[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 187 (Monday, September 28, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51588-51589]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-25806]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Correction; Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area

    Concession Permit for Operation of the Ok-A-Beh Marina at Bighorn 
Canyon National Recreation Area (North Unit)
    CORRECTION: In notice document 98-15129, appearing on page 31228, 
of the June 8, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 109) issue, and in the 
correction notice appearing on page 41589, of the August 4, 1998 
(Volume 63, Number 149) issue, the EFFECTIVE DATE and SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION is corrected to read as follows:

EFFECTIVE DATE: The application period is extended ninety (90) days. 
Offers will be accepted for one hundred eighty (180) days under the 
terms described in the Prospectus. Any offer, including that of the 
existing concessioner, must be received by the Superintendent, Bighorn 
Canyon National Recreation Area, P.O. Box 485, Fort Smith, Montana 
59035, by December 16, 1998, to be considered and evaluated.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This permit renewal has been determined to 
be categorically excluded from the procedural provisions of the 
National Environmental Policy Act and no environmental document will be 
prepared.
    The existing concessioner, LuCon Corporation, has performed their 
obligations to the satisfaction of the Secretary under the existing 
permit which expires by limitation of time on December 31, 1998. 
Therefore, pursuant to the provisions of the Concessions

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Policy Act (79 Stat. 969; 16 U.S.C. Sec. 20d), the concessioner is 
entitled to be given preference in the renewal of the permit and in the 
award of a new permit, providing that the existing concessioner submits 
a responsive offer (a timely offer which meets the terms and conditions 
of the Prospectus). This means that the permit will be awarded to the 
party submitting the best offer, provided that if the best offer was 
not submitted by the existing concessioner, then the existing 
concessioner will be afforded the opportunity to match the best offer. 
If the existing concessioner agrees to match the best offer, then the 
permit will be awarded to the existing concessioner.
    If the existing concessioner does not submit a responsive offer, 
the right of preference in renewal shall be considered to have been 
waived, and the permit will then be awarded to the party that has 
submitted the best responsive offer.
    The Secretary will consider and evaluate all offers received as a 
result of this notice. Any offer, including that of the existing 
concessioner, must be received by the Superintendent, Bighorn Canyon 
National Recreation Area, P.O. Box 485, Fort Smith, Montana 59035, not 
later than one hundred eighty (180) days following release of the 
Prospectus to be considered and evaluated.

    Dated: September 17, 1998.
John H. King,
Acting Director, Intermountain Region.
[FR Doc. 98-25806 Filed 9-25-98; 8:45 am]
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