[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 195 (Tuesday, October 9, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 61401]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-24749]



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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy


Notice of Change of Public Meeting Location for the Draft 
Legislative Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Renewal of 
the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range Land Withdrawal, California

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The location of one of the four public meetings on the Draft 
LEIS is being changed. The October 25, 2012 public meeting will now be 
held at the Oceanside City Council Chambers and Lobby, 330 North Coast 
Highway, Oceanside, CA. Each of the four public meetings will be 
conducted in an open house meeting format from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. A 
Notice of Public Meetings (NOPMs) for the Draft LEIS was published in 
the Federal Register on Friday, August 31, 2012 (Federal Register/Vol. 
77, No. 170, page 53189).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: CMAGR LEIS Project Manager (Attn: Ms. 
Kelly Finn), NAVFAC Southwest, 1220 Pacific Highway, Building 1 Central 
IPT, San Diego, CA 92132-5190; phone 619-532-4452. Additional 
supplementary information regarding the Chocolate Mountain Aerial 
Gunnery Range (CMAGR) Draft LEIS is available at 
www.chocolatemountainrenewal.com.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of the Navy, in cooperation 
with the Bureau of Land Management and Bureau of Reclamation, has 
prepared and filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency a 
Draft Legislative Environmental Impact Statement (LEIS) that evaluates 
the potential environmental consequences that may result from renewing 
the withdrawal of approximately 228,465 acres of public land for 
continued use as part of the CMAGR in Imperial and Riverside counties, 
California. A Notice of Availability and NOPMs for the Draft LEIS were 
published in the Federal Register on Friday, August 31, 2012 (Federal 
Register/Vol. 77, No. 170, pages 53189 and 53198).
    Each of the four public meetings will be conducted in an open house 
meeting format. The public meetings will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 8 
p.m. on the following dates and at the following locations:
    1. October 22, 2012 at the Yuma County Library, 2951 S. 21st Drive, 
Rooms B-C, Yuma, AZ.
    2. October 23, 2012 at the Southwest High School, 2001 Ocotillo 
Dr., El Centro, CA.
    3. October 24, 2012 at the Mizell Senior Center, 480 South Sunrise 
Way, Palm Springs, CA.
    4. October 25, 2012 at the City Council Chambers and Lobby, 330 
North Coast Highway, Oceanside, CA.
    Please submit requests for special assistance, sign language 
interpretation for the hearing impaired, or other auxiliary aids needed 
at the public meetings to the LEIS Project Manager at least five 
business days before the meeting date.
    Attendees will be able to submit written comments at the public 
meetings. A court reporter will be available to accept oral comments. 
Equal weight will be given to oral and written statements. Comments on 
the Draft LEIS may be submitted by: (1) Attending one of the public 
hearings and providing oral or written comments, (2) completing the 
comment form on the project's public Web site at 
www.chocolatemountainrenewal.com/Comment/Default.aspx, or (3) by 
sending a letter to the CMAGR LEIS Project Manager (Attn: Ms. Kelly 
Finn), NAVFAC Southwest, 1220 Pacific Highway, Building 1 Central IPT, 
San Diego, CA 92132-5190. All comments must be postmarked or 
electronically dated no later than November 30, 2012 to ensure they 
become part of the public record. All statements (oral transcription 
and written) submitted during the public review period will become part 
of the public record on the Draft LEIS and will be addressed in the 
Final LEIS. Before including your address, telephone number, email 
address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, 
please be aware that your entire comment--including any personal 
identifying information--may be made publicly available at any time. 
Although requests can be made to withhold personal identifying 
information from public review, it may not be possible to keep this 
information from disclosure.

    Dated: September 28, 2012.
D.G. Zimmerman,
Lieutenant Commander, Office of the Judge Advocate General, U.S. Navy, 
Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012-24749 Filed 10-5-12; 8:45 am]
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