A Facsmile Report: Kauai Test Facility Two Experiment Rocket Campaign Environmental Assessment.

The Kauai Test Facility KTF is a Department of Energy DOE owned facility located at Barking Sands, on the west coast of the island of Kauai, Hawaii Figs. 1 2 . KTF is a tenant within the Department of Defenses DoD US Navy Pacific Missile Range Facility PMRF . KTF administrative areas and principal launch field are at the northern end of PMRF. The KTF has a rocket preparation and launching capability for both rail-launched and vertical-launched rockets. Launches primarily support high altitude scientific research and re-entry vehicle systems and carry experimental non-nuclear payloads. This environmental assessment EA has been prepared for the Two Experiment Rocket Campaign, during which the STRYPILACE STRYPI is not an acronym - its the name of the rocket LACE is the acronym for Low Altitude Compensation Experiment and the RAp-501 Rocket Accelerated Penetrator will be flown in conjunction from the KTF in February 1991 to reduce costs. There have been numerous rocket campaigns at the KTF in prior years that have used the same motors to be used in the current two experiment rocket campaign. The main difference noted in this environmental documentation is that the two rockets have not previously been flown in conjunction. Previous National Environmental policy Act NEPA approvals of launches using these motors were limited to different and separate campaigns with diverse sources of funding.