{"content":[{"text":"DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE \n Department of the Navy \n Record of Decision for the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Guam \n and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Military Relocation","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.096783,"width":0.7648820000000001,"height":0.09356100000000002}},{"text":"AGENCY: Department of the Navy, Department of Defense","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.203752,"width":0.44679299999999994,"height":0.020985000000000004}},{"text":"ACTION: Record of Decision \n SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy (DON), after carefully considering the environmental \n consequences of the proposed action, as well as strategic, operational, and training requirements, \n obligations under treaties and other international agreements, and cost, announces its decision to construct \n and operate a main base (cantonment area), a family housing area, a live-fire training range complex \n (LFTRC), and associated infrastructure on Guam to support the relocation of a substantially reduced \n number of Marines and dependents than previously analyzed in a 2010 Final Environmental Impact \n Statement (EIS) (Guam and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Military \n Relocation; Relocating Marines from Okinawa, Visiting Aircraft Carrier Berthing, and Army Air and \n Missile Defense Task Force). The DON has selected the preferred alternative as identified in the 2015 \n Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS), consisting of a cantonment at Naval \n Computer and Telecommunications Station Finegayan (Finegayan) and family housing at Andersen Air \n Force Base (AAFB) (Alternative E in the 2015 Final SEIS), and a LFTRC at AAFB–Northwest Field \n (NWF) (Alternative 5 in the 2015 Final SEIS). The LFTRC also includes a stand-alone hand grenade \n range at Andersen South. Under Alternatives E and 5, the DON will be able to meet current and future \n DON and Department of Defense (DoD) training and operational requirements. \n This Record of Decision (ROD) documents why the DoD has chosen to implement the preferred \n alternatives as described in the 2015 Final SEIS. The ROD includes descriptions and discussions of the \n anticipated environmental impacts of the proposed action. It also includes descriptions and discussions of \n all related actions and their anticipated impacts. \n The selected cantonment/family housing Alternative E comprises approximately 1,751 acres (709 \n hectares [ha]) of land (not including offsite utility corridor improvements which total approximately 150 \n acres [60 ha]) that are currently under the custody and control of the DoD. The selected LFTRC \n Alternative 5 at AAFB-NWF includes a construction footprint area of approximately 338 acres (137 ha) \n plus an additional 3,701 acres (1,498 ha) of land and submerged land for surface danger zones (SDZs). \n The entire LFTRC Alternative 5 construction footprint is currently under the custody and control of the \n federal government. Although the selected alternative does not require acquisition of non-federal land on \n Guam, access restrictions already established by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) at the \n Ritidian Unit of the Guam National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) (which is managed by the USFWS) may be \n adjusted to account for the establishment of the SDZs for the LFTRC once it is operational. In accordance \n with the provisions of section 2822 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for the fiscal year \n (FY) 2015 (Pub. L. No. 113–291), the DON will pursue an agreement with the USFWS to establish and \n operate a SDZ associated with LFTRC Alternative 5 that will allow for the continued management of and \n access to the Ritidian Unit consistent with the purposes for which it was established. \n This decision adopts all of the mitigation measures that were identified in the 2015 Final SEIS to avoid or \n minimize adverse environmental impacts from the preferred alternatives with the exception of proposed","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.237995,"width":0.765117,"height":0.666649}},{"text":"Page | 1","bbox":{"left":0.471879,"top":0.936655,"width":0.05627500000000002,"height":0.018595000000000028}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}