[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 33 (Friday, February 16, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10739-10740]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-4013]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Previously Announced Roads and Trails Management Plan/
Environmental Impact Statement To Be Combined With Ongoing Effort on 
General Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement for Big South 
Fork National River and Recreation Area, Kentucky and Tennessee

SUMMARY: Public comment received on the Draft General Management Plan/
Environmental Impact Statement (GMP/EIS) indicated additional detail 
was needed to adequately understand National Park Service management 
proposals for the national area. In order to include more detail, it is 
necessary to consider management options for the national area's roads 
and trails.
    Anticipating a separate, concurrent effort to prepare a Roads and 
Trails Management Plan (RTMP)/EIS for the national area, a Notice of 
Intent was previously published in the Federal Register. Since planning 
for roads and trails will now be incorporated into the GMP/EIS, a 
separate RTMP/EIS will not be prepared. The GMP/EIS will now cover 
management actions concerning roads and trails. Because substantial 
revision of parts of the previous draft is anticipated, the National 
Park Service will be prepared and distributing a Supplemental Draft 
GMP/EIS. A Notice of Availability of the Supplemental Draft GMP/EIS 
will be published at the appropriate time.

DATES: The planning process is expected to extend through September 
2001, with the primary proposal formulation stage expected to end by 
May 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Superintendent, Big South Fork 
National River and Recreation Area, 4564 Leatherwood Ford Road, Oneida, 
Tennessee, 37841. Telephone: 423-569-9778.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Our practice is to make comments, including 
names and home addresses of respondents, available for public review 
during business hours. If you wish for us to withhold your name and/or 
address, you must state this prominently at the beginning of your 
comment. However, we will not consider anonymous comments. We will make 
all submissions from organizations or businesses, and from individuals 
identifying themselves as representatives or officials or organizations 
or businesses, available for public inspection in their entirety.
    Comments on roads and trails that were received during the scoping 
period

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for the RTMP/EIS will continue to be considered, and comments need not 
be resubmitted. Any new comments on the combined planning effort are 
welcome and will be accepted anytime during the planning process. 
Comments should be submitted to the address below.

    Dated: January 25, 2001.
W. Thomas Brown,
Acting Regional Director, Southeast Region.
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