SEIS receives 150 comments

by Sabrina Salas Matanane

Guam - Last Friday was the deadline to submit comments on the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement regarding the proposed Marines' live fire training range. And according to Joint Guam Program Office forward Director Capt. Daniel Cuff, nearly 150 comments were submitted through e-mail and from the scoping meetings.

"And they vary on different subjects from environmental concerns, we had input regarding the racetrack and input from some of the federal agencies regarding the water supply and threatened endangered species," he reported. "The process continues as we still try to identify land owners of the affected areas, we should start seeing survey teams arrive on the island. Some of the survey teams may actually have people from Guam on them and start looking at the land itself in terms of contour of the lands, the environmental issues, any cultural issues and ancestral issues we may find."

NAVFAC and JGPO analysts will review and categorize the comments, however the count may increase as some have yet to arrive through mail. As we reported, the military is looking at the alternative to construct the complex on land along the Back Road to Andersen and in several different land areas at Naval Magazine.