[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 183 (Tuesday, September 22, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50580-50581]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-25296]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE


Final Environmental Impact Statement; P140 Coaxial Cable Removal 
Project, Socorro, New Mexico to Mojave, CA, Notice of Approval of 
Record of Decision

    Summary: Pursuant to Sec. 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969 (P.L.91-190, as amended) and the regulations 
promulgated by the Council on Environmental Quality (40 CFR Part 
1505.2), the Department of the Interior, National Park Service (lead 
agency) and Bureau of Land Management (cooperating agency) prepared an 
abbreviated Final

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Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for AT&T's P140 Coaxial Cable 
Removal Project. The no-action period commenced May 29, 1998 with the 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Federal Register notice of FEIS 
filing. Final approval of the Record of Decision (ROD) occured on 
August 17, 1998.
    Decision: The National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management 
will monitor and evaluate implementation of Alternative A (identifed as 
the preferred alternative in the Final Environmental Impact Statement 
issued in May 1998). AT&T will initiate activities encompassed in the 
selected alternative as soon as practical. This option and three other 
alternatives were detailed and analyzed in the Final and Draft 
Environmental Impact Statements (latter issued in December, 1997).
    Approval: The Record Of Decision (ROD) was jointly approved as 
follows: National Park Service--John Reynolds, Pacific West Regional 
Director (August 5); Bureau of Land Management--Tim Salt, Acting 
District Manager, Riverside, California (August 14); Robert Abbey, 
State Director, Nevada (August 17); Michelle Chavez, State Director, 
New Mexico (August 10). The ROD was reviewed by the Director, Office of 
Environmental Policy and Compliance, Department of the Interior.
    Copies of the approved ROD may be obtained either from: 
Superintendent, Mojave National Preserve, 222 E. Main St. 202, 
Barstow, CA 92311; BLM Las Vegas Field Office, 4765 W. Las Vegas Dr., 
Las Vegas, NV; BLM Socorro Resource Area, 198 Neel Ave, NW, Socorro, 
NM; or from the Project Manager, AT&T Cable Removal, EIS Pkg. D176-15A 
21, Denver Service Center, National Park Service, P. O. Box 25287, 
Denver, CO 80225-0287.

    Dated: September 8, 1998.
Patricia L. Neubacher,
Acting Regional Director, Pacific West Region.
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