[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 104 (Wednesday, May 31, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28393-28394]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-13223]



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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Navy


Notice of Public Hearing for the Draft Environmental Impact 
Statement for the Disposal and Reuse of the Naval Training Center 
(NTC), Orlando, FL

    Pursuant to Council on Environmental Quality Regulations (40 CFR 
parts 1500-1508) implementing procedural provisions of the National 
Environmental Policy Act, the Department of the Navy has prepared and 
filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency the Draft 
Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Proposed Disposal and 
Reuse of the NTC Orlando, Florida.
    In response to the recommendations of the 1993 Department of 
Defense Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC-93) and to 
legislative requirements of the 1990 Base Realignment and Closure Act 
(Public Law 101-510), the Naval Training Center (NTC), Orlando, 
Florida, is to be closed and the property to be made available for 
disposal and reuse. The Navy has prepared a DEIS which addresses the 
environmental impacts of disposing NTC Orlando and of its potential 
reuse. The purpose of the DEIS is to assist the Secretary of the Navy 
in making a decision concerning the disposition of NTC property. It is 
the Navy's policy to adopt the community's redevelopment plan as its 
preferred alternative. The preferred alternative presented in the DEIS 
is the NTC Reuse Plan approved by the City of Orlando.
    The preferred alternative for the Main Base is a combination of 
land uses, featuring a Village Center, which would provide pedestrian-
oriented retail, office, and residential uses. The Village Center would 
be surrounded by offices, a business park, education, recreation, and 
open space. The primary use of McCoy Annex would be warehouse/
distribution and residential. Open space uses would include retention 
of the nine-hole golf course and other non-developed areas. Area C 
would be used for warehouse and industrial, and the Herndon Annex would 
be developed as a distribution facility associated with the Orlando 
Executive Airport. The preferred alternative would generate more than 
15,500 jobs at full buildout in 2015, and increase traffic in the area 
substantially.
    The DEIS has been distributed to various federal, state, and local 
agencies, elected officials, special interest groups, and the media. A 
limited number of single copies are available at the address listed at 
the end of this notice. [[Page 28394]] 
    A public hearing to inform the public of the DEIS findings and to 
solicit comments will be held at the Audobon Elementary School, 1500 
Falcon Drive, Orlando, Florida, on Thursday evening, June 15, 1995, 
from 7 p.m. until the end of pubic comment or 12 midnight.
    The public hearing will be conducted by the Navy. Federal, state 
and local agencies, and interested parties are invited and urged to be 
present or represented at the hearing. Oral statements will be heard 
and transcribed by a legal stenographer; however, to ensure accuracy of 
the record, all statements should be submitted in writing. All 
statements, oral and written, will become a part of the pubic record of 
this study, and will be responded to in the Final Environmental Impact 
Statement. Equal weight will be given to both oral and written 
statements.
    In the interest of available time, each speaker will be asked to 
limit his/her comments to five minutes. If longer statements are to be 
presented, they should be summarized for the public hearing and 
submitted in long-form at the hearing or mailed to the address listed 
at the end of this announcement. All written comments must be 
postmarked by 26 June 1995, to become a part of the official record.
    Additional information concerning this notice may be obtained by 
contacting Ronnie Lattimore (Code 064RL), Southern Division, Naval 
Facilities Engineering Command, PO Box 190010, North Charleston, South 
Carolina, 29419-9010, telephone (803) 743-0888.

    Dated: May 25, 1995.
L.R. McNees,
LCDR, JAGC, USN, Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 95-13223 Filed 5-30-95; 8:45 am]
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