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SFWMD’s preferred alternative and the 

No Action Alternative. 

Dated: July 10, 2009. 

David Hobbie, 

Chief, Regulatory Division. 

[FR Doc. E9–17167 Filed 7–17–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Navy 

Notice of Public Hearings for the U.S. 

Marine Corps Grow the Force at Marine 

Corps Base (MCB) Camp Lejeune, 

Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New 

River, and MCAS Cherry Point, North 

Carolina Draft Environmental Impact 

Statement 

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 

(102)(2)(c) of the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

(NEPA) (42 United States Code [U.S.C.] 

4321); the Council on Environmental 

Quality (CEQ) regulations for 

implementing the procedural provisions 

of NEPA (Title 40 Code of Federal 

Regulations [CFR] Parts 1500–1508); 

Department of Navy Procedures for 

Implementing NEPA (32 CFR Part 775); 

and Marine Corps NEPA directives 

(Marine Corps Order P5090.2A), the 

Marine Corps has prepared and filed 

with the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) a Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS) which evaluates 

the potential environmental 

consequences that may result from 

implementing the Grow the Force 

initiative in North Carolina in 

accordance with the President’s 

mandate and Congressional direction to 

increase end strength across the Marine 

Corps war-fighting organizations by the 

end of Fiscal Year 2011 (FY11). The 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 

Wilmington district, is a cooperating 

agency for the EIS. A Notice of Intent for 

this EIS was published in the Federal 

Register on December 14, 2007 (Vol. 72, 

No. 240, p. 71128). 

The Marine Corps will conduct three 

public hearings to receive oral and 

written comments on the Draft EIS. 

Federal, State, and local agencies and 

interested individuals are invited to be 

present or represented at the public 

hearing meetings. This notice 

announces the dates and locations of the 

public hearings for this Draft EIS; 

supplementary information about the 

environmental planning effort is also 

included in this notice. 

DATES: An open house session will 

precede the public hearing at each of the 

locations listed below. Individuals will 

be allowed to review the information 

presented in the Draft EIS and Marine 

Corps representatives will be available 

during the open house sessions to 

clarify information related to the Draft 

EIS. For all meetings the open house 

will be held from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., and 

the public hearing will be held from 

6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Public hearings will 

be held on the following dates and at 

the following locations in North 

Carolina: 

(1) Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 

Havelock Tourist and Event Center, 201 

Tourist Center Drive, Havelock, NC. 

(2) Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 

Jacksonville High School, Auditorium, 

1021 Henderson Drive, Jacksonville, NC. 

(3) Thursday, August 20, 2009, Holly 

Ridge Community Center, 404 Sound 

Road, Holly Ridge, NC. 

The Draft EIS was distributed to 

Federal, State, and local agencies, 

elected officials, and other interested 

parties and organizations on July 17, 

2009. The public comment period will 

end on September 1, 2009. Copies of the 

Draft EIS are available for public review 

at the following libraries: Onslow 

County Public Library, 58 Doris Ave. 

East, Jacksonville, NC 28540; Richlands 

Branch Library, 299 S. Wilmington St., 

Richlands, NC 28574; Sneads Ferry 

Branch Library, 242 Sneads Ferry Rd., 

Sneads Ferry, NC 28460; Law Library 

Branch, 109 Old Bridge St., Jacksonville, 

NC 28540; and Havelock-Craven County 

Public Library, 301 Cunningham 

Boulevard, Havelock, NC 28532. The 

Draft EIS is also available for electronic 

public viewing at: http:// 

www.GrowTheForceNC.com. 

A paper copy of the Draft EIS will be 

made available upon written request by 

contacting Naval Facilities Engineering 

Command Mid-Atlantic, Marine Corps 

Grow the Force in NC, EIS Project 

Manager, 6506 Hampton Boulevard, 

Norfolk, VA 23508. 

Comments: Federal, State, and local 

agencies and interested parties are 

invited to be present or be represented 

at the public hearings. Written 

comments can be submitted during the 

open house sessions preceding the 

public hearings. 

Oral statements will be heard and 

transcribed by a stenographer; however, 

to ensure the accuracy of the record, all 

statements should be submitted in 

writing. All statements, both oral and 

written, will become part of the public 

record on the Draft EIS and will be 

responded to in the Final EIS. Equal 

weight will be given to both oral and 

written statements. In the interest of 

available time, and to ensure all who 

wish to give an oral statement have the 

opportunity to do so, each speaker’s 

comments will be limited to three (3) 

minutes. If a long statement is to be 

presented, it should be summarized at 

the public hearing with the full text 

submitted in writing at the hearing, or 

mailed to Naval Facilities Engineering 

Command Mid-Atlantic, Marine Corps 

Grow the Force in NC, EIS Project 

Manager, 6506 Hampton Boulevard, 

Norfolk, VA 23508. In addition, 

comments may be submitted on-line at 

http://www.GrowTheForceNC.com 

during the 45-day comment period. All 

written comments must be postmarked 

by September 8, 2009, to ensure they 

become part of the official record. All 

comments will be addressed in the Final 

EIS. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Michael H. Jones, telephone: (757) 322– 

4942. Please submit requests for special 

assistance, sign language interpretation 

for the hearing impaired or other 

auxiliary aids at the public meetings to 

Mr. Jones by August 4, 2009. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

proposed action and subject of the Draft 

EIS covers the permanent, incremental 

increase of active duty and civilian 

personnel and their dependents at three 

North Carolina Marine Corps 

Installations: MCB Camp Lejeune, 

MCAS New River, and MCAS Cherry 

Point. The increase in personnel is part 

of a nationwide Presidential mandate 

for the Marine Corps to grow its force 

size from 186,000 to 202,000 Marines by 

the end of FY11. Three action 

alternatives and a No Action Alternative 

were carried forward for analysis in the 

Draft EIS. 

The No Action Alternative 

(Alternative 1) was examined in the 

Draft EIS. Under this alternative, the 

permanent, incremental increase of 

Marine Corps personnel at North 

Carolina Installations would not occur. 

This alternative is included to provide 

a baseline from which to gauge potential 

impacts of the action alternatives, even 

though it would not meet the purpose 

and need to permanently increase 

Marine Corps personnel at North 

Carolina bases. In addition, it is 

incompatible with the President’s 

mandate to increase Marine Corps 

personnel. 

The Preferred Alternative (Alternative 

2) includes the addition of 

approximately 7,700 personnel at MCB 

Camp Lejeune, 1,400 at MCAS New 

River, and close to 800 at MCAS Cherry 

Point (total of 9,900 active duty and 

civilian personnel), as well as 

approximately 9,450 dependents. 


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To support this growth, a multi-year, 

major construction effort would occur at 

all three installations. Proposed 

infrastructure development at each 

installation (at least to some extent) 

includes: Constructing administrative, 

educational, training, maintenance, and 

operations facilities; providing living 

accommodations (housing, lodging, and 

mess halls); building Morale, Welfare, 

and Recreation facilities (fitness centers, 

medical/dental clinics, child 

development centers); demolishing 

existing buildings and infrastructure; 

and constructing and/or upgrading 

infrastructure (e.g., roads, power, and 

communications). Proposed 

development would result in 

approximately 1,700 acres of 

disturbance at MCB Camp Lejeune, 160 

acres at MCAS New River, and 117 acres 

at MCAS Cherry Point. 

Under Alternative 3 the same 

permanent increase of Marines and 

dependents would occur at the three 

North Carolina Installations as 

described for the Preferred Alternative; 

however, a reduced construction effort 

would be implemented. This alternative 

meets the purpose and need to establish 

the Marine Corps personnel increases 

on a permanent basis; however, once 

deployments are curtailed and Marines 

return to their home stations from 

abroad, infrastructure capacity to 

support all the Marines would be 

considerably strained at the three 

Installations. Under this alternative 

proposed development would result in 

approximately 360 acres of disturbance 

at MCB Camp Lejeune, 90 acres at 

MCAS New River, and 40 acres at 

MCAS Cherry Point. 

Under Alternative 4, the same 

permanent increase of Marines and 

dependents would occur at the three 

Installations as described in the 

Preferred Alternative; however, no 

construction projects or infrastructure 

development would occur. The 

increased personnel would be 

accommodated in existing facilities or 

temporary/relocatable buildings already 

in place. The purpose and need for the 

Proposed Action would be met; 

however, by not implementing any 

construction projects or upgrades, 

infrastructure capacity to support all the 

Marines would be considerably strained 

at all three Installations. 

Environmental resources addressed in 

the Draft EIS include land use and 

coastal zone management; 

socioeconomics; recreation and visual 

resources; community services and 

facilities; transportation and traffic; 

utilities and infrastructure; hazardous 

materials, toxic substances, and 

hazardous waste; noise; air quality; 

natural resources, including threatened 

and endangered species; earth resources 

(e.g., soils and geology); water resources 

(e.g., surface waters and wetlands); and 

cultural resources. The Draft EIS also 

accounts for cumulative impacts from 

other past, present, and reasonably 

foreseeable future actions in the 

Jacksonville and Havelock, North 

Carolina regional area. 

The Draft EIS analyses indicate that 

the proposed personnel increases would 

substantially increase the population 

residing on the three Marine Corps 

installations, as well as the population 

within the surrounding communities of 

Onslow, Craven, and Carteret counties. 

Onslow and Craven counties are 

anticipated to receive 95 percent of the 

growth directly associated with the 

proposed action. The influx of 

personnel would have direct impacts 

(but not at a magnitude to introduce 

major adverse effects) to 

socioeconomics, community services 

(specifically schools in Onslow County), 

utilities, and local traffic. The Preferred 

Alternative would, however, introduce 

positive input into the local economy 

from economic gains associated with 

military salaries and taxes (long-term 

gain) and major construction efforts 

(short-term gain). 

The proposed construction and 

demolition would have adverse impacts 

to cultural resources at MCB Camp 

Lejeune (demolition of three historic 

buildings). Mitigation measures will be 

developed in consultation with the 

North Carolina State Historic 

Preservation Officer. Proposed 

construction also has the potential to 

impact wetlands at all three 

installations. However, these impacts 

are not anticipated to be significant due 

to the best management practices 

utilized by the Marine Corps. 

Schedule: A Notice of Availability 

(NOA) of the Draft EIS will be published 

both in the Federal Register and local 

print media, which starts the 45-day 

public comment period for the Draft 

EIS. The Marine Corps will consider 

and respond to all comments received 

on the Draft EIS when preparing the 

Final EIS. The Department of the Navy 

intends to issue the Final EIS no later 

than December 2009, at which time a 

NOA will be published in the Federal 

Register and local media. A Record of 

Decision will be issued no sooner than 

30 days following publication of the 

Final EIS. 

Dated: July 14, 2009. 

A.M. Vallandingham, 

Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate 

General’s Corps, U.S. Navy, Federal Register 

Liaison Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

[Docket ID USA–2009–0017] 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice to add a system of 

records. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the Army 

is proposing to add a system of records 

to its existing inventory of records 

systems subject to the Privacy Act of 

1974, (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended. 

DATES: The proposed action will be 

effective on August 19, 2009 unless 

comments are received that would 

result in a contrary determination. 

ADDRESSES: Department of the Army, 

Freedom of Information/Privacy 

Division, U.S. Army Records 

Management and Declassification 

Agency, 7701 Telegraph Road, Casey 

Building, Suite 144, Alexandria, VA 

22325–3905. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Leroy Jones at (703) 428–6185. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of the Army systems of 

records notices subject to the Privacy 

Act of 1974, (5 U.S.C. 552a), as 

amended, have been published in the 

Federal Register and are available from 

the address above. 

The proposed system report, as 

required by 5 U.S.C. 552a(r) of the 

Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, was 

submitted on July 10, 2009, to the House 

Committee on Oversight and 

Government Reform, the Senate 

Committee on Homeland Security and 

Governmental Affairs, and the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

pursuant to paragraph 4c of Appendix I 

to OMB Circular No. A–130, ‘Federal 

Agency Responsibilities for Maintaining 

Records About Individuals’, dated 

February 8, 1996 (February 20, 1996, 61 

FR 6427). 


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