{"id":211675,"date":"2015-10-02T13:33:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T03:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=211675"},"modified":"2015-10-02T13:33:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T03:33:41","slug":"breaking-news-dod-concedes-to-public-concerns-navy-will-conduct-supplemental-eis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/breaking-news-dod-concedes-to-public-concerns-navy-will-conduct-supplemental-eis\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: DoD concedes to public concerns; Navy will conduct supplemental EIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Marine Corp Forces Pacific conceded today that the potential impacts of their live-fire training plans to Tinian groundwater and to coral on Tinian and Pagan will need further analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Whelden, MarForPac executive director, disclosed the news in an email to Saipan Tribune today.<\/p>\n<p>Whelden was pressed for his thoughts on the CNMI&#8217;s request that the Department of Navy furnish a second draft environmental impact statement for the live-fire project in the CNMI.<\/p>\n<p>Whelden said this &#8220;supplemental&#8221; environmental impact statement will be completed in the spring of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a result of the information we&#8217;ve received to date, we&#8217;ve identified a need to conduct additional analysis of potential impacts to the ground water aquifer on Tinian; and coral on Tinian and Pagan, including associated mitigation,&#8221; Whelden said in the email.<\/p>\n<p>More details to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marine Corp Forces Pacific conceded today that the potential impacts of their live-fire training&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1355],"tags":[26,3543,1503,38],"class_list":["post-211675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-cnmi","tag-craig-whelden","tag-eis","tag-saipan-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}