[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 162 (Monday, August 23, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 45978]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-21802]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Comprehensive Management and Use Plan for the California and Pony
Express National Historic Trails, Management and Use Plan Update for
the Oregon and Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trails/Final
Environmental Impact Statement
AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Availability of Final Environmental Impact Statement
for Oregon, California, Mormon Pioneer, and Pony Express National
Historic Trails.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102 (2) (c) of the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969, the National Park Service (NPS) announces the
availability of a final environmental impact statement and
comprehensive management and use plan (FEIS/CMP) for the Oregon,
California, Mormon Pioneer, and Pony Express National Historic Trails.
DATES: A 30-day no-action period will follow the Environmental
Protection Agency's notice of availability of the FEIS/CMP.
ADDRESSES: Public reading copies of the FEIS/CMP will be available for
review at the Long Distance Trails Office, 324 S. State St., Suite 250,
Salt Lake City, UT 84145 (801) 539-4095.
Planning and Environmental Quality, Intermountain Support Office--
Denver, National Park Service, 12795 W. Alameda Parkway, Lakewood, CO
80228, (303) 9699-2851 [or (303) 969-2832].
Office of Public Affairs, National Park Service, Department of the
Interior, 18th and C Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20240, (202) 208-6843.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Final Environmental Impact Statement
for the Comprehensive Management and Use Plan presents a proposal and
an alternative for guiding the future management of the four national
historic trails. The plan serves as a coordinating document that
provides broad-based policies, guidelines, and standards for
administering the four trails in such a manner, as to ensure the
protection of trail resources, their interpretation and continued use.
Both alternatives aim to balance resource preservation and use.
Alternative 1 (current conditions) reflects the wide variability in the
administration and management, resource protection strategies, and
interpretation, visitor experience and visitor use that exists today.
Alternative 2 (the proposal) focuses on enhancing resource protection
and visitor use. It calls for an improved visitor experience through
integrated development and programming and a comprehensive strategy for
resource protection, including an ambitious program to inventory and
monitor resources that would bring together, in one location,
information currently dispersed.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Superintendent Long Distance Trails
Office at the above address and phone number.
Dated: August 6, 1999.
Jere L. Krakow,
Superintendent, Long Distance Trails Office, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 99-21802 Filed 8-20-99; 8:45 am]
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