Notice2021-13464
Notice of Availability for Spaceport Camden Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), Camden County, GA
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Published
June 24, 2021
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentFederal Aviation Administration
Abstract
In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA), Council on Environmental Quality NEPA implementing regulations, and FAA Order 1050.1F, Environmental Impacts: Policies and Procedures, the FAA is announcing the availability of the Spaceport Camden Final EIS.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 119 (Thursday, June 24, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33468-33469]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-13464]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Notice of Availability for Spaceport Camden Final Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS), Camden County, GA
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, as amended (NEPA), Council on Environmental Quality NEPA
implementing regulations, and FAA Order 1050.1F, Environmental Impacts:
Policies and Procedures, the FAA is announcing the availability of the
Spaceport Camden Final EIS.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stacey Zee, Environmental Protection
Specialist, Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Avenue
SW, Suite 325, Washington, DC 20591; phone (202) 267-9305; email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e6b5928785839fc8bc8383a6808787c8818990"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8ad9feebe9eff3a4d0efefcaecebeba4ede5fc">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FAA is the lead agency. The National
Aeronautics and Space Administration and National Park Service are
cooperating agencies for the Spaceport Camden Final EIS due to their
special expertise and jurisdictions.
The FAA is evaluating the Camden County Board of Commissioners'
proposal to operate a commercial space launch site called Spaceport
Camden, on the Atlantic seaboard in Camden County, Georgia. Issuing a
Launch Site Operator License is considered a major Federal action
subject to environmental review under NEPA. Under the Proposed Action,
the FAA would issue a Launch Site Operator License to the Camden County
Board of Commissioners. The license would authorize the Camden County
Board of Commissioners to offer Spaceport Camden as a launch site to
vehicle operators to conduct launches of liquid-fueled, small, orbital
vertical launch vehicles at Spaceport Camden.
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The Final EIS evaluated the potential environmental impacts of the
Proposed Action and the No Action Alternative. Under the No Action
Alternative, the FAA would not issue a Launch Site Operator License to
the Camden County Board of Commissioners.
The FAA published a Draft EIS for public review and comment on
March 16, 2018. The FAA held a public hearing on Wednesday, April 11,
and another on Thursday, April 12, 2018 at Camden County Public Service
Authority Recreation Center Community Room, 1050 Wildcat Drive,
Kingsland, GA 31548. The FAA received over 15,500 public comments on
the Draft EIS (see Appendix A of the Final EIS). All comments received
during the comment period were considered in the preparation of the
Final EIS.
The Final EIS addresses modifications to the Proposed Action since
the release of the 2018 Draft EIS and includes corresponding updates
across all environmental resource areas. In December 2019, Camden
County notified the FAA that it intended to submit an amended
application for a Launch Site Operator License that would limit
proposed launch operations to small launch vehicles, as opposed to the
medium-large launch vehicles included in its original application and
analyzed by the FAA in the Draft EIS. The County submitted an amended
application on January 15, 2020. The amended application included data
and analyses specific to launches of small launch vehicles. The amended
application omitted booster flybacks, which are not a capability of
small launch vehicles, and reduced the range of potential trajectories
identified in the original application to a single 100 degree
trajectory. The FAA has updated the EIS analyses to focus only on the
small launch capability and parameters described in Camden County's
amended application.
The FAA has posted the Final EIS on the FAA Office of Commercial
Space Transportation website: <a href="https://www.faa.gov/space/environmental/nepa_docs/camden_eis/">https://www.faa.gov/space/environmental/nepa_docs/camden_eis/</a>. In addition, links to the Final EIS were sent to
persons and agencies on the distribution list (see Chapter 9 of the
Final EIS). Printed copies of the Final EIS are available for review at
the following locations:
<bullet> Camden County Public Library, 1410 Georgia Highway 40,
Kingsland, GA 31548
<bullet> St. Marys Public Library, 100 Herb Bauer Drive, St. Marys, GA
31558
<bullet> Brunswick-Glynn County Library, 208 Gloucester Street,
Brunswick, GA 31520
<bullet> St. Simons Island Public Library, 530A Beachview Drive, St.
Simons Island, GA 31522
Issued in Washington, DC.
Daniel P. Murray,
Executive Director, Office of Operational Safety.
[FR Doc. 2021-13464 Filed 6-23-21; 8:45 am]
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