PSNS Dry Dock draft plans expected in 2025
September 4, 2024
KEDA recently hosted the second annual Kitsap Industrial Readiness Summit featuring Navy leadership who presented updates on the status of work related to the U.S. Navy’s Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program (SIOP) at Naval Base Kitsap Installations.
Capt. John Hale, Naval Base Kitsap commanding officer, said that the Navy plans to release the draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the public to review and comment in early 2025. The updated estimation represented about one more year of waiting since the Navy said in the first year of the industrial summit last August that the draft would be released in early or mid-winter 2024.
Dina Ginn, Environmental Director at NAVFAC Northwest commented on the scope and complexity of the EIS saying “you move one project a little here and there, then you have to reanalyze, so the timeframe is somewhat subjective because we are required to do our due diligence, and if we have a new piece of information, then we're going to go and do that analysis.”
The draft will include the Navy's suggested location to build the new multi-mission dry dock at PSNS. So far, that location hasn't been determined, the Navy said. "There are lots of decisions to be made about where, and how, and which part of the shipyard eventually turns into that support for that dry dock. That's a question that's actively being worked right now, actively being worked with decisions to be made by the highest level Navy leadership," Hale said.
Click here to read the Kitsap Sun story for more details and A Kitsap-related SIOP Overview and Timeline
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