[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 107 (Monday, June 6, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 32847]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-11140]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
General Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement,
Effigy Mounds National Monument, IA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement
for the general management plan, Effigy Mounds National Monument.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42
U.S.C. 4332(C), the National Park Service (NPS) is preparing an
environmental impact statement for a general management plan for Effigy
Mounds National Monument, Iowa. The environmental impact statement will
be approved by the Director, Midwest Region.
The general management plan will prescribe the resource conditions
and visitor experiences that are to be achieved and maintained in the
monument over the next 15 to 20 years. The clarification of what must
be achieved according to law and policy will be based on review of the
monument's purpose, significance, special mandates, and the body of
laws and policies directing park management. Based on determinations of
desired conditions, the general management plan will outline the kinds
of resource management activities, visitor activities, and development
that would be appropriate in the future. A range of reasonable
management alternatives will be developed through this planning process
and will include, at a minimum, no-action and the preferred
alternative.
Major issues to be addressed in the plan include: Cultural and
natural resources of the park, visitor use of facilities and programs,
staff access for resource patrols and visitor protection, trail
development, vegetation control, management of threatened and
endangered species, management of the Yellow River, and land
protection.
DATES: Any comments on the scope of issues to be addressed in the EIS
should be received no later than December 30, 2005. Public meetings
regarding the general management plan will be held during the scoping
period. Specific dates, times, and locations will be made available in
the local media, on the Effigy Mounds National Monument Web site
(http://www.nps.gov/efmo), on the NPS Planning, Environment and Public
Comment (PEPC) Web site (parkplanning.nps.gov/publicHome.cfm), or by
contacting the Superintendent.
ADDRESSES: Information on the planning process and copies of
newsletters will be available from the office of the Superintendent,
151 Highway 76, Harpers Ferry, Iowa 52146-7519.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Superintendent Phyllis Ewing, Effigy
Mounds National Monument, 151 Highway 76, Harpers Ferry, Iowa 52146-
7519, telephone 563-873-3491.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: If you wish to comment on any issues
associated with the plan, you may submit your comments by any one of
several methods. You may mail comments to: Effigy Mounds National
Monument, 151 Highway 76, Harpers Ferry, Iowa 52146-7519. You may also
comment via e-mail to [email protected]. Please submit e-
mail comments as a text file avoiding the use of special characters and
any form of encryption. Be sure to include your name and return street
address in your Internet message. You may provide comments
electronically by entering them into the PEPC Web site at the address
above. Finally, you may hand-deliver comments to the monument
headquarters located three miles north of Marquette, Iowa, on Highway
76.
Our practice is to make comments, including names and home
addresses of respondents, available for public review during regular
business hours. Individual respondents may request that we withhold
their home address from the record, which we will honor to the extent
allowable by law. There also may be circumstances in which we would
withhold from the record a respondent's identity, as allowable by law.
If you wish us to withhold your address, you must state this
prominently at the beginning of your comment. We will make all
submissions from organizations or businesses, and from individuals
identifying themselves as representatives or officials of organizations
or businesses, available for public inspection in their entirety.
Dated: April 29, 2005.
Ernest Quintana,
Director, Midwest Region.
[FR Doc. 05-11140 Filed 6-3-05; 8:45 am]
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