

Mobile District, ATTN: CESAM–PD–E,

P.O. Box 2288, Mobile, Alabama 36628–

0001 or by telephone at (334) 690–3018.

Raymond J. Fatz,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of the

Army (Environmental, Safety and

Occupational Health) OASA (IL&E).

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Intent To Prepare an Environmental

Impact Statement (EIS) for:

Headquarters, U.S. Army Field Artillery

Center and Fort Sill, Fort Sill, OK

AGENCY: U.S. Army, Fort Sill, OK.

ACTION: Notice of intent.

SUMMARY: The purpose of this project is

to identify and evaluate the

environmental impacts associated with

implementation of the Real Property

Master Plan (RPMP) for the U.S. Army

Field Artillery Center and Fort Sill

(USAFACFS).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Written comments may be forwarded to

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, ATTN:

CESWT–PL–R (J. Randolph), P.O. Box

61, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74121–0061.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The most

recent environmental documatation

prepared under the guidelines set forth

by the National Environmental Policy

(NEPA) for Fort Sill activities, including

the Master Plan, was the Fort Sill

Ongoing Mission EIS completed in

September 1978. Since then several

changes in legislation, program

activities, and missions have occurred.

The Fort Sill Master Plan, now referred

to as the Fort Sill Real Property Master

Plan (RPMP), has become increasingly

complex and diverse. Based upon this

complexity and diversity of the RPMP,

the nature of the activities conducted in

the implementation of the RPMP, and

its potential to have significant impacts

on certain natural, economic, social, and

cultural resources of the Fort Sill

community, it has been determined that

an EIS should be prepared for the

RPMP. The study area for

environmental concerns will be the

entire Fort Sill installation. The

objective is to provide a comprehensive

and programmatic EIS which is a

complete, objective appraisal of the

environmental impact of the

installation’s RPMP. The purpose of the

RPMP EIS is to serve as a planning

document for managing activities at the

installation by the commanders,

Installation Planning Board, Master

Planning Office, Directorate of

Environmental Quality, and others; a

source of public information, and as a

reference for mitigation tracking.