Angels Dont Play This HAARP-Advances In Tesla Technology(2004)
Environmental Impact
* Analysis Process
I Final Environmental Impact Statement
*I Volume I
Proposed
High Frequency Active Auroral
II Research Program
II July 1 993
I
This document has'been approved
Lead Agency: t, public release and sae. its Cooperating Agency: Idistributiou is unlim•ited.
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
E Air Force Materiel Command Office of Naval Research
Phillips Laboratory 9 3 8 3 23 9 I
4w
Form Ap:proved
REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE OMB No o,704-0188
00ý S~". ze5 rerý W'-"~- C, ~ ~ 0-~
1. AGENCY USE ONLY (Leave blank) 2" REPORT DATE 1. REPORT TYPE AND DATES COVERED
4. TILE AND SUBTITLE 5 FUNDING NUMBERS
6. AUTHOR(S)
7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION
U s qFf
REPORT NUMBER
9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 10. SPONSORING tMONITORING
AGENCY REPORT NUMBER
11. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES
12a. DISTRIBUTION, AVAILABILITY STATEMENT 12b. DISTRIBUTION CODE
13. ABSTRACT (Maximum 200 words)
14. SUBJECT TERMS 15. NUMBER OF PAGES
16. PRICE CODE
17. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION 18 SECURITY CLASSIFICATION 19. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION 20. LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT
CF REPORT OF THIS PAGE OF ABSTRACT
LM'CSL$,
I
I COVER SHEET
(a) Lead Agency: U.S. Air Force. 3 Cooperating Agency: U.S. Navy.
(b) Proposed Action: Construction and operation of the High-frequency Active Auroral Research
I Program (HAARP) facility in Alaska.
(c) Further information may be obtained by contacting: 3 Mr. John Heckscher
PL/GPIA
Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-5000 1 (617)377-5121
(d) Designation: Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS).
(e) Abstract: This FEIS consists of two volumes. Volume I represents a corrected version of the
Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) and Volume II presents the results of public 1 comment on the DEIS. The FEIS describes the potential environmental impacts of
constructing and operating a proposed ionospheric research facility in interior Alaska. The
system is referred to as HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program), and
would be used primarily for conducting pioneering studies of ionospheric properties. This
proposed facility would be the most technologically advanced in the world. The program
could lead to a better understanding of the ionosphere and enable researchers to develop
methods for enhanced communications for both civilian and defense applications. The
HAARP system consists of a powerful high frequency radio transmitter, referred to as the
ionospheric research instrument, and a number of scientific data gathering (diagnostic)
instruments.
Through the application of both research and siting constraints, two potential candidate sites
were identified in Alaska; Clear and Gakona. This document addresses three alternatives
associated with the construction of the HAARP facility; namely, construction at either Clear
or Gakona, and the no action alternative. Issues and resources that were examined for both
of the sites include land and minerals, vegetation and wetlands, mammals, birds, aquatics,
hydrology and water quality, air quality, socioeconomics, cultural resources, subsistence,
recreation, aesthetics, possible bioeffects of radio frequency radiation, electromagnetic
environment and radio frequency interference, atmosphere, threatened and endangered
species, hazardous materials and wastes, and irretrievable commitment of resources. Based
on comments received on the DEIS, an additional analysis relating to acoustical noise was
added to this document. Key concerns for the Gakona site include radio frequency
interference, cost of construction, permafrost degradation and subsidence issues, impacts on
migrating birds, and the availability of and access to gravel sources. Key concerns for the
Clear site include land ownership and wetlands issues, disturbance of cultural resources, radio
frequency interference, aesthetic impacts, and the near-term reclamation of the Gakona site. ---........
f) Released to the public on July _,1993 . ,
I I
IIIIIIIIIIIIIiII
SI5I
SUMMARY
FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT (FEIS)
CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF AN IONOSPHERIC RESEARCH
FACILITY FOR THE HIGH FREQUENCY
ACTIVE AURORAL RESEARCH PROGRAM
Purpose and Need for Action
The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is a scientific endeavor aimed
at studying basic properties and behavior of the ionosphere, with particular emphasis placed on
being able to better understand and use it to enhance communications and surveillance systems
for both civil and defense purposes. The HAARP system, if constructed, would allow a
significant advance in man's ability to investigate the upper atmosphere.
The environmental analysis and impact study for this action focuses on the following resources
and issues: land and minerals; vegetation and wetlands; mammals; birds; aquatics; hydrology
and water quality; air quality; cultural resources; subsistence; bioeffects of radio frequency
radiation; electromagnetic environment and radio frequency interference; atmosphere; threatened
and endangered species; hazardous materials and wastes; and, irretrievable commitment of
resources. In addressing these subject areas, the FEIS is divided into three main sections:
proposed action and alternatives; affected environment; and environmental consequences and
mitigation.
Description of Proposed Action and Alternatives
The government proposes to construct the HAARP facility in Alaska. At the HAARP facility
research that cannot be accomplished within traditional ground-based laboratories would be
conducted on the earth's upper atmosphere and within the ionosphere. The main element of the
research facility would be a large radio wave transmitter. Similar, though less capable, research
facilities exist at many locations throughout the world and are operated routinely for the purpose
of scientific investigation of the ionosphere. In the U.S. its territories such systems are located
at Arecibo, Puerto Rico and Fairbanks, Alaska. Other installations are at Tromso, Norway;
Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and Apatity, Russia; Kharkov, Ukraine and Dushanbe, Tadzhikistan.
None of these existing systems, however, are effective enough to perform the experiments
planned for HAARP. Users of the HAARP research facility would include universities, the U.S.
Air Force, the U.S. Navy, and other government agencies such as the National Science
Foundation and Advanced Research Projects Agency
