[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 38 (Friday, February 26, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 9526]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-4798]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Grazing Component (Plan) for Glen Canyon National Recreation Area 
and Environmental Assessment

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Department of the Interior, National Park Service has 
prepared an Environmental Assessment for the Grazing Component of the 
1979 General Management Plan for Glen Canyon National Recreation Area 
(NRA). The Environmental Assessment (EA) analyzes the potential 
environmental impacts associated with implementing changes in future 
grazing practices within Glen Canyon NRA. The EA presents four 
alternatives and looks at the potential impacts associated with the 
proposed grazing management practices. The proposed plan clearly 
identifies the process, and the values and purposes used in the 
assessment of future actions on the part of the permittees, the Bureau 
of Land Management, and the Glen Canyon NRA management staff.

DATES: There will be a 30-day public review and comment period on the 
plan and environmental assessment beginning on March 1, 1999. Comments 
should be received no later than March 31, 1999. There will be open 
public forums from 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm at the following locations:

Kanab, UT--March 29, at Kanab Court House, 76 N Main
Escalante, UT--March 30 at Escalante City Office, 56 N 100 W
Hanksville, UT--March 31, at Bureau of Land Management Field Office
Page, AZ--March 26, at Page City Council Chamber
Monticello, UT--March 22, at Old County Court House

    Written comments will be accepted at these meetings, and if 
postmarked by March 31, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Requests for the grazing plan and EA, and all written 
comments can be sent to: Superintendent, Glen Canyon NRA, P.O. Box 
1507, Page, Arizona 86040, or faxed to (520) 608-6259.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Grazing within Glen Canyon NRA is authorized 
by the enabling legislation (Pub. L. 92-593). The legislation mandates 
that the administration of mineral and grazing leases within the 
recreation area shall be by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). ``The 
same policies followed by the BLM in issuing and administering mineral 
and grazing leases on other lands under its jurisdiction shall be 
followed in regard to the lands within the boundaries of the recreation 
area, subject to the [finding] that such * * *'' would not have 
significant adverse effects * * * on the administration of the national 
recreation area (and) the conservation and management of natural 
resources . . . pursuant to this act.''
    Development of this Grazing Component satisfies one of four 
subsequent Resource Management planning needs listed in the General 
Management Plan for Glen Canyon NRA.

    Dated: February 8, 1999.
Joseph F. Alston,
Superintendent, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
[FR Doc. 99-4798 Filed 2-25-99; 8:45 am]
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