[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 180 (Thursday, September 17, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55838-55839]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-23244]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy


Record of Decision for the Final Supplemental Environmental 
Impact Statement for Guam and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands Military Relocation

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy (DON), after carefully considering 
the environmental consequences of the proposed action, as well as 
strategic, operational, and training requirements, obligations under 
treaties and other international agreements, and cost, announces its 
decision to construct and operate a main base (cantonment area), a 
family housing area, a live-fire training range complex (LFTRC), and 
associated infrastructure on Guam to support the relocation of a 
substantially reduced number of Marines and dependents than previously 
analyzed in a 2010 Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) (Guam and 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Military 
Relocation; Relocating Marines from Okinawa, Visiting Aircraft Carrier 
Berthing, and Army Air and Missile Defense Task Force).
    The proposed action will be accomplished as set out in Alternatives

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E and 5 as identified in the 2015 Final Supplemental Environmental 
Impact Statement (SEIS) as the preferred alternatives. Alternatives E 
and 5 consist of a cantonment at Naval Computer and Telecommunications 
Station Finegayan (Finegayan) and family housing at Andersen Air Force 
Base (AAFB), and a LFTRC at AAFB-Northwest Field (NWF). The LFTRC also 
includes a stand-alone hand grenade range at Andersen South. Under 
these selected alternatives, the DON will be able to meet current and 
future DON and Department of Defense (DoD) training and operational 
requirements.
    The Record of Decision (ROD) documents why the DoD has chosen to 
implement the preferred alternatives as described in the 2015 Final 
SEIS. The ROD includes descriptions and discussions of the anticipated 
environmental impacts of the proposed action. It also includes 
descriptions and discussions of all related actions and their 
anticipated impacts.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Director, Joint Guam Program Office 
Forward, P.O. Box 153246, Santa Rita, Guam 96915.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The complete text of the ROD is available 
for public viewing at www.guambuildupeis.us. Hard copies of the ROD 
will be available at the following locations: University of Guam Robert 
F. Kennedy Memorial Library, Government Documents Tan Siu Lin Building, 
UOG Station, Mangilao, GU 96923 and Nieves M. Flores Memorial Library, 
254 Martyr Street, Hag[aring]t[ntilde]a, GU 96910.

    Dated: September 9, 2015.
N.A. Hagerty-Ford,
Commander, Office of the Judge Advocate General, U.S. Navy, 
Administrative Law Division, Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015-23244 Filed 9-16-15; 8:45 am]
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