BANGOR — To allow for additional input, the Navy has extended the public comment period to May 17 on the draft environmental impact statement for a $715 million wharf at the Bangor submarine base on Hood Canal.
The comment period was to have ended Monday.
The new wharf would be used to load and unload nuclear ballistic missiles on Trident submarines. The existing wharf, the Navy said, is 30 years old, outdated and in need of repair.
The Navy expects to begin construction in 2012 on the covered 560-foot wharf.
Eight Trident subs are based at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, located in Kitsap County about 40 road miles south of Port Townsend and across Hood Canal from rural Jefferson County.
The subs carry 24 missiles. Each missile can carry eight nuclear warheads.
Paper copies of the draft Environmental Impact Statement are available at the Jefferson County Library in Port Hadlock and the Port Townsend Public Library or can be downloaded at www.nbkeis.com/EHW.
Written comments can be mailed (postmarked by May 17) to Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Northwest, ATTN: Ms. Christine Stevenson, EHW2 EIS Project Manager, 1101 Tautog Circle, Silverdale, WA 98315-1101.
Comments also may be submitted via www.nbkeis.com/EHW.
