The U.S. Navy is inviting the public to review and comment on a draft environmental assessment evaluating the potential effects of constructing and operating new missile magazines at Naval Magazine …
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Naval Magazine Indian Island is indicated with a red circle in a draft environmental assessment for proposed new missile magazines at Naval Magazine Indian Island. Map from U.S. Department of the Navy
The U.S. Navy is inviting the public to review and comment on a draft environmental assessment evaluating the potential effects of constructing and operating new missile magazines at Naval Magazine Indian Island starting in 2018 and concluding in 2020.
The draft was released by the U.S. Navy on Jan. 17 with a press release.
“NAVMag Indian Island is the West Coast ammunition ordnance storage center supporting the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet,” according to the draft environmental assessment. “It’s primary mission is to load, offload, and provide storage and logistics management for ordnance used on Navy vessels.”
The Navy is proposing new weapons storage facilities at Indian Island to safely store modern ordnance for U.S. Pacific Fleet operations, because the existing magazines are not large enough to accommodate modern ordnance, and there aren’t enough magazines to support Pacific Fleet operations, according to a press release from the Navy.
The draft environmental assessment, available online at go.usa.gov/tAr4, states that the available ordnance storage facilities on Indian Island are “predominantly World War II era igloo style magazines that do not have the capacity or design to support modern ordnance.”
The Navy is accepting written comments through Feb. 12. All written comments must be received by Feb. 12 to be considered in the Navy’s decision-making process, as it prepares its final assessment, according to the release.
Written comments may be emailed to NWNEPA@navy.mil or mailed to: Naval Facilities Engineering Command Northwest, 1101 Tautog Circle, Room 203, Silverdale, WA 98315,
Attn: NEPA Project Manager (Missile Magazines at NAVMAG Indian Island).
The Navy’s preferred alternative is to build five new magazines specifically engineered for missile storage, plus approximately 3,500 linear feet of new road and a pre-engineered metal building. The building would be used to store inert materials and provide a two-stall charging station for two forklifts.
Cost information of the project was not included in the the press release, and a spokesperson could not be reached for further comment.
