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The USAF proposes to improve an existing airport or airports and associated infrastructure in support of expanding mission requirements in the western Pacific. Under this action, the USAF proposes to construct facilities and infrastructure at an existing airport or airports to support a combination of cargo, fighter, and tanker aircraft and associated support personnel for divert landings, periodic exercises, and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. Unplanned divert landings and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief would occur at the airport or airports proposed for improvements as required. The purpose of the Proposed Action is to establish additional divert capabilities to support and conduct current, emerging, and future training activities, while ensuring the capability to meet mission requirements in the event that access to Andersen Air Force Base (AFB) or other western Pacific locations is limited or denied. The USAF has determined that an EIS is required for this proposal. Topics considered in the impacts analysis are those determined, through both the internal and public scoping processes, to be relevant to the Proposed Action, and include noise; air quality; airspace management and airport operations, and bird/wildlife aircraft strike hazard; geological resources and soils; water resources; terrestrial biological resources; marine biological resources; cultural resources; recreation; land use; transportation; hazardous materials and waste management; infrastructure and utilities; socioeconomics and environmental justice; and human health and safety.
The United States Department of the Navy (Navy) prepared this Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)/Overseas EIS (OEIS) in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 (42 United States Code §4321 et seq.); the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations for Implementing the Procedural Provisions of NEPA (Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations [C.F.R.] §§1500 et seq.); Navy Procedures for Implementing NEPA (32 C.F.R. §775); and Executive Order 12114, Environmental Effects Abroad of Major Federal Actions. The Navy identified its need to support and conduct current, emerging, and future training and testing activities in the Mariana Islands Training and Testing (MITT) Study Area (Study Area), which is made up of the Mariana Islands Range Complex, additional areas on the high seas, and a transit corridor where training and testing activities may occur. Three alternatives were analyzed in this EIS/OEIS: The No Action Alternative represents those training and testing activities as set forth in previously completed environmental planning documentation. Alternative 1 (Preferred Alternative) consists of the No Action Alternative, plus the expansion of Study Area boundaries and adjustments to location, type, and tempo of training and testing activities, which includes the addition of platforms and systems. Alternative 2 consists of all activities that would occur under Alternative 1 plus adjustments to the type and tempo of training and testing activities. In this EIS/OEIS, the Navy analyzed potential environmental impacts that result or could result from activities under the No Action Alternative, Alternative 1, and Alternative 2. The resources evaluated include ocean and biological resources (including marine mammals and threatened and endangered species), terrestrial resources, air quality, cultural resources, socioeconomic resources, and public health and safety.