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DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Ryan.

This document is a Section 106 Tribal Comment Letter concerning the Ground Based Strategic Defense (GBSD) Test Program. The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians provided comments following their review of the Section 106 investigation report and the Draft Environmental Assessment for the GBSD project. In response, refinements in the project design have greatly reduced the extent of ground disturbance planned at Launch Facility 04 (LF-04) and within the historic Native American village of Lospe...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Ryan.

This document is a Section 106 Tribal Consultation Letter between the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians (SYBCI) and Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) concerning the Ground Based Strategic Defense (GBSD) Program. VAFB is responding to the tribe’s concerns expressed in the letter dated March 18th, 2021. Responses within the letter correspond with the same order and numbering as the comments previously offered by the Tribe.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Beniamino Volta. Michael Connolly. Daniel Leonard. Daniel Leard.

This document is a report on the Archaeological Investigations in Support of the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Test Program. The purpose of this project is to modernize the United States’ land-based nuclear arsenal and eventually replace the nation’s current Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) system. A portion of development and testing of the new system, named Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD), would take place in California at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Blackwell. Christopher Ryan.

This document is an Archaeological Resources Supplemental Report on Phase II of the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) Test Program. The project involves Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) to take part in developing and testing a new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) system, which will involve utilizing and modifying existing ICBM structures on VSFB. VSFB determined that the GBSD Test Program will result in no adverse effects to archaeological and historic properties for Phase II.