Download or read book Draft Supplement to Final Environmental Statement on Continental United States (CONUS) Over-the-Horizon Backscatter (OTH-B) Radar System, Penobscot, Washington, Somerset Counties, Maine written by AIR FORCE SYSTEMS COMMAND WASHINGTON DC. and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This supplement amends the Final Environmental Impact Statement issued in January 1975. The action proposed in the 1975 EIS was to construct and operate an OTH-B radar system in Maine, initially covering a 60 degree sector, and later expanded to cover 180 degrees. The action proposed in this supplement is to locate the integrated operations, maintenance, and security facility at Bangor International Airport, a location not considered in the 1975 EIS. Alternatives are locating at Bucks Harbor the maintenance and security personnel who support the Washington County receiver site, but leaving the maintenance and security personnel for the operations center and the Somerset County transmitter site with the operations personnel at Bangor International Airport; and not deploying either the 60 degree or the 180 degree system. The scope of the supplement is limited mainly to identifying the environmental consequences of the operations center alternatives and examining the issue of biological effects of nonionizing radiation from the remote Somerset County transmitter on the basis of data available after the 1975 EIS was completed. Both biphysical and socioeconomic consequences of the operations center alternatives were found to be small. Further examination of the biological effects issue confirmed the conclusions of the 1975 EIS. No reliable evidence has been found to indicate that any hazard will result from either short-term or prolonged exposure of people to the power densities of the Somerset County OTH-B transmitters outside the site exclusion fences. (Author).