[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 1 (Tuesday, January 3, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 144-145]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-32229]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Draft Comprehensive Management and Use Plan/EIS, Jaun Bautista de
Anza National Historic Trail; Notice of Management Proposals and Notice
of Availability of Draft Environmental Impact Statement
SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969 (P.L. 91-190 as amended), the National Park Service
has prepared an environmental impact statement (EIS) and Comprehensive
Management and Use Plan for the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic
Trail.
The Draft Comprehensive Management and Use Plan/Environmental
Impact Statement presents a proposal and three alternatives for the
management, use, and development of the Juan Bautista de Anza National
Historic Trail. The proposal (alternative D) calls for marking the
historic route, identifies an auto route, and envisions a continuous
multi-use recreational retracement trail. The National Park Service
(NPS) will take an active role in administrative oversight of the trail
by helping protect a continuous trail right-of-way and historic,
cultural, and natural resources associated with the trail. The NPS will
certify eligible sites and segments and provide leadership for state,
regional, and local governments, private landowners, organizations,
corporations, and individuals to create a continuous and unified trail.
The NPS will form a partnership with a non-profit trail association for
the Anza Trail under the auspices of Heritage Trails Fund. Interpretive
programs and a system of wayside exhibits will enhance visitor
opportunities along the route. A planned promotional and tourism
program will increase visitor awareness of American Indian and Spanish
Colonial culture and history related to the 1775-76 Anza colonizing
expedition to San Francisco Bay.
The other alternatives included in this document include a Single
Theme (alternative A), Multi-theme (alternative B), and Broad Outreach
(alternative C). Because action was legislated, a pure no action
alternative is not considered. Alternative A most closely resembles the
no action alternative required in an Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS). Alternative A would limit trail recognition and resource
protection to federal lands and state parks and focus interpretation on
only the 1775-76 Anza trek. Trail uses would be limited to those of the
original expedition. Management would emphasize volunteers, and the
National Park Service would play a minor role. Alternative B is similar
to the proposal but would not have the promotional aspects. Alternative
C is similar to the proposal, but would broaden the interpretive themes
to the overlay of history along the trail route from prehistory to the
present and would include a list of points of interest associated with
the trail. [[Page 145]]
The environmental consequences of the proposed action and
alternatives are addressed at a level suitable to a management policy
plan. This programmatic EIS considers impacts to cultural resources,
natural resources, and the socio-economic environment. More detailed
environmental analysis for specific trail projects is expected to
follow in tiered environmental documents.
Supplementary information: The public review period for this document
will end 60 days after the publication of the Notice of Availability in
the Federal Register. Comments will be accepted until March 1, 1995.
All review comments must be received by that time and should be
addressed to Regional Director, Western Region, Attention Meredith
Kaplan, National Park Service, 600 Harrison Street, Suite 600, San
Francisco, CA 94107-1372.
For copies of the Comprehensive Management and Use Plan/EIS or
further information on the documents, please contact the above address
or telephone 415/744-3968. Copies of the documents are also available
at national parks along the route and county park and planning agencies
and libraries along the route.
Dated: December 16, 1994.
Ray Murray,
Regional Director, Western Region.
[FR Doc. 94-32229 Filed 12-30-94; 8:45 am]
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