[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 162 (Monday, August 23, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 45978]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-21802]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Comprehensive Management and Use Plan for the California and Pony 
Express National Historic Trails, Management and Use Plan Update for 
the Oregon and Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trails/Final 
Environmental Impact Statement

AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Availability of Final Environmental Impact Statement 
for Oregon, California, Mormon Pioneer, and Pony Express National 
Historic Trails.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102 (2) (c) of the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969, the National Park Service (NPS) announces the 
availability of a final environmental impact statement and 
comprehensive management and use plan (FEIS/CMP) for the Oregon, 
California, Mormon Pioneer, and Pony Express National Historic Trails.

DATES: A 30-day no-action period will follow the Environmental 
Protection Agency's notice of availability of the FEIS/CMP.

ADDRESSES: Public reading copies of the FEIS/CMP will be available for 
review at the Long Distance Trails Office, 324 S. State St., Suite 250, 
Salt Lake City, UT 84145 (801) 539-4095.

Planning and Environmental Quality, Intermountain Support Office--
Denver, National Park Service, 12795 W. Alameda Parkway, Lakewood, CO 
80228, (303) 9699-2851 [or (303) 969-2832].
Office of Public Affairs, National Park Service, Department of the 
Interior, 18th and C Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20240, (202) 208-6843.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Final Environmental Impact Statement 
for the Comprehensive Management and Use Plan presents a proposal and 
an alternative for guiding the future management of the four national 
historic trails. The plan serves as a coordinating document that 
provides broad-based policies, guidelines, and standards for 
administering the four trails in such a manner, as to ensure the 
protection of trail resources, their interpretation and continued use. 
Both alternatives aim to balance resource preservation and use. 
Alternative 1 (current conditions) reflects the wide variability in the 
administration and management, resource protection strategies, and 
interpretation, visitor experience and visitor use that exists today. 
Alternative 2 (the proposal) focuses on enhancing resource protection 
and visitor use. It calls for an improved visitor experience through 
integrated development and programming and a comprehensive strategy for 
resource protection, including an ambitious program to inventory and 
monitor resources that would bring together, in one location, 
information currently dispersed.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Superintendent Long Distance Trails 
Office at the above address and phone number.

    Dated: August 6, 1999.
Jere L. Krakow,
Superintendent, Long Distance Trails Office, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 99-21802 Filed 8-20-99; 8:45 am]
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