Environmental Assessment for Taxiway Whiskey Supplemental Projects at Joint Base Andrews-Naval Air Facility Washington, Prince George's County, Maryland.

摘要

Joint Base Andrews-Naval Air Facility Washington, Maryland (JBA) proposes to rebuild Taxiways Whiskey 1 (W-1), Charlie West, and Whiskey 4 (W-4); realign Taxiway W-1; and reconstruct the intersections of Taxiway Whiskey with Taxiway Whiskey 3 (W-3) and Taxiway Whiskey 5 (W-5). The project would bring Taxiway Whiskey and connecting taxiways (W-1, Charlie West, and W-4) into compliance with current Air Force and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) criteria for modified heavy load aircraft designed for Type A traffic. This EA has been prepared to report an evaluation of the proposed action and alternatives, including the No Action Alternative. Resource areas addressed in the EA are noise, air quality, safety and occupational health, earth resources, water resources (including wetlands), infrastructure/utilities, transportation, hazardous materials and wastes, biological resources, cultural resources, historic and archaeological resources, socioeconomics (including environmental justice and protection of children), land use and visual resources, and sustainability and greening. Based on the review of the EA, the Air Force has decided to proceed with rebuilding and realigning taxiways and performing ancillary tasks as described in the EA.