Notice of Availability
Navy Conventional Prompt Strike Weapon System Flight Tests
Draft Document of Environmental Protection
The U.S. Department of the Navy and U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command have prepared a Draft Document of Environmental Protection (DEP) for the proposed Navy Conventional Prompt Strike Weapon System Flight Tests program to meet requirements of the United States Army Kwajalein Atoll (USAKA) Environmental Standards (UES). The Draft DEP provides a description of proposed missile flight test activities at Kwajalein Atoll, the associated potential environmental effects, and procedures for monitoring, notification, and reporting. Testing would involve flight tests from sea-based launch locations, vehicle flight over the ocean, splashdown of boosters in the open ocean, and payload impact either in broad ocean areas or at U.S. Army test sites at Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Within the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the activity would be located at the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site (RTS) within the United States Army Kwajalein Atoll (USAKA). Flight test payloads would impact at target sites within the deep-water Kwajalein Missile Impact Scoring System (KMISS) range and on land at Illeginni Islet. Flight test support activities such as vessel traffic and human activity would occur at RTS as well as within travel routes between test sites and Kwajalein Harbor at Kwajalein Islet.
The Draft DEP is available on the Navy’s NEPA Projects website at https://www.nepa.navy.mil/CPSSea-Based and is also available at the following public libraries: Kwajalein Island’s Grace Sherwood Library and Roi-Namur Library.
The 30-day public comment period required by the UES begins March 26, 2025 and ends April 25, 2025. Comments may be submitted either online or by mail, postmarked no later than April 25, 2025 to:
Environmental Program Manager/SP2521
Strategic Systems Programs
1250 10th Street SE, Bldg. 200, Suite 3600
Washington Navy Yard, DC 20374-5127
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Comments must be submitted or postmarked by April 25, 2025. All comments submitted during the 30-day public comment period will be part of the public record and substantive comments will be addressed in the Final DEP.
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