APCC Obtains Public Comments Submitted to the National Guard on the Machine Gun Range
The Massachusetts Army National Guard has proposed to locate and construct a machine gun range within the Upper Cape Water Supply Reserve on the northern 15,000 acres of Joint Base Cape Cod. The reserve was established in 2002 to protect drinking water and wildlife habitat, and to allow military training that is compatible with those uses.
The machine gun range project would require 199 acres of land disturbance, including 170.5 acres of forest area to be clear cut to accommodate the range footprint, operations and control area facilities, roads, firebreaks and other aspects of the project, according to the Guard’s Environmental Assessment. The project plan also includes the creation of a Surface Danger Zone area on approximately 5,197 acres, or over one-third of the 15,000-acre Upper Cape Water Supply Reserve, where projectiles fired on the range would land.
APCC obtained, through a public records request, copies of all public comments submitted to the Guard on the machine gun range. APCC provides these comments on this website for the purpose of ensuring a full disclosure of the general public’s response to the project.
Making these public comments available is part of APCC’s continuing effort to make certain that the environmental issues associated with the project are understood, fully examined and appropriately addressed.
APCC has undertaken a detailed assessment of the draft Environmental Assessment (EA) and finds it severely lacking and deficient. The full text of APCC’s comments can be found HERE.
Public Comments
*all links PDF, 4-32 MB each.
#1-25 MGR comments
#26-52 MGR comments
#53-75 MGR comment
#76-102 MGR comments
#103-130 MGR comments
#131-157 MGR comments
#158-186 MGR comments
#187-210 MGR comments
#211-235 MGR comments
#236-260 MGR comments
#261-286 MGR comments
#287-307 MGR comments
#308-328 MGR comments
#329-351 MGR comments
#352-367 MGR comments
