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Chapter 5 – Environmental Consequenceseffects of operations, maintenance, and training exercises, and to respond to any unanticipateddiscoveries.Regulatory and Administrative Mitigation 1: The Army would continue to inventory and evaluatecultural resources in compliance with Section 110 of the NHPA, and project planning would complywith Section 106 and its implementing regulations. The locations of eligible cultural resources orareas considered likely to contain eligible cultural resources would be designated as sensitive areas,and access to or use of these areas would be restricted and monitored. There would be regularmonitoring of known sites by cultural resource personnel after training activities to identify anyimpacts and adjust protection if needed. If any sites cannot be avoided, appropriate mitigationmeasures that may include data recovery would be implemented. Any construction or maintenancethat entails ground disturbance would also be monitored, and any discovery of undocumented culturalresources or human remains would be treated in accordance with installation guidelines and policies.5.5.5.2 Alaska5.5.5.2.1 Impacts from Cantonment ConstructionNo ImpactsThe existing brigades at FRA would remain in their current configuration at their current troop levels.Therefore, no additional cantonment construction projects would be implemented and no impacts tocultural resources would occur.5.5.5.2.2 Impacts from Range ConstructionNo ImpactsThe existing brigades would remain in their current configuration at their current troop levels. Inaddition, there are no plans for additional range construction. Consequently, there would be noimpacts to cultural resources.5.5.5.2.3 Impacts from Live-fire TrainingNo ImpactsExisting conditions would continue. Consequently, there would be no project-related increase infrequency or intensity of training, no use of new ranges, and no change in weapons or equipment. Allof the areas of live-fire training have been surveyed for cultural resources and protective measureshave been implemented for all known sites.5.5.5.2.4 Impacts from Maneuver TrainingSignificant Impacts Mitigable To Less Than SignificantImpact 1: Impacts to cultural resources. Existing conditions would continue, so impacts would resultfrom ongoing training activities. Ongoing training activities include continued off-road vehicle use.This would result in significant but mitigable impacts on cultural resources in the maneuver trainingareas caused by ground troop activities, off-road vehicle movement, and ground disturbance. Becausecurrent force training would continue, there would be no incremental increase in impacts on culturalresources. Mechanisms and procedures are in place to monitor the effects of operations, maintenance,and training exercises, and to respond to any unanticipated discoveries.February 2008 5-208 2/25th SBCT Final EIS