Book Description

The U.S. Army will activate a new light infantry division consisting of about 10,500 military personnel. The purpose of this environmental impact statement is to discuss the potential environmental and socioeconomic effects that could occur if the division is stationed at one or a combination of the following Army forts: Benning, Campbell, Drum, Lewis, Ord, Richardson and Wainwright. Potential effects vary from fort to fort, but the issues of most general concern are noise and socioeconomic concerns such as availability and affordability of off-post housing and overcrowding of schools. The large increase in regional population that would occur at Fort Drum, New York (Watertown) and Fort Wainwright, Alaska (Fairbanks) would result in large short-term changes in regional economic patterns. Several other installation-specific issues are also discussed. (Author).