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Show The Air Force has started field surveys in Pine Valley and Wah Wah Velley for the MX missile system. The purpose of these surveys is to test procedures for site Identification and to develop surveyed legal descriptions des-criptions for land withdrawal purposes if NevadaUtah is selected as a deployment area. Word was received Saturday Satur-day that the surveys on state lands will be delayed until details are worked out with the State of Utah. The field surveys are being be-ing conducted by Fugro National, Na-tional, Inc. They are under contract to the Ballistic Missile Mis-sile Office, Norton AFB, in California, in conjunction with the surveying task, environmental en-vironmental teams will assess as-sess proposed shelter sites. The teams will involve a number of technical disciplines, disci-plines, such as biology and archeology. Personnel will be drawn from Fugro, the BLM, the Ballistic Missile Office and the VJS. Army Crops of Engineers. The Air Force expects that about 30 people will be involved in this effort. As a result of these surveys, the Air Force will propose shelter sites in areas which minimize im -pact on the environmental resources and are compati-. compati-. ble with current use of land. The Air Force plans to complete these intiial sur-veys sur-veys in Utah before the end of 1980. BLM officials in Nevada and Utah participated participat-ed in developing the Air Force's surveying program. To obtain additional information infor-mation regarding the USAF efforts in Pine and Wah Wah : Valleys, contact the following: follow-ing: (Continued on Page 2) here's more about SITE SURVEY , Nevada-Utah Field Office Caliente BLM, Denise Pieratti, Caliente, NV 89008 or USAF Ballistic Missile Office, Of-fice, ATTN: Lt. Col. Neil Buttlmer, Norton AFB, CA 92409 Preserving the quality of the environment is a paramount para-mount Air Force concern. Specifically the MX is being designed to minimize adverse ad-verse effects on the environment. environ-ment. Water and other resources re-sources needed by the system sys-tem will be conserved in strict accordance with state laws. This will ensure the system will be able to coexist co-exist with wildlife, mining, ranching and recreation. Each of the 4,600 shelters will be fenced unobtrusively on a two and one half acre site. This area is about the same which is used for each of the 1,000 Minuteman silos now deployed in the central United States. For MX the total amount of fenced fen-ced land closed to the public will be about 25 square nautical nau-tical miles - a little less than 21,100 acres. |