[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 147 (Tuesday, August 1, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 39157]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-18823]



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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 Air Station (NAS) 
Glenview, IL

    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 NAS Glenview, Illinois.
    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 
(Pub. L. 101-510), NAS Glenview, Illinois 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 
NAS Glenview 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 NAS 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 Consensus Reuse Plan 
approved by the Glenview Community Reuse Planning Group.
    The preferred alternative for NAS Glenview is a combination of land 
uses which integrates the site with the Glenview community. It includes 
low and moderate density residential, a variety of public uses, retail, 
office/warehouse, light industrial, commercial, a sports, leisure, and 
entertainment component, a new Metra commuter rail station, and land 
devoted to open space and preservation of the existing golf course. The 
plan will generate approximately 5,100 jobs, slightly increase the 
amount of wetlands, and increase local traffic in the area of the base.
    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.
    A public hearing to inform the public of the DEIS findings and to 
solicit comments will be held at the Glenview Village Hall, 1225 
Waukegan Rd. on Thursday evening, August 17, 1995, from 7 p.m. until 
the end of public 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 public 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 5 September 1995, to become a part of the official 
record.
    Additional information concerning this notice may be obtained by 
contacting Tom Burst (Code 064TB), Southern Division, Naval Facilities 
Engineering Command, PO Box 190010, North Charleston, South Carolina, 
29419-9010, telephone (803) 743-0590.

    Dated: July 25, 1995.
L.R. McNees,
LCDR, JAGC, USN, Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 95-18823 Filed 7-31-95; 8:45 am]
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