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Navy Announces Finding of No Significant Impact/Finding of No Significant Harm for the Environmental Assessment/Overseas Environmental Assessment for Navy Conventional Prompt Strike Weapon System Flight Tests

The Navy has completed the Environmental Assessment/Overseas Environmental Assessment (EA/OEA) for the Navy Conventional Prompt Strike Weapon System Flight Tests and has determined that implementation of the Proposed Action will not significantly impact the quality of the human and natural environment and will not significantly harm the environment of the global commons (high seas). Therefore, the preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement and Overseas Environmental Impact Statement will not be required. The Navy has issued a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI)/Finding of No Significant Harm (FONSH). The EA/OEA and the FONSI/FONSH are on file and interested parties may obtain copies by downloading the documents from the Final EA Documents tab.

The Proposed Action is to perform Navy CPS weapon system flight tests in a sea-based environment. The Proposed Action will consist of up to eight flight test launches at up to eight different sea-based launch locations per year, conducted over a 10-year period beginning in fiscal year 2025. The proposed flight tests would be conducted within the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Each flight test would involve pre-test preparations and operations, at-sea vehicle launch, vehicle flight over a broad ocean area (BOA), booster splashdown in the BOA, payload impact at either an ocean or land target site, and post-test operations.

The environmental resource areas analyzed in the EA/OEA included: air quality, cultural resources, biological resources, geology and soils, water resources, hazardous materials and wastes management, environmental justice, and health and safety. Because potential impacts were considered to be negligible or nonexistent, the following resource areas were not evaluated in detail in the EA/OEA: airspace management, noise, land use, infrastructure and utilities, socioeconomics, transportation, visual resources, and coastal zone management.

For additional information regarding the EA/OEA and media queries, please contact the Conventional Prompt Strike Public Affairs Officer at 202-451-4412, or email to: amy.smith@ssp.navy.mil