Japan's Defense Ministry on Saturday launched comprehensive environmental assessment on a U.S. Marine Corps' relocation site, said reports from the southern Japanese port city of Naha, capital of Okinawa Island.
The assessment work, which includes the evaluation of weather conditions, the impact on the ecological environment and noise levels from the aircraft, is conducted by the Okinawa Defense Bureau of the ministry at the U.S. Marines' Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, a planned relocation site for the Marine's Futemma Air Station in Ginowan.
Under an implementation agreement reached by Japan and the United States in May 2006, the Japanese government agreed to build a new airfield at Camp Schwab in Nago by 2014 to relocate the Futemma Air Station from the densely-populated area of Ginowan.
The local governments, however, have repeated asked the defense authorities to consider the impact of aircraft noise on the neighboring residential areas and the potential negative effect on local biological environment.
Source: Xinhua
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