[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 164 (Tuesday, August 25, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45254-45255]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-22724]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Availability of Draft Director's Order #77.1: Wetland 
Protection and Draft Procedural Manual #77.1: Wetland Protection

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The National Park Service (NPS) is converting and updating its 
current system of internal instructions. When these documents contain 
new policy or procedural requirements that may affect parties outside 
the NPS, this information is being made available for public review and 
comment. Draft Director's Order #77.1: Wetland Protection revises NPS 
policies, standards, and requirements for implementing Executive Order 
11990: Protection of Wetlands. Draft Procedural Manual #77.1: Wetland 
Protection establishes procedures for implementing the Director's 
Order. These documents update, streamline, and clarify existing NPS 
wetland protection policies and procedures for implementing the 
Executive Order, which were originally published in 1980 as part of the 
NPS Floodplain Management and Wetland Protection Guidelines (45 FR 
35916, minor revisions in 47 FR 36718).

DATES: Written comments will be accepted on or before September 24, 
1998.

ADDRESSES: Draft Director's Order #77.1: Wetland Protection and draft 
Procedural Manual #77.1: Wetland Protection are available on the 
Internet at: http://www.nps.gov/refdesk/DOrders/index.htm Requests for 
copies and written comments should be sent to: Joel Wagner, National 
Park Service,

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Water Resources Division, P.O. Box 25287, Denver, CO, 80225.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joel Wagner at (303) 969-2955.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NPS is revising the policies and 
procedures for implementing Executive Order 11990: Protection of 
Wetlands in conformance with the new system of NPS internal guidance 
documents. These updated policies and procedures will be published as 
Director's Order #77.1: Wetland Protection and Procedural Manual #77.1: 
Wetland Protection. Upon final approval of this Director's Order and 
the procedural manual, the existing NPS wetland protection guidance 
(1980 NPS Floodplain Management and Wetland Protection Guidelines), 
will be rescinded.

    Dated: August 19, 1998.
Michael Soukup,
Associate Director, Natural Resource Stewardship and Science.
[FR Doc. 98-22724 Filed 8-24-98; 8:45 am]
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