Continental United States Interceptor Site (CIS)
Draft EIS
The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) evaluates candidate sites for a potential future deployment of additional ground-based interceptors for homeland defense, as required by the fiscal year 2013 National Defense Authorization Act. For each of the sites, the following resource areas were assessed: air quality, airspace, biological resources, cultural resources, geology and soils, hazardous materials and hazardous waste management, health and safety, land use, noise, socioeconomics, transportation, utilities, water quality, wetlands, visual and aesthetic and environmental justice.
- CIS Draft EIS Executive Summary
- CIS Draft EIS Sections 1 thru 3.2
- CIS Draft EIS Section 3.3 Fort Custer Training Center, Michigan
- CIS Draft EIS Section 3.4 Camp Ravenna Joint Military Training Center, Ohio
- CIS Draft EIS Section 3.5 Fort Drum, New York
- CIS Draft EIS Section 3.6 Summary
- CIS Draft EIS Sections 4 thru 6
- CIS Draft EIS Appendices
Draft EIS Public Meeting Materials
Information below will be available at the Draft EIS public meetings in June 2016.
- Public Meeting Information Posters (2016)
- Public Meeting Fact Sheet - Fort Custer, MI Site Layouts
- Public Meeting Fact Sheet - Fort Drum, NY Site Layouts
- Public Meeting Fact Sheet - Camp Ravenna, OH Site Layouts
- Public Meeting Fact Sheet - CIS EIS Process
- News Release for Michigan meetings June 21 and June 23
- News Release for New York meeting June 28
- News Release for Ohio meeting June 30
Federal Register Notice - Extension of Public Comment Period to August 17
The MDA is extending the public comment period for the Draft EIS. The public comment period was set to end July 18 and has been extended by 30 days. The public comment period will now end on August 17, 2016. Notice of this extension was issued in the Federal Register on July 15. MDA is still on track to complete the Final EIS later this year.
NOA
The Notice of Availability (NOA) of the Draft EIS was published in the Federal Register on May 31, 2016.
NOI
The Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare an EIS was published in the Federal Register on July 16, 2014.
Scoping Materials/Fact Sheets
Information below was used during the EIS scoping meetings in 2014.
Scoping Report
The CIS EIS Scoping Report describes the scoping process, outreach and engagement, meeting format, interactions, and public comments received for the CIS EIS.
- File 1 of 11 CIS EIS Scoping Report
(Executive Summary, Chapters 1-15, Appendix A: Notice of Intent, Appendix B: Newspaper Advertisements, Appendix C: MDA Press Releases, Appendix D: Stakeholder Letter Templates) - File 2 of 11 CIS EIS Scoping Report
(Appendix E: Pre-Briefing to Local Leaders, Appendix F: CIS EIS Website, Appendix G: Fact Sheet Handouts, Appendix H: Posters at Public Scoping Meetings) - File 3 of 11 CIS EIS Scoping Report
(Appendix I: Sign-In Sheets from Public Scoping Meetings) - File 4 of 11 CIS EIS Scoping Report
(Appendix J: Newspaper Articles from Ohio and Maine) - File 5 of 11 CIS EIS Scoping Report
(Appendix J: Newspaper Articles from New York and Michigan) - File 6 of 11 CIS EIS Scoping Report
(Appendix K: Public Scoping Comments from Camp Ravenna Joint Military Training Center, Portage and Trumbull Counties, Ohio) - File 7 of 11 CIS EIS Scoping Report
(Appendix K: Public Scoping Comments from Center for Security Forces Detachment Kittery Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape Facility, Redington Township, Maine) - File 8 of 11 CIS EIS Scoping Report
(Appendix K: Public Scoping Comments from Fort Drum, New York) - File 9 of 11 CIS EIS Scoping Report
(Appendix K: Public Scoping Comments from Fort Custer Training Center, Michigan) - File 10 of 11 CIS EIS Scoping Report
(Appendix L: Agency Scoping Comments from Federal agencies and Maine) - File 11 of 11 CIS EIS Scoping Report
(Appendix L: Agency Scoping Comments from Michigan, New York and Ohio)