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Table of Contents
4.14.2 No Action Alternative (No Modernization) ......................................................... 4-87
4.14.3 Modernization ...................................................................................................... 4-87
4.15 Wildfires .............................................................................................................. 4-91
4.15.1 Impact Methodology ............................................................................................ 4-91
4.15.2 Factors Considered for Determining Significance of Impacts ............................. 4-92
4.15.3 No Action Alternative (No Modernization) ......................................................... 4-92
4.15.4 PTA Cantonment Area ......................................................................................... 4-93
4.15.5 PTA Range Area .................................................................................................. 4-93
4.16 Sustainability........................................................................................................ 4-96
4.16.1 Impact Methodology and Summary..................................................................... 4-96
4.16.2 No Action Alternative (No Modernization) ......................................................... 4-97
4.16.3 PTA Cantonment Area ......................................................................................... 4-97
4.16.4 General Range Area ............................................................................................. 4-98
4.16.5 No Action Alternative (No IPBA) ..................................................................... 4-100
4.17 Mitigation Summary .......................................................................................... 4-101
Chapter 5 Cumulative Impacts ................................................................................................ 4-1
5.0 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 5-1
5.1 Methodology for considering and analyzing cumulative effects ........................... 5-1
5.2 Past, Present, and Reasonably Foreseeable Future Projects .................................. 5-2
5.2.1 Project Descriptions ............................................................................................. 5-10
5.3 Cumulative Impacts and Summary Table ............................................................ 5-24
5.3.1 Land Use and Recreation ..................................................................................... 5-25
5.3.2 Airspace ............................................................................................................... 5-26
5.3.3 Visual Resources .................................................................................................. 5-27
5.3.4 Air Quality ........................................................................................................... 5-28
5.3.5 Noise .................................................................................................................... 5-32
5.3.6 Transportation and Traffic ................................................................................... 5-35
5.3.7 Water Resources .................................................................................................. 5-38
5.3.8 Geology and Soils ................................................................................................ 5-41
5.3.9 Biological Resources ........................................................................................... 5-44
5.3.10 Cultural Resources ............................................................................................... 5-46
5.3.11 Hazardous Materials and Hazardous Waste ........................................................ 5-49
5.3.12 Depleted Uranium ................................................................................................ 5-50
5.3.13 Socioeconomics and Environmental Justice ........................................................ 5-52
5.3.14 Public Services and Utilities ................................................................................ 5-53
5.3.15 Wildfires .............................................................................................................. 5-55
5.3.16 Sustainability........................................................................................................ 5-57
Chapter 6 Other Required Analyses ........................................................................................ 5-1
6.0 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 6-1
6.1 Significant Unavoidable Adverse Impacts............................................................. 6-1
Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement vii
Modernization of PTA and Construction and Operation of an IPBA