F-22 Plus-Up Environmental Assessment - Joint Base Elmendorf ...

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Table 5.1-1. Past, Present, and Reasonably Foreseeable Military Projects (Page 2 of 2)
Action Document Description
Fort Richardson/
Elmendorf AFB
Joint Basing
Station and Train a
New Aviation Unit
in Alaska
Reassignment of F-
15C fighter aircraft
squadron
Resumption of
Year-Round Firing
Opportunities
Military Housing
Privatization, Joint
Base Elmendorf-
Richardson
JPARC
Cherry Hill Gravel
Site
BRAC 2005 Joint Basing
Road Map Study 2010
U.S. Army EIS 2010 (U.S.
Army 2010)
U.S. Army Fort
Richardson Final EIS in
process 2010
(U.S. Army 2010)
JBER EA 2011
ALCOM studies
underway 2011
Elmendorf AFB EA 2005
The Joint Basing Implementation Roadmap Study called for three pilot studies investigating more
efficient use of installations that are adjacent to one another but managed by different services (e.g.
Army/Air Force, Navy/Air Force). Elmendorf and Fort Richardson implemented the Joint Basing
Concept in 2010. Activities include combined organizations and shared community service facilities.
The proposed expansion of U.S. Army Alaska’s aviation assets and capabilities would support both
integrated training and deployment abroad and would continue the process of Army transformation
in Alaska. Aviation units would include various helicopter types and additional soldiers distributed
between JBER and Fort Wainwright. The aviation unit would enhance integrated training to achieve
proficiency in the execution of combined-arms, joint, and coalition operations under realistic training.
The last squadron of 27 F-15C aircraft was reassigned from JBER in 2010.
The Proposed Action would restore year-round live-fire training capabilities at Fort Richardson, AK,
in order to allow active units to achieve and maintain combat readiness, reduce deployment
hardships on Soldiers and their Families, and reduce annual expenditures associated with travel to
distant facilities to conduct training. The EIS evaluates No Action Alternative (use of Eagle River
Flats Impact Area under a winter only firing regimen), year-round use of Eagle River Flats Impact
Area (USARAK’s preferred alternative), and development of a new impact area on Fort Richardson.
The Air Force proposes to transfer responsibility for housing and support facilities to a private
developer. Over the ten-year initial development period, the private developer would renovate 272
units, demolish 584 units, and construct 582 units. As a result of these actions, JBER-Richardson
would have a family housing inventory of 1,240 units.
The Alaska Joint Command proposes a series of airspace and range actions to enhance individual unit
and Joint training in response to technological changes, lessons learned, and anticipated threats over
the next 20 years. These enhancements propose extending and establishing MOAs and Restricted
Airspace.
The Cherry Hill Borrow Site is located on Elmendorf AFB. Anticipated work at Cherry Hill is
expected from 2006 through 2010. The FONSI/FONPA was signed by the PACAF/CE on 1 March
2006.
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