Bremerton Waterfront Infrastructure Improvements Environmental Impact Statement

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Welcome

This United States Navy (Navy) project website provides the latest information on the Bremerton Waterfront Infrastructure Improvements Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).

The Navy invites the public to provide comments on the environmental analysis presented in the Draft EIS during the 45-day public review and comment period, from July 18 to Sept. 3, 2025.

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Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, the Navy prepared a Draft EIS to evaluate the potential environmental impacts of constructing a new multi-mission dry dock and associated waterfront infrastructure improvements at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PSNS & IMF). PSNS & IMF is located on Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton in Washington state.

To submit a public comment for consideration in development of the Final EIS, please click on the Comment Form link below.

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About the Project/Proposed Action

Background

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PSNS & IMF) is the Navy's primary provider for the maintenance, repair, modernization, inactivation, and recycling of ships, submarines, and aircraft carriers in the Pacific Fleet. PSNS & IMF is the only Navy shipyard on the West Coast with a dry dock that can accommodate the large size of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers for repair and maintenance. Additionally, PSNS & IMF is the only Navy shipyard that is approved to recycle nuclear-powered submarines.

Much of the infrastructure at PSNS & IMF dates back to the late 1800s and early 1900s and it was primarily designed for building and maintaining ship classes that are no longer part of the modern naval fleet. Other than construction of Dry Dock 6 in the early 1960s, the shipyard has had few major infrastructure updates since the mid-1900s, which has led to significant production inefficiencies for maintaining current ships. The shipyard lacks the necessary capability to accommodate new and future classes of ships.

Proposed Action

The U.S. Navy’s Proposed Action is to construct a new multi-mission dry dock at PSNS & IMF. The proposed dry dock would be designed and built to serve multiple missions and therefore would be classified as a multi-mission dry dock. Click here to learn more.

For more information, please visit other pages of this website or contact the Bremerton EIS Project Manager at info@BremertonWaterfrontImprovementsEIS.com.

a dry dockanother view of a dry dock

A dry dock is a narrow basin constructed near the shoreline that can be flooded to allow a vessel to navigate in, then drained to allow a vessel to come to rest on a dry platform. The purpose of a dry dock is to get a vessel out of the water for repair and maintenance work.

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