LET-639: Section 106 Continued Tribal Comment Letter GBSD Test Program

Summary

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 (CA-SBA-512) and at LF-26 and within prehistoric archaeological site CA-SBA-760/-761/-1748. Additionally, trenching for the proposed underground communications line through CA-SBA-990 has been re-routed to avoid disturbance to that site. Despite these refinements, the proposed undertaking still would result in adverse effects to CA-SBA-512 due to security fencing improvements and trenching associated with underground communications lines.

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• Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) - Tribal Correspondence

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Contact(s): Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB)

Record Identifiers

Project ID(s): 2019-GBSD

VAFB Number(s): LET-639

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