(MRAP) Vehicle Program - U.S. Army Environmental Center

Army MRAP Vehicle Program Programmatic Environmental Assessment December 2010
1972 established that Federal agencies should comply with Federal, State, interstate,
and local requirements requiring control and abatement of environmental noise to the
same extent as private entities.
The vehicles are required to meet the requirements of the CFR Title 49 Transportation
Part 325, Compliance with Interstate Motor Carrier Noise Emission Standards. Appendix
G contains a listing of exterior noise levels collected during testing of MRAP vehicles.
The MRAP’s noise levels are comparable to the noise levels of the other military vehicle
systems.
Per AR 200‐1, the Army’s Environmental Noise Management Program (ENMP)
incorporates and replaces the Installation Compatible Use Zone Program (ICUZ). The
goals of the Army’s ENMP are to: (1) control environmental noise to protect the health
and welfare of people, on‐ and off‐ post/Civil Works Facilities (CWF), impacted by all
Army‐produced noise, including on‐ and off‐post/CWF noise sources; and (2) reduce
community annoyance from environmental noise to the extent feasible, consistent with
Army training and materiel testing activities.
Army MRAP vehicles will be fielded to existing testing, training, and fielding sites which
already house ground weapon systems including some or all of the following: Bradley
Fighting Vehicles, Stryker Vehicles, Heavy Tactical Trucks, Medium Tactical Trucks, and
Light Tactical Trucks. The noise related impacts from the MRAP are anticipated to be
similar to these existing vehicles which have not shown a significant impact to the
environment or the surrounding areas. The testing, training and fielding activities likely
occur, or have occurred, in already developed areas and away from residential
neighborhood. This reduces community annoyance and protects the welfare of the
community. As a result, MRAP vehicles are expected to have a negligible impact on the
surrounding areas’ noise levels. Therefore, no direct, indirect or cumulative impacts to
noise levels are anticipated or have been reported for Army MRAP life‐cycle activities.
Each training, testing and fielding facility is required to comply with the environmental
impact analyses requirements of NEPA. Thus, personnel at Army installations are
responsible to determine how MRAP fielding activities will impact their installation’s
noise levels, if different than described above. A site‐specific NEPA analysis and
documentation may be required to address MRAP activities that are determined to
significantly increase noise generation or complaints. This could include encroachment
by surrounding population areas where public aggravation would be an increased risk.
JPO MRAP will provide any required and requested system information to the
installation personnel in support of document development.
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