[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 33 (Friday, February 19, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8399-8400]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-4078]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Environmental Statements; Availability, Etc. Stones River 
National Battlefield, TN

AGENCY: National Park Service, Stones River National Battlefield, 
Tennessee, DOI.

ACTION: Notice of Availability for Final General Management Plan/
Development Concept Plan/Environmental Impact Statement for Stones 
River National Battlefield.

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SUMMARY: This Final General Management Plan/Development Concept Plan/
Environmental Impact Statement (FGMP/DCP/EIS) describes three 
alternatives for cultural and natural resource protection and 
management, visitor use and interpretation and related facilities 
development at Stones River National Battlefield. Alternative 1, the 
National Park Service's (NPS) proposed action, would preserve a larger 
area of the battlefield that has retained historic landscape integrity. 
It would also improve interpretation and the ability of the visitor to 
experience a ``sense of place'' within the battlefield. This would be 
accomplished by protection of more resources through boundary expansion 
and land acquisition, new exhibits in the visitor center, establishment 
of a new automobile tour route within the expanded boundary, and new 
interpretive wayside exhibits. Alternative 2 would improve 
interpretation and the visitor experience within the authorized 
boundary of the park. This would be accomplished by providing new 
exhibits in the visitor center, establishing a new automobile tour 
route within the park, and providing new wayside exhibits. There would 
be no change in the authorized boundary. Alternative 3 (continuation of 
existing conditions) would represent no significant change in 
interpretation and the way the park is being managed, and no change in 
the authorized park boundary. Under all alternatives, there would be an 
emphasis on working with local agencies, groups, and landowners to 
preserve and protect lands that retain historic landscape integrity 
within the

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original battlefield, but outside the park boundary. Environmental 
impacts that would result from implementation of the alternatives are 
addressed in the document. Impact topics include cultural and natural 
resources, interpretation and visitor use, socioeconomic environment, 
and NPS operations. Measures that would be taken to mitigate impacts 
are also described in the FEIS.

Availability

    The FEIS is being mailed to agencies, organizations, and 
individuals on the park's mailing list, and is on display at Linebaugh 
Public Library, 205 West Vine Street, Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130, 
and at the following location. A limited number of copies are available 
from the Superintendent at the Stones River National Battlefield 
Visitor Center. Superintendent, Stones River National Battlefield, 3501 
Old Nashville Highway, Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37129, Telephone (615) 
893-9501.
    No sooner than 30 days from the appearance of this notice in the 
Federal Register, a Record of Decision will be signed that will 
document NPS approval of the General Management Plan for Stones River 
National Battlefield, and identify the selected action from the 
alternatives presented in the FEIS.

    Dated: February 5, 1999.
Daniel Brown,
Acting Regional Director, Southeast Region.
[FR Doc. 99-4078 Filed 2-18-99; 8:45 am]
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