[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 198 (Tuesday, October 14, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53336-53337]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-27106]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Comprehensive Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement for
the Vancouver National Historic Reserve, Washington
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement.
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SUMMARY: The National Park Service, in cooperation with the City of
Vancouver, Washington, U.S. Army, and the State of Washington, will
prepare a comprehensive management plan and environmental impact
statement (EIS) for the Vancouver National Historic Reserve in
Vancouver, Washington.
The 366-acre Reserve, which includes Fort Vancouver National
Historic Site, Vancouver Barracks, Officers Row, Pearson Field, the
Water Resources Education Center, and portions of the Columbia River
Waterfront, was established with the signing of Public Law 104-333 on
November 12, 1996. The Reserve is to be administered in accordance with
a comprehensive management plan to be developed by a partnership
consisting of the U.S. Army, the National Park Service, the City of
Vancouver, and the State of Washington Office of Historic Preservation.
The comprehensive management plan will take a long-range look at
ways to protect the Reserve resources and opportunities for management
and use, and will help determine management direction for the next 10
to 15 years. One of the primary components of the plan is interpretive
planning. Interpretive planning identifies the primary interpretive
themes, recommends appropriate interpretive services, facilities, and
programs that will best communicate the Historic Reserve's purpose,
significance, compelling stories, themes, and values. The plan will
also define roles and responsibilities of the Reserve partners and
provide estimates of management, development, and operating costs and
staffing needs.
The legislation establishing the Reserve also directed that the
Plan include an economic study for Pearson Field. The Partners will
work to determine the scope of the study and to look at funding options
in preparing the study as an attachment to the final plan.
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DATES: A newsletter will be issued in October 1997, that will describe
the planning process and schedule, and list the draft purpose,
significance, and interpretive themes for the Reserve.
Public scoping meetings to discuss the planning process, solicit
public input on the purpose, significance, and desired future
conditions for the Reserve, and identify issues to be addressed in the
EIS will be held on October 29, 1997, at 7:30 p.m. at the Doubletree
Hotel at the Quay, 100 Columbia Street, Vancouver, Washington, and on
October 30, 1997, at the Oregon Historical Society, Oregon History
Center, 1200 S.W. Park Avenue, Portland, Oregon, at 12:00 noon.
ADDRESSES: As part of the scoping process, the public is encouraged to
send written comments and suggestions concerning the preparation of the
plan and EIS by November 14, 1997, to: Tony Sisto, Superintendent, Fort
Vancouver National Historic Site, 612 E. Reserve Street, Vancouver, WA
98661.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Contact Mr. Lawrence Beal, Planning Team
Leader, at Vancouver National Historic Reserve Planning Team, Denver
Service Center--Beal DSC/RP, 12795 West Alameda Parkway, PO Box 25287,
Denver, CO 80225-9901, or call (505) 899-0205, ext. 224, or E-mail at:
[email protected]. The NPS Internet Homepage at http://www.nps.gov/
planning will also have the newsletter and further information about
this plan and EIS.
Dated: September 30, 1997.
Rory Westberg,
Superintendent, Columbia Cascades Support Office, Pacific West Region.
[FR Doc. 97-27106 Filed 10-10-97; 8:45 am]
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