July 4, 2020
Secretary of Defence Mark T. Esper
Department of Defense
Munyori weNavy Richard V. Spencer
Dhipatimendi reNavy
Nora Macariola-Ona
Naval Equipment engineering Command Pacific
258 Makalapa Giya, Suite zana
Pearl Harbour, Hawaii 96860-3134
Re: Mariana Islands Kudzidzisa uye Kuedza Kupedzisa Kwekuwedzera EIS / OEIS Ruzhinji Mhinduro
Vanodiwa Vanyori Esper naSpencer uye Ms. Macariola-Ona:
Isu tiri boka rakakura revadzidzi, vaongorori vemauto, vamiriri, uye vamwe vemauto masosi kubva pamatongerwo enyika vanyori vanotsigira nekutsigira kuongororwa uye kunetsekana kwakataurwa neUnguva Imwechete Wealth 670 (a nonpartisan Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands ( CNMI) nharaunda-yakavakirwa sangano) mukupindura kune US Navy's Mariana Islands Kudzidziswa uye Kuedza Kupedzisa Kwekuwedzera EIS / OEIS.
Isu tinogovana chedu chakafanana neicho Wealth 670 kunetsekana kwekuti Navy haina kuzadzisa zvido zveNational Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) maitiro. Isu tinobatana neChuma chedu chakafanana 670 mukurudzira:
1) "kuchengetedzwa kwepasi redu, makungwa nedenga kubva mukumwe kudzivirirwa" nechero ipi neipi zviitiko zveUS Navy, uye
2) kumiswa kwekudzidziswa kwese, zvinokanganisa nzvimbo [dzeMariana Islands]] pedyo nemahombekombe kubva pamoto mupenyu nemabhomba. ” Tinocherekedza kuti US Navy uye mauto eU.S. akawandisa ane hurefu, akanyorwa nhoroondo yekusvibisa mvura, ivhu, nemhepo mhiri kweMariana Islands nekukuvadza hutano hwevanhu venzvimbo iyi.1
Nhengo dze Overseas Base Realignment uye Kuvhara Coalition (OBRACC) dzakadzidza uye dzakanyora zvakadzama nezveUS mauto mabhesheni mhiri kwemakungwa uye nemhedzisiro yavo kunharaunda dzenharaunda nenzvimbo. Nhengo dzinoverengeka dzeOBRACC dzave nyanzvi kwemakumi emakore. Pamwe chete, takaburitsa zvakati wandei zvinyorwa uye mishumo, angangoita mabhuku masere, uye humwe mabhuku makuru pahwaro hwekutsvaga kwedu.
Dunhu rekumaodzanyemba Kubatsira uye Kuvhara Sangano
OBRACC inotsigira kuongororwa kweWakajairika Weupfumi 670 mukunyora zvinoverengeka zvinoshatisa, kushomeka kushomeka kweiyo Navy kuongororwa kwemhedzisiro inogona kuwedzera basa remauto muMariana. Isu tinonyanya kunetseka kuti:
1) Iyo yekupedzisira Yekuwedzera EIS / OEIS haigadziri zvakakwana hutano hunogona kuitika hwevanhu uye husiri-hwevanhu kukanganisa kwezvemamiriro ekunze kweNavy kudzidziswa uye zviitiko zvemuedzo muMariana Islands Training uye Testing Study Area (MITT). Kunyanya, isu tine hanya nezve hutano hwekuvhiringidzika kweNavy munitions uye zvimwe zvinosvibisa zveNavy pane vanhu vezvitsuwa zveMariana, vazhinji vavo vanovimba nemhuka dzegungwa dzinokohwa kubva mumvura iyi senzvimbo yekutanga yechikafu.
2) Yedu yakajairika Wealth 670 inonyora kutadza kwemaNairi kuita chaiyo, yakanyatsoongorora sainzi dambudziko rekusvibiswa kunokonzerwa neNavy zviitiko muMITT. Mauto ehondo nenzira yakafanana anoita seakafuratira zvidzidzo zvesainzi zviripo izvo zvinokanganisa mhedziso yemubato reNavy kuti zviitiko zvaro zvechiuto zvichauya hazvinei.
3) Mauto eChikepe anoreva nezve kukanganiswa kwezviitiko zveNavy pane zvekudya, kunyanya chikafu chemugungwa, icho chisiri mukufunda kwesainzi nenyaya yacho. Iyo isiri-huwandu, isiri-sampling-based dive scans inonzi inonzi ndiyo hwaro hweNavy mhedziso yekuti hapana hutano hwevanhu hunhu haupfuure muster sekuwana kwesainzi. Mauto ehondo haaratidzi kutora zvakadzama zvidzidzo zvesainzi naGary Denton nevamwe vake vanowana kusvibiswa kwakakomba kubva kumademba emarara madhiri uye kumwe kusvibiswa kwemauto.2. Sekutaura kwedu seChuma chedu chakafanana ne670, maNavy haashandisi zvakare ruzivo rwe ethnographic rwezvinhu zvekudya zvinoshandiswa nevanhu veMariana vanowedzera kure kupfuura pelagic hove dzemafaera.
4) Yedu yakafanana Upfumi 670 inonyora kutadza kweNavy kuti iongorore kuringana kwekusvibiswa kwekutanga muHondo Yenyika yechipiri. Zvidzidzo zvesainzi zvakaratidza kuenderera kwakakura kwekusadzika kwezvakatipoteredza kukuvara kubva Hondo Yenyika II. The Navy anotsigira kuti hapana akakosha matambudziko hutano pasina kuburitsa data pane ese bas bas yakasvibisa mazinga kana kuwedzera kutarisirwa kune ramangwana Navy kudzidziswa uye kuedza mabasa.
Mukuvhara, tinokurudzira zvakare maNavy nePentagon kuti vanyatsoteerera kune zvakataurwa neCommon Wealth 670, sekuda kweiyo NEPA maitiro, uye kurasa zviitiko zvese zvakarongwa kudzamara Navy yaratidza kuti zviitwa zvayo hazvizokonzerese zvakananga, zvisina kunanga. , kana kuwanda kwezvakatipoteredza kukuvara muMarianas Islands.
Nhengo dzedu dziripo kupindura mibvunzo iwe yaungave unayo. Ndokumbirawo ubate Dr. David Vine pavine@american.edu kana 202-885-2923.
pachokwadi,
Dunhu rekumaodzanyemba Kubatsira uye Kuvhara Sangano
Kubatana kwenhengo dzakanyorwa pazasi ndezvenzira dzekuzivisa chete.
Medea Bhenjamini, CoDirector, CODEPINK
Leah Bolger, CDR, US Navy (Rut.), Mutungamiri World BEYOND War
Cynthia Enloe, Muongorori wePurofesa, Clark University
VaJohn Feffer ndivo director weEuropean Policy In Focus
Joseph Gerson, Mutevedzeri weMutungamiri, International Peace Bureau
Kate Kizer, Mutungamiriri wePolisi, anokunda Pasina Hondo
Barry Klein, Mutungamiriri weNyika
John Lindsay-Poland, munyori we maEmaster muJungle: Iyo Yakavanzika Nhoroondo yeUS mukati
Panama (Duke University Press)
Catherine Lutz, Purofesa weAnthropology uye International Study, Brown University
Miriam Pemberton, Shamwaridzana Navo, Sangano Rezvidzidzo zvePolisi
Delbert Spurlock, Mauto eU.S. General Gweta 1981-1983; ASA M & A 1983-1989.
David Swanson, Executive Director, World BEYOND War
David Vine, Purofesa weAnthropology, American University
Allan Vogel, Kunze Kwemutemo Alliance
Lawrence B. Wilkerson, VaKori, US Mauto (Dzorera.) / Aimbova Mutungamiriri weVashandi kuna Secretary of State Colin
Powell / Anoshanya Purofesa weHurumende uye yePublic Policy, Koreji yaWilliam naMary
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