Environmental Assessment - National Capital Planning Commission

Environmental Assessment
the National Capital Region that could potentially accommodate
NSMA: the Washington Navy Yard; NSF Anacostia; and Bellevue
Housing, just south of NSF Anacostia and Bolling AFB (see
Section 1.1.2).
2.2.1 Alternatives Considered but Dismissed
2.2.1.1 Relocating NSMA to the Washington Navy Yard
Early in the planning process, the Navy considered relocating
NSMA to the Washington Navy Yard. However, the Washington Navy
Yard could only accommodate NSMA’s requirement for
administrative space, because the Navy Yard has no adequate
existing warehousing space available. Nor does it have any room
to construct a new warehouse adequate to NSMA’s needs.
Therefore, any alternative that would relocate NSMA to the
Washington Navy Yard would require keeping the administrative
building and warehouse separate. Under Criterion 3, such an
alternative could be reasonable only if it presents a strong
advantage that could make up for the disadvantage of keeping the
agency’s administrative and warehousing functions physically
apart.
With respect to the Washington Navy Yard, only one factor could
be considered to constitute such a strong advantage: a small
group of NSMA employees is already present in Building 111. The
cost and inconvenience of moving these employees would be
avoided if the rest of the agency joined them. Therefore, the
Navy considered renovating Building 111 for use by NSMA.
However, independent planning considerations resulted in
Building 111’s being assigned to a different command. This
eliminated the possibility of NSMA’s moving to the building and
made it likely that the NSMA employees in Building 111 would
have to move to join the rest of the agency in its new building.
This eliminated the only strong advantage of relocating NSMA to
the Navy Yard. Even if the NSMA employees currently in Building
111 were able to stay in that building, there is no available
space at the Navy Yard that could adequately accommodate the
rest of agency. Therefore, alternatives that would relocate NSMA
to the Washington Navy Yard were eliminated from further
consideration. Such alternatives are not considered in the rest
of this EA.
Alternatives 2-4