[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 14 (Monday, January 23, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4444-4445]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-1571]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Wilderness and Backcountry Management Plan, Joshua Tree National 
Park, California; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental 
Impact Statement

SUMMARY: The National Park Service will prepare a Wilderness and 
Backcountry Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement (W&BCMP/
EIS) for Joshua Tree National Park, California and initiate the scoping 
process for this document. This notice is in accordance with 40 CFR 
1501.7 and 40 CFR 1508.22, of the regulations of the President's 
Council on Environmental Quality for the National Environmental Policy 
Act of 1969, Public Law 91-190.

Background: The W&BCMP is needed to guide resource protection and 
visitor use activities in the undeveloped portions of the park. It will 
be consistent with and provide detailed direction to implement 
decisions made in the parkwide General Management Plan (GMP), expected 
to be completed in the next few months. It will serve as an amendment 
to the GMP in providing planning direction for the recently-authorized 
additions to the park, which are not covered by the GMP. The plan will 
provide for visitor access, visitor and resource protection, 
restoration of damaged areas, management of rock-climbing activities, 
and monitoring and regulating use to avoid exceeding carrying 
capacities.
    Persons wishing to offer comments or express concerns on the 
management issues and future management direction of backcountry areas 
of Joshua Tree National Park should address these to the 
Superintendent, Joshua Tree National Park, 74485 National Monument 
Drive, Twentynine Palms, Ca. 92277. (Telephone 619-367-7511). Comments 
on the scoping of the proposed W&BCMP/EIS should be received no later 
than February 28, 1995.
    Public scoping sessions will be scheduled as needed and notice 
given in the media.
    The responsible official is Stanley T. Albright, Regional Director, 
Western Region, National Park Service. The draft W&BCMP/EIS is expected 
to be available for public review in the fall of 1995, and the final 
W&BCMP/EIS and Record of Decision completed by the end of 1995.

    [[Page 4445]] Dated: January 9, 1995.
Bruce M. Kilgore,
Regional Director, Western Region.
[FR Doc. 95-1571 Filed 1-20-95; 8:45 am]
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