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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

 
Notice of Availability of the National Missile Defense Deployment 
Draft Environmental Impact Statement

AGENCY: Ballistic Missile Defense Organization.

ACTION: Notice of Availability.

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SUMMARY: The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) announces 
the availability of the National Missile Defense Deployment Draft 
Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS). The DEIS assesses the potential 
impacts associated with the possible deployment of the NMD system. The 
NMD system would be a fixed, land-based, non-nuclear missile defense 
system with a land and space-based detection system capable of 
responding to limited strategic ballistic missile threats to the United 
States from a rogue nation. Potential deployment locations for the NMD 
elements include sites in Alaska and North Dakota. In addition, as the 
operational requirements are refined other regions may be identified.

PROPOSED ACTION AND ALTERNATIVES: The alternatives considered in the 
EIS are the No-Action Alternative and the Proposed Action. A No-Action 
Alternative would be a DoD recommendation not to deploy an NMD system 
at the time a decision is made but to continue NMD system development 
to improve NMD system capabilities. With the Proposed Action 
Alternative, a decision would be made to deploy the NMD system and the 
NMD element locations would be selected from the range of locations 
studied in the EIS.

PUBLIC HEARINGS: Public hearing locations and dates are as follows: (1) 
October 26, 6-9 PM; Langdon Activity Center, 516 10th Avenue, Langdon, 
North Dakota; (2) October 27, 6-9 PM; Civic Auditorium, 615 1st Avenue 
North, Grand Forks, North Dakota; (3) November 1, 6-9 PM; Carlson 
Community Activity Center, 2010 2nd Avenue, Fairbanks, Alaska; (4) 
November 2, 7-10 PM; Anderson School, 116 West 1st Street, Anderson, 
Alaska; (5) November 3, 6-9 PM; Delta High School, School Road, Delta 
Junction, Alaska; (6) November 4, 6-9 PM; WestCoast International Inn, 
3333 W. International Airport Rd., Anchorage, Alaska; and (7) November 
9, 6-9 PM; Days Inn, 2000 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia.

COMMENTS: Comments on the DEIS should be received by November 15, 1999. 
Written comments and inquiries of the DEIS should be directed to SMDC-
EN-V (Ms. Julia Hudson), U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, 
PO Box 1500, Huntsville, AL 35807-3801, telephone (256) 955-4822. 
Public reading copies of the DEIS will be available for review at the 
public libraries within the communities where the public hearings will 
be held and at the BMDO internet site at www.acq.osd.mil/bmdo/bmdolink/
html/nmd.html.

    Dated: September 24, 1999.
L.M. Bynum,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
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