[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 21 (Wednesday, January 31, 2001)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 8366-8367]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-2786]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

36 CFR Part 7

RIN 1024-AC82


Special Regulations; Areas of the National Park System: Delay of 
Effective Date

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Final rule; delay of effective date.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the memorandum of January 20, 2001, from 
the Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, entitled 
``Regulatory Review Plan,'' 66 FR 7701 (Jan. 24, 2001), this document 
temporarily delays for 60 days the effective date of the rule entitled 
Special Regulations; Areas of the National Park System, published in 
the Federal Register on January 22, 2001, (66 FR 7259). That rule 
concerns the restrictions on snowmobiles and other winter activities in 
Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks as well as the John D. 
Rockefeller, Jr., Memorial Parkway.

DATES: The effective date of the Special Regulations; Areas of the 
National Park System, published in the Federal Register on January 22, 
2001, (62 FR 7259), is delayed for 60 days, from February 21, 2001 to a 
new effective date of April 22, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kym Hall, Regulations Program Manager,

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National Park Service, 1849 C Street, NW., Room 7413, Washington, DC 
20240. Telephone (202) 208-4206.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To the extent that 5 U.S.C. section 553 
applies to this action, the action is exempt from notice and comment 
because it constitutes a rule of procedure under 5 U.S.C. section 
553(b)(A). Alternatively, the Department's implementation of this 
action without opportunity for public comment, effective immediately 
upon publication today in the Federal Register, is based on the good 
cause exceptions in 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(3)(B) and 553(d)(3), in that 
seeking public comment is impractical, unnecessary and contrary to the 
public interest. The temporary 60-day delay in effective date is 
necessary to give Department officials the opportunity for further 
review and consideration of new regulations, consistent with the 
Assistant to the President's memorandum of January 20, 2001. Given the 
imminence of the effective date, seeking prior public comment on this 
temporary delay would have been impractical, as sell as contrary to the 
public interest in the orderly promulgation and implementation of 
regulations.

    Dated: January 29, 2001.
Timothy S. Elliott,
Acting Deputy Solicitor.
[FR Doc. 01-2786 Filed 1-29-01; 2:32 pm]
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