Environmental Assessment for Cantonment Areas at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.

摘要

This Environmental Assessment (EA) analyzes potential environmental impacts of anticipated future development within the five major cantonment areas on Eglin Air Force Base (AFB), Florida. The Eglin military complex is a U.S. Air Force-controlled, multiservice Department of Defense (DoD) Major Range and Test Facility and training area. Its primary function is to support research and development of conventional weapons and electronic systems, as well as to support individual and joint training of operational units. Eglin AFB is located in the Florida Panhandle in portions of Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, and Gulf Counties (Figure 1-1). The base is a national asset of the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) headquartered at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, and the Air Force Test Center (AFTC) headquartered at Edwards AFB, California. Eglin AFB is facing considerable challenges in accommodating future missions and developments. Some of these challenges are fiscal constraints, ongoing demands of maintaining aging infrastructure, changing missions, urban sprawl, encroachment, congested airspace, global climate change, and limited resources. As the host wing for Eglin AFB, the 96th Test Wing (96 TW) is the test and evaluation center for air-delivered weapons, navigation and guidance systems, Command and Control systems, and Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) systems. The 96 TW performs development test and evaluation across the complete system life cycle for a wide variety of customers, including Air Force Systems Program Offices, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), logistics and product centers, Major Commands (MAJCOM), other DoD services and U.S. government agencies, foreign military sales, and private industry.