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Executive Summary

Introduction

The Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center (NSAWC) at Naval Air Station (NAS) Fallon, Nevada, proposes to implement changes at the Fallon Range Training Complex (FRTC) to meet Chief of Naval Operations-mandated training requirements resulting from the real world threat environment. The training requirements have undergone independent validation by the Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA), performed under contract to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) (IDA 1999). The proposed changes would allow the Navy to update and consolidate Navy training on public and Navy-administered lands and to update existing airspace overlying these lands. Changes include developing new fixed and mobile electronic warfare (EW) sites, developing new tracking instrumentation subsystem (TIS) sites, developing additional targets at B-17 and B-19, laying fiber optic cable to B-16 and B-19, utilizing Navy-administered lands in Dixie Valley for close air support training, performing Hellfire missile and high altitude weapons delivery training at B-17 and B-20, and implementing changes to special use airspace. This environmental impact statement (EIS), which has been prepared pursuant to and in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations on implementing NEPA (40 CFR 1500-1508), Navy guidelines (OPNAVINST 5090.1B), and BLM guidelines (BLM Handbook H-1790-1), evaluates the potential environmental and socioeconomic effects of implementing these changes.
Because proposed actions would occur on lands administered by both the Navy and the BLM Carson City and Battle Mountain Field Offices, this EIS has been prepared by the Navy and the BLM as joint lead agencies. Several federal, state, and local agencies with special expertise or administrative responsibilities pertaining to the proposed geographical areas involved have agreed to serve as cooperating agencies, including the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the US Forest Service (USFS), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), the Yomba Shoshone Tribe, the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe, the Walker River Paiute Tribe, the Nevada Division of Wildlife (NDOW), Eureka, Lander, and Churchill County Commissions, and Kingston Town Board.
Location of NAS Fallon and the FRTC
NAS Fallon is in the Lahontan Valley of Churchill County in west-central Nevada, approximately 70 miles east of Reno and six miles southeast of the city of Fallon. NAS Fallon administers approximately 7,872 acres of withdrawn and acquired land associated with the air station and 234,124 acres of land associated with the FRTC. The FRTC includes four geographically separate training ranges (B-16, B-17, B-19, B-20), three Range Air Surveillance System (RASS) sites, a tracking system (tactical aircrew combat training system [TACTS]), a threat simulation system (EW area), and special use airspace. The FRTC airspace overlies portions of Washoe, Lyon, Churchill, Pershing, Mineral, Nye, Lander, and Eureka counties. Most of the lands under the FRTC airspace are public lands administered by the BLM.
Summary of Alternatives Including the Proposed Action The proposed action evaluated in the EIS is the implementation of actions to meet tactical and strategic training mission requirements. These training mission requirements result from the fact that current threat scenarios are geared more toward containing short-fused regional conflicts against undefined enemies with unconventional weapons and sophisticated air defense systems than toward large-scale operations. NAS Fallon and the FRTC were originally configured to train against the threat presented by only a limited number of superpowers. With the breakup of the Soviet Union and the availability of modern military equipment for purchase by any funded entity, more countries now have sophisticated military capabilities. As conflicts become smaller and more compact, the US military must train for such military operations as surgical strikes and no-fly zone enforcement. In addition to training ranges for ordnance training, these operations require small land-based training sites spread out over a larger area to provide flexibility in training for mobile threats. These operations also require higher ordnance delivery training altitudes.

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