Community Correspondence - Individual letter from Mr /Mrs Fred Vltsch regarding the pproposed closing of the Reno Air Guard Base, Nevada

Community Correspondence - Letter from Donald and Judith Lewis regarding 1452nd Airlift Wing based in Reno Nevado

COMMUNITY INPUT FOR HAWTHORNE ARMY DEPOT, NV dtd July 11, 2005, Briefing

Community Input - Community Input from Hawthorne Army Depot, Nevada submitted to the BRAC Commission. Includes Short briefing, long briefing, BRAC fact sheet, Recommendation, Results, questions and concerns and any other general information.

Community Input - Hawthorne Army Depot - NV Materials and Data on the Installation

The purpose for agency action is to preclude surface entry and the location of new mining claims, subject to valid existing rights, within and surrounding the Caliente rail corridor as described in the Yucca Mountain FEIS (DOE 2002). This protective measure is needed to enhance the safe, efficient, and uninterrupted evaluation of land areas for potential rail alignments within the Caliente rail corridor. The evaluation will assist the DOE in determining, through the Rail Alignment environmental impact statement (EIS) process, whether to construct a branch rail line, and to provide support to the BLM in deciding whether or not to reserve a ROW for the rail line under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA). The BLM participated as a cooperating agency in preparing this EA because it is the responsible land manager and BLM staff could contribute resource specific expertise.

The unsaturated zone (UZ) in Miocene-age welded tuffs at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, is under consideration as a potential site for the construction of a high-level radioactive waste repository. Secondary calcite and silica minerals deposited on fractures and in cavities in the UZ tuffs are texturally, isotopically, and geochemically consistent with UZ deposition from meteoric water infiltrating at the surface and percolating through the UZ along fractures. Nonetheless, two-phase fluid inclusions with small and consistent vapor to liquid (V:L) ratios that yield consistent temperatures within samples and which range from about 35 to about 80 C between samples have led some to attribute these deposits to formation from upwelling hydrothermal waters. Geochronologic studies have shown that calcite and silica minerals began forming at least 10 Ma and continued to form into the Holocene. If their deposition were really from upwelling water flooding the UZ, it would draw into question the suitability of the site as a waste repository.

Executive Correspondence dtd 7/22/2005 to Colleen Turner from Colonel Jonathan Proehl, commander of the 152nd Fighter Wing, enclosing material for the BRAC Commission.

Executive Correspondence - Senator Reid sent a thank you not to the Chairman.

Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 06/17/05 to Chairman Principi form NV State Senator Dina Titus requesting that the Commission visit Hawthorne Army Depot and reject DoD’s recommendation to close it.

Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 06/20/05 to BRAC Commission from the Board of Mineral County Commissioners, Hawthorne, NV expressing concern at the inaccuracies in the DoD BRAC recommendations with regard to Hawthorne Army Depot and requesting a BRAC Commission site visit.

Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 06/20/05 to the Commission from Marty Scheuerman, Fire Chief of the City of Reno, NV expressing concern at the proposed relocation of the NV ANG’s C-130 aircraft to another state and the harm this action would cause to NV’s ability to move emergency equipment quickly and efficiently.

Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 07/11/05 to Commissioner Coyle from NV Attorney General Brian Sandoval expressing his support for the retention of Hawthorne Army Depot.

Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 07/15/2005 to all Commissioners from Cheri Emm-Smith, District Attorney Mineral County Hawthorne, Nevada expressing her support to keep Hawthorne Army Depot open.

Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 07/29/2005 to Chairman Principi from Senator John Ensign, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support, highlighting section 2902 and 2903 of the Defense BRAC act of 1990 and requesting that the Chairman allow members of Senator Ensign’s staff to meet with appropriate representatives of the BRAC Commission.

Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 08/24/05 to Chairman Principi from Bonnie Weber, Chairman of the Washoe County NV County Commission, providing in support of maintaining the current mission of the NV ANG at Reno-Tahoe International Airport.

Executive Correspondence - Letter from Congressman Jim Gibbons, Nevada, asking for consideration of the facts that will be presented to the Commission regarding the realignment of the 152AW, Reno and closure of Hawthorne Army Depot

Executive Correspondence – Letter dated 07/20/2005 to George Delgado from Johnny Summers Lt Colonel U.S. Army enclosing a briefing on Update for the Global Demil Symposium presented on May 10, 2005

Letter from the Government Affairs Committee relating that the decision to realign Hawthorn Army Depot was made hastily and without the application of objective criteria.

Executive Correspondence - Letter from Senator Dina Titus, State of Nevada, Senate requesting that the Commission visit and then reconsider the recommendation to close Hawthorne Army Depot w/ attachments Bureau of Economic Analysis MSA Map, Mineral County Data, Lassen and Churchill Counties (Susanville and Fallon Micropolitan Statistical Areas) Data and Map of Nevada with Driving distances.

Executive Correspondence - Thank you note sent to Commission staffers thanking them for visiting Nevada

Letter To Commissioner Coyle From Lorraine T. Hunt, Lieutenant Governor

DISREGARD RESTRICTION HEADER AND FOOTER - Hawthorne AD Installation Familiarization Briefing

Department of Defense Clearinghouse Response: DoD Clearinghouse reply to a letter from the BRAC Commission regarding miscellaneous questions about Hawthorne Army Depot.