[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 149 (Tuesday, August 4, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 46252]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-19050]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE


Department of the Navy

Notice of Availability of Record of Decision for the Final 
Environmental Impact Statement/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement 
for Mariana Islands Training and Testing

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy (DoN), after carefully weighing the 
strategic, operational, and environmental consequences of the proposed 
action, announces its decision to implement Alternative 1, the Navy's 
preferred alternative, as described in the Mariana Islands Training and 
Testing (MITT) Final Environmental Impact Statement/Overseas 
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS/OEIS). Under Alternative 1, the 
Navy will be able to meet current and future DoN and DoD training and 
testing requirements, including the use of active sonar and explosives 
within the MITT Study Area. The MITT study area is composed of 
established sea-based (at-sea) ranges and land-based training areas on 
Guam and the Commonwealth of the Mariana Islands, and operating areas 
and special use airspace in the regions of the Mariana Islands that are 
part of the Mariana Islands Range Complex (MIRC). The Study Area also 
includes a transit corridor that connects the MIRC and the Hawaiian 
Islands Range Complex and pierside sonar maintenance and testing 
alongside Navy piers located in Inner Apra Harbor.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The complete text of the Record of Decision 
is available at https://mitt-eis.com. Single copies of the Record of 
Decision are available upon request by contacting: MITT EIS/OEIS 
Project Manager, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific, 258 
Makalapa Drive, Suite 100, Pearl Harbor, HI 96860-3134.

    Dated: July 29, 2015.
N.A. Hagerty-Ford,
Commander, Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Navy, Federal Register 
Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015-19050 Filed 8-3-15; 8:45 am]
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