Facilities Development Necessary to Support Potential Aircraft Carrier Homeporting Naval Station Mayport, Florida

Download or read book Facilities Development Necessary to Support Potential Aircraft Carrier Homeporting Naval Station Mayport, Florida written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of the Navy has prepared a Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) to analyze homeport facilities for a NIMITZ class aircraft carrier at Naval Station (NAVSTA) Mayport. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 requires that Navy prepare a plan for developing NAVSTA Mayport as a NIMITZ class carrier homeport. Under existing carrier force structure plans, conventional aircraft carriers will be replaced by nuclear-powered carriers (CVNs). This document evaluates the environmental impacts of CVN homeporting at NAVSTA Mayport in the year 2010.