Final Space Shuttle Program Programmatic Environmental Assessment
NASA has completed the
Final Space Shuttle Program (SSP) Programmatic Environmental Assessment (EA); Transition and Program Property Disposition to address the potential environmental impacts associated with the transition and retirement of the SSP. Based on the comments received to the draft environmental assessment released in February 2008, and pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Regulations for Implementing the Procedural Provisions of NEPA (40 CFR Parts 1500 - 1508), and NASA policy and procedures (14 CFR Part 1216, Subpart 1216.3), NASA has issued a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) with respect to the disposition of Space Shuttle Program real and personal property.
For more information on NASA transition, including updates to the NASA Workforce Transition Strategy, please visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/transition/home/index.html
Final SSP EA:
Complete Final SSP EA (26 MB PDF)
Front Matter (99 KB PDF)
Executive Summary (156 KB PDF)
Section 1 (181 KB PDF)
Section 2 (1.4 MB PDF)
Section 3 (17 MB PDF)
Section 4 (530 KB PDF)
Section 5 (46 KB PDF)
Section 6 (162 KB PDF)
Appendix A (111 KB PDF)
Appendix B (248 KB PDF)
Appendix B1 (4.6 MB PDF)
Appendix C (75 KB PDF)
Appendix D (159 KB PDF)
The
Finding of No Significant Impact (20 Kb PDF) appeared in the Federal Register on Friday, July 11, 2008. It appears at Volume 73, No. 134, pages 39989-39991.
Draft SSP EA
Complete Draft SSP EA (23 MB PDF)
The
Notice of Availability appeared in the Federal Register on Monday, Feb. 25, 2008. It appears at Volume 73, No. 37, page 10067.
For additional information on the SSP EA process, please contact:
Kathleen E. Callister
NEPA Program Manager
NASA Headquarters
(202) 358-1953
kathleen.e.callister@nasa.gov
