Proposed Action

The Proposed Action is to conduct an increased number of land-based, multi-domain training and testing activities within the Study Area. These activities would be conducted by the Navy, Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Missile Defense Agency, with occasional foreign military participation under U.S. sponsorship and oversight. The Proposed Action also includes standard operating procedures and best management practices to avoid or minimize potential impacts on environmental and cultural resources. 

The purpose of the Proposed Action is to provide the U.S. military services and the Missile Defense Agency with land-based training and testing activities at a level that supports military readiness into the reasonably foreseeable future. The Proposed Action is needed to ensure U.S. military services are able to organize, train, and equip service members and personnel to meet their respective national defense missions.

No new types of training or testing activities are proposed at PMRF or Ka‘ula Island; the activities proposed are currently being or have previously been conducted at these locations and are similar to those analyzed in previous environmental documents. The PMRF Land-Based Training and Testing EA is solely focused on land-based activities at PMRF and Ka‘ula Island, and does not cover information related to in-water training and testing activities. Training and testing activities conducted at sea and the in-water effects of land-based activities (e.g., land-based missile launch) were previously analyzed in the 2018 Hawaii-Southern California Training and Testing Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)/Overseas EIS.