04-28296. Plan of Operations, Environmental Assessment, Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas

AGENCY:

National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

ACTION:

Notice of Availability of a Plan of Operations and Environmental Assessment for a 30-day public review at Big Thicket National Preserve.

SUMMARY:

Notice is hereby given in accordance with section 9.52(b) of Title 36 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 9, Subpart B, that the National Park Service (NPS) has received from Famcor Oil Inc., a Plan of Operations to directionally drill the Roberts/Duke #1 flowline beneath the Menard Creek Corridor Unit of Big Thicket National Preserve, within Liberty and Polk Counties, Texas. The NPS has prepared an Environmental Assessment on this proposal.

DATES:

The above documents are available for public review and comment through January 27, 2005.

ADDRESSES:

The Plan of Operations and Environmental Assessment are available for public review and comment in the Office of the Superintendent, Art Hutchinson, Big Thicket National Preserve, 3785 Milam Street, Beaumont, Texas 77701. Copies of the Plan of Operations are available, for a duplication fee; and copies of the Environmental Assessment are available upon request, and at no cost, from the Superintendent, Art Hutchinson, Big Thicket National Preserve, 3785 Milam Street, Beaumont, Texas 77701.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mr. Dusty Pate, Range Technician, Big Thicket National Preserve, 3785 Milam Street, Beaumont, Texas 77701, Telephone: [phone] ext. 232, e-mail at [e-mail].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

If you wish to submit comments on these documents within the 30 days; mail them to the street address provided above, hand-deliver them to the park at the street address provided above, or electronically file them to the e-mail address provided above. 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 name and/or 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 or organizations or businesses, available for public inspection in their entirety.

Dated: October 25, 2004.

John T. Crowley,

Acting Regional Director, Intermountain Region, National Park Service.