95-12624. Final Rock Creek Tennis Stadium Environment Impact Statement, Washington, DC

[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 100 (Wednesday, May 24, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27552-27553]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-12624]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Final Rock Creek Tennis Stadium Environment Impact Statement, 
Washington, DC

AGENCY: National Park Service (Interior).

ACTION: Notice to distribute the final environmental impact statement.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to Council on Environmental Quality regulations and 
National Park Service policy, the National Park Service (NPS) announces 
the release of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the 
Rock Creek Tennis Stadium. The FEIS presents the NPS preferred 
alternative for future management and use of the Rock Creek Tennis 
Stadium. The preferred alternative, Alternative 2, allows for only one 
professional tennis tournament a year, in addition to amateur and 
league tennis events. Mitigation to relieve the park and surrounding 
neighborhood of parking and traffic congestion will be required for 
every professional tennis tournament. At a minimum, mitigation will 
include elimination of parking on turf areas in the park, measures to 
prevent tournament related parking on neighborhood streets, use of 
remote parking and shuttle buses, and dedication of some existing paved 
parking areas in the park for shuttle bus loading and storage. No major 
physical alterations to the park for buses or parking are proposed.

ADDRESSES: For copies of the FEIS, please contact: Superintendent Rock 
Creek Park, 3545 Williamsburg Lane, Washington, DC 20008. Copies can 
also be reviewed at the Rock Creek Park Nature Center.
    The responsible official is Mr. Robert G. Stanton, Regional 
Director, National Capitol Region, National Park Service, 1100 Ohio 
Drive, SW., Washington, DC 20242.
    A final public record of decision will be released stating the NPS 
selected alternative, environmental mitigation strategies adopted, and 
the rationale for the decisions no sooner than 30 days from the 
publication of this notice.

    Dated: May 18, 1995.
Terry R. Carlstrom,
Acting Regional Director, National Capital Region.
[FR Doc. 95-12624 Filed 5-23-95; 8:45 am]
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