MCA submits BRAC EIS response
Janet M January 4th, 2008
Today the MCA’s BRAC Committee submitted its response to the Navy’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) pertaining to the BRAC consolidation move of Walter Reed Army Medical Center to the National Naval Medical Center.
Several factors, including those that follow, lead to serious questions about the reliability of the DEIS and undermine confidence in the process. Accurate and current data and analyses are vital for proper planning purposes.
The Final EIS must:
- Reflect more accurate and substantiated traffic projections;
- Reflect a greater sense of urgency for resolving traffic implications;
- Provide solid and innovative solutions for the very real traffic problems that lie ahead outside the NNMC fence so that the critical mission inside the NNMC fence can be accomplished.
Given the surrounding neighborhoods’ support (to date) for BRAC, it is imperative that Navy acknowledge its responsibility in this BRAC to dutifully mitigate the BRAC impact and insure the continued livability and integrity of the surrounding neighborhoods and Stone Ridge School as well as insuring viable access to the downtown Bethesda business district.
The full text of the document is available in PDF format on the Maplewood Listserv website. It was submitted to the Montgomery County BRAC coordinator, Phil Alperson, for inclusion in an advisory report by the BRAC Implementation Committee to County Executive Ike Leggett.
Leggett will submit his formal response to the Navy’s DEIS on January 28th.
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