MDA issues draft EIS on potential East Coast GMD site study

By Jason Sherman / June 3, 2016 at 8:24 PM
The Defense Department has published draft findings of its search for a potential East Coast missile defense site -- a notional $3 billion to $4 billion project to emplace 60 Ground-based Interceptors in New York, Ohio or Michigan that the Missile Defense Agency does not believe is necessary but is exploring in accordance with a statutory mandate. On May 31, MDA released a draft version of the Continental United States Interceptor Site Environmental Impact Statement -- a 1,702-page document --...

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