[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 198 (Friday, October 13, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53344-53345]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-25319]



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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement 
(EIS) for Disposal of Property at the Defense Personnel Support Center 
(DPSC), Philadelphia, PA

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DOD.

ACTION: Notice of intent.

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SUMMARY: The Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commissions were 
established by Public Law 101-510, the Defense Base Closure and 
Realignment Act of 1990, to recommend military installations for 
realignment and closure. The 1993 Commission's recommendations were 
included in a report which was presented to the 

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President on July 1, 1993. The President approved and forwarded the 
report to Congress on July 2, 1993. Congress did not pass a joint 
resolution disapproving the recommendations within the stipulated 
period, and the recommendations thereby became law in October 1993.
    Public Law 101-510 exempts the decision-making processes of the 
Commission from the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act 
of 1969 (NEPA). The law also relieves the Department of Defense from 
the NEPA requirement to consider the need for closing, realigning, or 
transferring functions and from looking at alternative installations to 
close or realign. Nonetheless, the Department of the Army must still 
prepare environmental impact analyses during the process of property 
disposal and during the process of relocating functions installation 
after the receiving installation has been selected but before the 
functions are relocated. These analyses will include consideration of 
the direct and indirect environmental and socioeconomic effects of 
these actions and the cumulative impacts of other reasonably 
foreseeable actions affecting the installation during the same time.
    The Army intends to prepare an environmental impact statement to 
assess the environmental effects involved in disposing of DPSC, 
Philadelphia. Opportunities for public participation will be announced 
in the local newspaper. Comments from the public will be considered 
before any action is taken to implement this disposal action.
    Comments received as a result of this notice will be used to assist 
in evaluating the impacts of the disposal of DPSC on the environmental, 
social, historical, archaeological, and socioeconomic aspects of DPSC 
and the surrounding area.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
For further information regarding this environmental impact statement, 
please contact the DPSC Project Manager, Army Corps of Engineers, 
Mobile District, at (334) 690-2725.

    Dated: October 5, 1995.
Raymond J. Fatz,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Environment, Safety and 
Occupational Health) OASA (IL&E)
[FR Doc. 95-25319 Filed 10-12-95; 8:45 am]
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