Download or read book Ballistic Missile Defense Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement written by Air force center for environmental excellence brooks afb tx and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) analyzes the potential environmental effects associated with research and development of a Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system capability by the Department of Defense (DoD). The BMD Program seeks to develop systems and capabilities to protect the United States and areas of vital interest to the United States against the accidental or unauthorized launch of ballistic missiles. The BMD Program includes TMD and NMD initiatives under the direction of the BMDO. The TMD segment includes transportable systems to defend expeditionary elements of the Armed Forces of the United States deployed abroad, and to defend its friends and allies against short- and medium-range missiles. The BMD PEIS focuses on the research, development, and testing of NMD elements. It covers the potential cumulative impacts from the entire BMD Program, including TMD, because the technologies, testing, and development have potentially similar environmental effects. Ongoing NMD activities are currently part of a Technology Readiness Program to facilitate development of an effective NMD system on short notice. These activities are described as the Preferred Action. Several other alternatives are proposed for carrying the NMD system into the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the DoD system acquisition process. They are described as the System Acquisition Alternatives in this PEIS. TMD research, development, and testing activities would continue independent of the decision reached upon review of this PEIS. Potential environmental impacts beyond development and testing activities for the Alternatives to the Preferred Action are discussed to provide DoD decision makers with information on potential environmental impacts related to the life-cycle of full-system acquisition. This PElS serves as the foundation from which futur.