[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 155 (Wednesday, August 12, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 43192]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-21464]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Comprehensive Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement 
Oregon, California, Mormon Pioneer, and Pony Express National Historic 
Trails

AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Availability of Draft 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 draft environmental impact statement and 
comprehensive management plan (EIS/CMP) for the Oregon, California, 
Mormon Pioneer, and Pony Express National Historic Trails.

DATES: The DEIS/CMP will remain available for public review through 
October 19, 1998. Public meetings held concerning the DEIS/CMP will be 
announced at a later date.

ADDRESSES: Comments on the draft EIS shall be submitted to the 
Superintendent, Long Distance Trails Office, 324 S. State St., Suite 
250, Salt Lake City, UT 84145.
    Copies of the draft EIS will be available for review at the public 
libraries in the counties crossed by the trails. A list with the 
specific addresses will be made available to the mailing list 
associated with this project. For additional information contact: 
Superintendent, Long Distance Trails Office, 324 S. State St., Suite 
250, Salt Lake City, Utah 84145 (801) 539-4095.

Planning and Environmental Quality, Intermountain Support Office--
Denver, National Park Service, 12795 W. Alameda Parkway, Lakewood, CO 
80228, (303) 969-2851 [or (303) 969-2832].
Office of Public Affairs, National Park Service, Department of the 
Interior, 18th and C. Streets NW, Washington, DC 20240, (202) 208-6843.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Draft Environmental Impact Statement 
for the Comprehensive Management Plan presents and proposal and an 
alternative for guiding 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 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 4, 1998.
Michael D. Snyder,
Acting Regional Director, Intermountain Region, National Park Service.
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