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Department of the Army Record of Decision for the Proposed Heavy Off-Road Mounted Maneuver Training Area at Fort Benning, Georgia Department of the Army, Department of Defense.
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The Department of the Army Army announces the availability of its Record of Decision ROD for the proposed Heavy Off-Road Mounted Maneuver Training Area HOMMTA at Fort Benning, Georgia. In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act NEPA, the ROD identifies the Armys Selected Alternative and basis for its selection, the Environmentally Preferred Alternative, and the mitigation measures the Army commits to implement with the Selected Alternative. The ROD is based on the results of the Armys Final Environmental Impact Statement EIS
that analyzed the potential environmental and socioeconomic impacts associated with constructing, operating, and maintaining a HOMMTA
of at least 2,400 contiguous acres at Fort Benning to support off-road mounted maneuver Proposed Action.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Please contact Mr. John Brown, Fort Benning Environmental Management Division, at john.e.brown12.civ@
mail.mil or 706 5457549 between 9
a.m. and 4 p.m. ET. Fort Benning has also established a web page that contains information updates and background on the HOMMTA Final EIS
and ROD, including the materials identified in this NOA, at https
www.benning.army.mil/Garrison/DPW/
EMD/HOMMTA/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Proposed Action will support the Maneuver Center of Excellence MCoE
in its mission to train maneuver soldiers and leaders of the Army and would increase the total amount of heavy offroad maneuver training area on Fort Benning, enabling the Army to conduct realistic training in accordance with current Army training requirements.
The Proposed Action will provide a training area to meet existing training needs; it will not result in additional soldiers, traffic, or any training off of the Installation. Training land development will occur over a 2- to 3-year period;
development will primarily include vegetation removal and the construction of tank trails, culverted water crossings, and road upgrades, as well as burying existing overhead utilities. As feasible, buffers will be used to protect environmentally sensitive resources such as streams, wetlands, cemeteries, and archaeological sites.
Fort Benning serves a critical role in supporting the Armys overarching mission. Fort Bennings institutional training provides Army leaders with the opportunity to respond to a wide variety of situations that they can expect to encounter on the modern battlefield.
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Fort Benning must be able to train and develop highly skilled and cohesive units capable of conducting operations across the full spectrum of potential conflicts. Inherent in and vital to training Infantry and Armor soldiers and leaders properly is the requirement to provide sufficient heavy off-road mounted maneuver training area.
Currently, the only training area at Fort Benning suitable for heavy off-road mounted maneuver training is the Good Hope Maneuver Training Area GHMTA, which contains various environmental constraints that cannot support the maneuver training requirements of the MCoE. As such, Fort Benning proposed to construct a new HOMMTA with sufficient contiguous area to enable all units and courses to complete required cross-domain movement and maneuver training.
The Final EIS, published on February 26, 2021 and supported by other studies, analyses, and permit applications to meet Federal requirements e.g., the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act, analyzed the potential environmental and socioeconomic impacts associated with the Proposed Action, including direct, indirect, and cumulative effects.
The Final EIS responded to comments received on the Draft EIS. The Final EIS
also identified mitigation measures that the Army may implement to reduce potential adverse impacts.
The Army studied three reasonable Action Alternatives i.e., three distinct locations on Fort Benning where a HOMMTA could be constructed that would meet the purpose of and need for the Proposed Action:
Alternative 1 Preferred Alternative:
Northern Mounted Maneuver Training Area Alternative: This alternative includes approximately 4,724 acres and is located adjacent to and east of the current Northern Maneuver Training Area and west of and near Fort Bennings Digital Multi-Purpose Range Complex DMPRC.
Of the Action Alternatives, Alternative 1 would provide the most preferable size and configuration to enable high-quality heavy off-road mounted maneuver training.
Accordingly, the Army identified Alternative 1 as the Preferred Alternative to implement the Proposed Action in the Draft and Final EIS.
Alternative 2: Red Diamond Alternative: This alternative includes approximately 3,744 acres and is located south of the Southern Maneuver Training Area SMTA near the Installations southern boundary.
Alternative 3: Eastern Boundary Alternative: This alternative includes
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