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[FR Doc No: 94-12242]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary of the Army

 

Intent To Prepare a Programmatic Draft Environmental Impact 
Statement (PDEIS) for the Master Plan Update at United State Army 
Intelligence Center and Fort Huachuca, Arizona

AGENCY: Department of Army, DoD

ACTION: Notice of intent.

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SUMMARY: United States Army Intelligence Center and Fort Huachuca 
provides year-round program development and testing facilities, 
administration, and logistical support to both active and reserve 
component units from all branches of the armed services. The proposed 
master plan formalizes the United States Army Intelligence Center and 
For Huachuca's priorities for intelligence development and testing 
programs, and developing training ranges, maneuver areas, and 
facilities over a twenty year period. This plan will prepare the United 
States Army Intelligence Center and Fort Huachuca to enter the 21st 
century with the assets required for program development, and to 
conduct highly realistic, challenging, and safe training to Army 
Training and Evaluation Program (ARTEP) standards.
    The installation real property master plan is being updated and 
requires a supporting PDEIS for the following reasons:
    a. The master plan update identifies major changes in development 
for the installation.
    b. Several projects identified in the master plan update would 
require individual EIS's because they will potentially cause 
unavoidable significant impacts to the environment.
    c. An EA prepared for the installation ongoing mission developed in 
1976 is inadequate and in need of revision to reflect current and 
projected activities.

Alternatives

    a. No action. Installation ongoing operations, development and 
training would continue at current levels.
    b. Master plan and component plans would be implemented and current 
development and testing and training levels would be maintained. 
Construction listed in the master plan would be implemented.
    c. Master plan and component plans would be expanded. Development 
and testing programs would be expanded. Training would be expanded. 
Construction above the level outlined in the master plan would be 
implemented to meet total requirements. The installation master plan 
for intelligence development and testing programs, and training, will 
be evaluated as occurrences under each of the above alternatives.

Lead Agency

    United States Army Intelligence Center and Fort Huachuca, AZ.

Scoping

    Comments received as a result of this notice will be used to assist 
in evaluating the impacts of the master plan on the environment, 
social, historical, archaeological and socioeconomic aspects of the 
United States Army Intelligence Center and Fort Huachuca and the 
surrounding area. A scoping meeting will be held in the vicinity of the 
United States Army Intelligence Center and Fort Huachuca within 30 days 
of the publication of this NOI.
ADDRESSES: Contact Tom Cochran at (602) 544-3120, or at the following 
address: Commander, U.S. Army Garrison, ATTN: ATZS-EHB (Tom Cochran), 
Fort Huachuca, AZ 85613-6000.

    Dated: May 16, 1994.
Lewis D. Walker,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Environment, Safety and 
Occupational Health), OASA (I, L&E).
[FR Doc. 94-12242 Filed 5-18-94; 8:45 am]
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