[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 117 (Monday, June 19, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32023-32024]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-13624]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Notice of Availability and Notice of Public Hearing on a Draft 
Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS)

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969, as amended, the Department of the Interior, Fish 
and Wildlife Service has prepared a draft [[Page 32024]] environmental 
impact statement (DEIS) on the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife 
Refuge Comprehensive Management Plan, Adams County, Colorado. The DEIS 
describes four alternatives for managing the Refuge, and discloses each 
alternative's environmental effects. A public hearing will be held to 
receive comments from interested agencies, organizations and 
individuals on the analysis contained in the DEIS.

DATES: Written comments concerning the analysis will be accepted August 
3, 1995 at the address below.
    A public meeting will be held on June 27, 1995 at 7 p.m. at the 
location indicated below.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the DEIS may be reviewed at the following 
locations:

Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Building 613, Commerce 
City, CO 80022-1748
Fish and Wildlife Service Regional Office, 134 Union Blvd, Lakewood, 
Colorado 80225
Denver Public Library-Central, 1357 Broadway, Denver, Colorado
Denver Public Library-Montbello, 12955 Albrook Drive, Denver, Colorado
Commerce City Public Library, 72nd and Monaco, Commerce City, Colorado
Public Meeting Red Lion Hotel, 3203 Quebec Street, Denver, CO 80207.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dave Shaffer, Planning Coordinator, (303) 289-0232.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife 
Refuge Act of 1992 (Public Law 102-402) establishes the Rocky Mountain 
Arsenal as a National Wildlife Refuge following environmental cleanup, 
and provided authority for the Fish and Wildlife Service to manage the 
area as if it were a National Wildlife Refuge during the cleanup 
process. Pursuant to the Department of Interior's Departmental Manual 
implementing the National Environmental Policy Act, the Fish and 
Wildlife Service is preparing a Comprehensive Management Plan for the 
Refuge and an Environmental Impact Statement on the Plan. The Plan will 
guide the development of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife 
Refuge. Ray Rauch, Project Leader, will be the responsible official. 
The Fish and Wildlife Service believes it is important to give 
reviewers notice at this early stage of guidance provided by several 
court rulings related to public participation in the environmental 
review process. Reviewers of draft environmental impact statements must 
structure their participation in the environmental review of the 
proposal so that it is meaningful and alerts an agency to the 
reviewer's position and contentions. Judicial review may waive or 
dismiss objections that could have been raised at the draft 
environmental impact statement stage, but that were not raised until 
after completion of the final environmental impact statement.
Terry T. Terrell,
Acting Regional Director, Region 6, Denver, Colorado.
[FR Doc. 95-13624 Filed 6-16-95; 8:45 am]
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