[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 20 (Monday, January 31, 2000)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

 National Park Service


Final Environmental Impact Statement, General Management Plan 
Amendment, Wilderness and Backcountry Management Plan, Josua Tree 
National Park, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, California; 
Notice of Approval of Record of Decision

SUMMARY:  Pursuant to Sec. 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969 (P.L. 91-190, as amended) and the regulations 
promulgated by the Council on Environmental Quality (40 CFR Part 
1505.2), the Department of the Interior, National Park Service has 
prepared and approved a Record of Decision for the Final Environmental 
Impact Statement Wilderness and Backcountry Management Plan for Joshua 
Tree National Park. The no action period was initiated November 5, 
1999, with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Federal Register 
notification of the filing of the Final Environmental Impact Statement 
(FEIS).

Decision:  The National Park Service will implement wilderness 
stewardship actions, monitoring, research, and other elements of a 
comprehensive program described as the New Proposed Action (Alternative 
E), as soon as practical. This course of action and four alternatives 
were identified and analyzed in the Final and Supplemental 
Environmental Impacts Statements (latter issued November 2, 1998). The 
Draft Environmental Impact Statement was distributed on November 21, 
1997.

Copies:  Interested parties desiring to review the Record of Decision 
may obtain a copy by contacting the Superintendent, Joshua Tree 
National Park, 74485 National Park Dr., Twentynine Palms, California 
92277-3597; or via telephone request at (760) 367-5502.

    Dated: January 14, 2000.
William C. Walters,
Deputy Regional Director, Pacific West Region.
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