[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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