[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 149 (Thursday, August 1, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 40204]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-19549]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Navy


Notice To Reopen the Public Comment Period and To Announce Public 
Hearings for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for Shock 
Testing the SEAWOLF Submarine

SUMMARY: Per Section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act 
(NEPA) of 1969 as implemented by the Council on Environmental Quality 
regulations (40 CFR Parts 1500-1508), the Department of the Navy (DoN) 
prepared and filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency a DEIS 
evaluating the environmental effects for the shock testing for the 
SEAWOLF Submarine, at a site to be located offshore of either Norfolk, 
Virginia, or Mayport, Florida. DoN is the lead agency and the National 
Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is a cooperating agency in the 
development of the DEIS. NMFS is concurrently evaluating DoN's request 
for a Letter of Authorization for the Incidental Take of Marine Mammals 
in their regulatory role under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
    Notice of Availability for the DEIS appeared in the Federal 
Register on June 14, 1996. That Notice stated that comments on the DEIS 
were due by July 29, 1996. DoN is reopening the public comment period 
that will now extend through September 17, 1996. All written comments 
shall be postmarked no later than that date. This comment period 
coincides with the NMFS comment period on its Proposed Rule for 
Incidental Take of Marine Mammals for the DoN's proposed shock testing 
of SEAWOLF.

ADDRESSES: The public hearings will be jointly hosted by DoN and NMFS. 
The public is invited to comment on the DEIS and Proposed Rule. The 
hearings have been scheduled as follows: (1) August 19, 1996, 10 AM to 
4 PM, at Silver Spring Metro Center, Building 4, 1st Floor Conference 
Room, 1305 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD; (2) August 20, 1996, 7 
PM to 10 PM, Lafayette Winona Middle School, 1701 Alsace Avenue, 
Norfolk, VA; and (3) August 21, 1996, 7 PM to 10 PM, Mayport Middle 
School, 2600 Mayport Road, Atlantic Beach, FL.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Will Sloger, Code 064WS, Southern 
Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, P.O. Box 190010, North 
Charleston, South Carolina 29419-9010, telephone (803) 820-5797, FAX 
(803) 820-5993.

    Dated: 26 July 1996.
M.A. Waters,
Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 96-19549 Filed 7-31-96; 8:45 am]
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