[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 168 (Wednesday, September 3, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 42671]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-16880]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration


Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Assessment and 
Mitigated Finding of No Significant Impact/Record of Decision for 
SpaceX Falcon 9 Operations at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Cape 
Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Department of 
Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The FAA is announcing the availability of the Final 
Environmental Assessment and Mitigated Finding of No Significant 
Impact/Record of Decision for SpaceX Falcon 9 Operations at Space 
Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida (Final 
EA). The Final Environmental Assessment analyzes: Up to 120 Falcon 9 
launches annually at SLC-40, which represents an annual increase of 70 
launches from the 50 previously analyzed in a July 2020 EA; 
construction and operation of a landing zone at SLC-40; and up to 34 
first-stage booster landings at the new landing zone annually. The 
Final EA also evaluates the potential environmental impacts associated 
with FAA's approval of related airspace closures. The FAA has posted 
the Final Environmental Assessment and Mitigated Finding of No 
Significant Impact/Record of Decision on the FAA Office of Commercial 
Space Transportation website: https://www.faa.gov/space/stakeholder_engagement/SpaceX_Falcon_SLC_40_EA.
    The Unique ID for this document is EAXX-021-12-000-1737545438.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eva Long via the project email address 
at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FAA published the Draft Environmental 
Assessment for public comment on March 14, 2025. A public meeting was 
scheduled for April 16, 2025. The public comment period was extended to 
May 15, 2025, due to the national Zoom outage on April 16, 2025, and 
the public meeting was rescheduled for May 8, 2025. The FAA received 
4,275 public comments on the Draft Environmental Assessment. The Final 
Environmental Assessment considers all input provided on the Draft 
Environmental Assessment and addresses substantive comments received, 
as appropriate.
    The United States Department of the Air Force (DAF) is a 
cooperating agency for this Final EA. To meet the DAF's National 
Environmental Policy Act requirements for adopting the FAA's 
Environmental Assessment as a cooperating agency, (see 32 CFR 989.15(e) 
(2024)), FAA posted a link to the Draft Finding of No Significant 
Impact (Draft FONSI) for public comment on behalf of the DAF. The DAF 
may adopt the Final EA and issue a separate decision document.

    Issued in Washington, DC on: August 29, 2025.
Stacey Molinich Zee,
Manager, Operations Support Branch.
[FR Doc. 2025-16880 Filed 9-2-25; 8:45 am]
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