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[FR Doc No: 94-17884]


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[Federal Register: July 22, 1994]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

 

Notice of the Availability of the Environmental Assessment and 
Negative Declaration Regarding the Consolidation of the Defense Mapping 
Agency (DMA) Printing and Distribution Functions to St. Louis, MO

AGENCY: Defense Mapping Agency.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In July 1993, in response to a tasking by Major General 
Raymund E. O'Mara, U.S. Air Force, the Director, DEFENSE MAPPING AGENCY 
(DMA), 8613 Lee Highway, Fairfax, VA 22031-2137, and following the 
disruption to DMA's operations in the St. Louis, MO area as a result of 
the floods, a Study Team was established to consider the future of 
DMA's printing and distribution operations. On 4 January 1994, the 
Study Team reported to the Director, DMA, and made certain 
recommendations calling for the streamlining of those operations to the 
end of improving customer service, making better use of resources, and 
realizing recurring cost savings. Among other things, the Study Team 
recommended that a plan to consolidate the management of the DMA 
printing and distribution operations and a detailed action plan for the 
collocation of DMA's printing and distribution operations in a new 
facility to be built in the St. Louis, MO area by 1998 be developed. In 
an announcement made 7 January 1994, the Director approved the Study 
Team's recommendations, including the recommendations to develop a plan 
to consolidate the DMA printing and distribution operations and to 
develop an action plan for the collocation of those operations in St. 
Louis, MO. As part of that action plan, the U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers, Kansas City District, acting on behalf of the DMA, 
contracted for an Environmental Assessment of the DMA proposal to 
consolidate and collocate printing and distribution. The Environmental 
Assessment was prepared to evaluate the relocation of a new site in the 
St. Louis metropolitan area of certain elements of the DMA Aerospace 
Center's printing operations conducted at 8900 South Broadway, St. 
Louis, MO prior to the flooding and the consolidation to this proposed 
new St. Louis location of current DMA printing and distribution 
activities located at Philadelphia, PA, Bethesda, MD, and Riverdale, 
MD.
    Notice is hereby given, pursuant to section 102(2)(C) of the 
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the Council on Environmental 
Quality Guidelines (40 Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.) Part 1500) 
and Department of Defense Regulation ``Environmental Effects in the 
United States of DoD Actions'' (32 C.F.R. Part 188) that an 
Environmental Impact Statement is not being prepared for the proposed 
consolidation of the DMA printing and distribution operations and their 
collocation in the St. Louis, MO area at the Richardson Road site 
located near I-55 in northeast Jefferson County, MO. The Environmental 
Assessment of this proposed action indicates that the proposed action 
will not create any significant adverse impact on the physical 
environment and that no significant controversy related to the natural 
environment is associated therewith. As a result of these findings, the 
Chief, Safety and Health Division, Human Resources Directorate, DMA, 
has determined that the preparation of an Environmental Impact 
Statement is not required in this case.
    It is anticipated that approximately 250 positions Agency-wide will 
be reduced as a result of this proposed action. Retraining, relocation 
and retirement incentives will be used to minimize the impact of this 
consolidation; however, pending a final agency decision, the specifics 
of any such incentives have yet to be developed.
    The Environmental Assessment and the Finding of No Significant 
Impact are on file and may be reviewed by interested parties.

DATE: Administrative action on implementation of the decision will be 
deferred for thirty (30) days from the date of publication, at which 
time implementation will begin unless comments are received which 
result in a contrary determination.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ms. Barbara B. Engel, DMA HQ, Office of Human Resources, Safety & 
Health Division, 8613 Lee Highway, Fairfax, VA 22031-2137, phone number 
(703) 285-9161.

    Dated: July 18, 1994.
Patricia L. Toppings,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 94-17884 Filed 7-21-94; 8:45 am]
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