[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 33 (Friday, February 19, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8400-8401]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-4122]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Management Plan/Special Resource Study; Environmental Impact 
Statement: Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District, 
VA; Notice of Intent

AGENCIES: Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District 
Commission and National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
    In accordance with section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969, the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National 
Historic District Commission (Commission) and the National Park Service 
(NPS) are cooperating to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement 
(EIS) to assess the impacts of alternative management strategies for a 
Management Plan and Special Resource Study for the Shenandoah Valley 
Battlefields National Historic District (National Historic District), 
Virginia.
    The Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District and 
Commission Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-333) requires the Commission, 
with the assistance of the National Park Service, to prepare the 
Management Plan. The Management Plan/EIS will evaluate a range of 
alternatives which address cultural and natural resource protection, 
visitor use, and socioeconomic concerns. The Management Plan/EIS will 
also incorporate a NPS Special Resource Study to examine the 
possibility of creating a new unit of the National Park system.
    The Commission and the NPS will hold several scoping meetings in 
late February 1999, and early March 1999, to identify issues to be 
addressed in the Management Plan/Special Resource Study/EIS. The draft 
document is expected to be completed for public review by the summer of 
2000. After public and interagency review of the draft document, 
comments will be considered and a final EIS will be prepared for 
release by the fall of 2000, which will be followed by a record-of-
decision. The responsible officials are the chairman of the Commission 
and the Northeast Regional Director of the NPS.

    For further information and meeting times and locations, contact 
Howard Kittell, Executive Director, Shenandoah Valley Battlefields 
National Historic District Commission, P.O. Box 897, New Market, VA 
22844 or Jeff Reinbold, Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Project 
Coordinator, National Park Service, P.O. Box 897, New Market, VA 
22844. The phone number for both contacts is (540) 740-4545.


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    Dated: February 14, 1999.
Carrington Williams,
Chairman, Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District 
Commission.
    February 12, 1999.
Leonard C. Emerson,
Assistant Regional Director, Human Resources, Northeast Region, 
National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 99-4122 Filed 2-18-99; 8:45 am]
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