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| E9-21814 | Environmental Impact Statements; Availability | Notice | Notice is hereby given that the Maritime Administration, of the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) has made available to interested parties the Final Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) and the Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Removal of Non- Retention Vessels from National Defense Reserve Fleet Sites for Disposal. The PEA and FONSI have been prepared pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) (U.S.C. 4231 et seq.) in accordance with the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations for implementing the procedural provisions of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500- 1508). The purpose of the PEA is to evaluate the potential environmental impacts from and alternatives to the Removal of Non-Retention Vessels from National Defense Reserve Fleet Sites for Disposal proposed by the Maritime Administration. The Maritime Administration is charged with disposing of obsolete "non-retention" U.S. government-owned merchant type vessels of 1,500 gross tons or more per Section 203 of the Federal Property and Administrative Service Act of 1949, as amended (40 U.S.C. 548 (2008)). Non-retention vessels are vessels that have been determined by the Maritime Administration to be of insufficient value for commercial or military operation by the Federal Government to merit further preservation. 46 U.S.C. 57102 (2008). The Maritime Administration's non-retention ships are located at three fleet anchorages: James River, Virginia, Beaumont, Texas, and Suisun Bay, California. The Maritime Administration is proposing to tow obsolete vessels from these three fleet anchorages either to one of seven Maritime Administration-qualified or provisionally qualified recycling facilities across the United States or others that may be qualified in the future, or to various locations (to be determined on a case by case basis) to be used as artificial reefs, or sold for reuse as limited by applicable law, or to be donated for use as memorials and museums, or to be used by the U.S. Navy in at-sea training exercises referred to as Sinking Exercises, or SINKEX, during which the Navy fires live munitions at the vessel to give trainees a better sense of the capabilities of Navy weaponry. Following the use of live fire, vessels are allowed to sink to the sea bottom. The PEA studies potential environmental effects associated with the removal and disposal of non-retention vessels. The PEA considers potential effects to the natural and manmade environments including: Air quality, water quality, vessel traffic, cultural & historic resources, wetlands, benthic communities, fish resources, threatened & endangered species, socioeconomic resources, human health & safety, and other topics associated with the proposed action. The Maritime Administration assessed the potential environmental consequences of the Proposed Action and the No Action alternative, and found no significant impact to the human and natural environments from implementation of the proposed action. The Maritime Administration announced the availability of the draft of this Final Programmatic Environmental Assessment July 2, 2008 and made it available to the public for comment. Responses to comments can be found online at http:/ /www.regulations.gov at Docket ID MARAD-2008-0060. | 2009-09-10 | 2009 | 9 | https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2009/09/10/E9-21814/environmental-impact-statements-availability | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2009-09-10/pdf/E9-21814.pdf | Transportation Department; Maritime Administration | 492,282 | Notice is hereby given that the Maritime Administration, of the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) has made available to interested parties the Final Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) and the Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI)... |