[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 136 (Tuesday, July 16, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46689-46690]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-17802]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


General Management Plan, Draft Environmental Impact Statement, 
Navajo National Monument, Arizona

AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Availability of draft environmental impact statement and 
general management plan for Navajo National Monument.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969, the National Park Service announces the 
availability of a draft Environmental Impact Statement and General 
Management Plan for Navajo National Monument, Arizona.

DATES: The draft Environmental Impact Statement and General Management 
Plan will remain available for public review for 60 days after 
publication of this notice. No public meetings are scheduled at this 
time.
    Comments: If you wish to comment, you may submit your comments by 
any one of several methods. You may mail comments to Superintendent, 
Navajo National Monument, HC 71, Box 3, Tonalea, Arizona 86044-9704. 
You may also comment via the Internet to [email protected]. Please 
submit Internet comments either as an ASCII file avoiding the use of 
special characters and any form of encryption, as a Microsoft Word 
file, or as a Word Perfect file. Please also include your name and 
return address in your Internet message. If you do not receive a 
confirmation from the system that we have received your Internet 
message, contact us directly by calling Suzy Stutzman at 303-987-6671. 
Finally, you may hand-deliver comments to the Navajo National Monument 
visitor center or the Intermountain Support Office--Denver, 12795 W. 
Alameda Parkway, Lakewood, CO (room 186).
    Our practice is to make comments, including names and home 
addresses of respondents, available for public review during regular 
business hours. Individual respondents may request that we withhold 
their home address from the record, which we will honor to the extent 
allowable by law. There also may be circumstances in which we would 
withhold from the record a respondent's identity, as allowable by law. 
If you wish us to withhold your name and/or address, you must state 
this prominently at the beginning of your comment. We will make all 
submissions from organizations or businesses, and from individuals 
identifying themselves as representatives or officials of organizations 
or businesses, available for public inspection in their entirety.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the draft Environmental Impact Statement and 
General Management Plan are available from the Superintendent, Navajo 
National Monument, HC 71, Box 3, Tonalea, Arizona 86044-9704. The plan 
is also available on the internet at: http://www.nps.gov/planning/nava.
    Public reading copies of the document will be available for review 
at the following locations: Office of the Superintendent, Navajo 
National Monument, Tonalea, Arizona 86044, Telephone: 928-672-2700. 
Planning and Environmental Quality, Intermountain Support Office--
Denver, National Park Service, 12795 W. Alameda Parkway, Lakewood, CO 
80228, Telephone: (303) 987-6671. Office of Public Affairs, National 
Park Service, Department of Interior, 18th and C Streets NW., 
Washington, DC 20240, Telephone: (202) 208-6843.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Contact Superintendent, Navajo 
National Monument at the above address and telephone number.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This general management plan will guide the 
management of Navajo National Monument for the next 15 to 20 years. The 
general management plan considers three alternatives--a no-action and 
two action alternatives, including the National Park Service preferred 
alternative. The preferred alternative would carefully manage the 
monument's existing land base and emphasize partnerships and 
cooperation with American Indian tribes and others to protect Navajo 
National Monument's resources and promote visitor understanding of the 
entire region. Opportunities for more innovative and diverse programs, 
education and outreach, cross-training, and broader resource management 
would be greatly enhanced by a collaborative regional effort.
    The draft environmental impact statement assess impacts to cultural 
resources (archeological resources, historic structures, cultural 
landscapes, ethnographic resources, and museum collections); natural 
resources (water resources, wetlands and floodplains, soils, 
vegetation, wildlife, and threatened, endangered, candidate, and

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species of special concern); visitor understanding and experience; 
remoteness; the monument's socio-economic environment; and monument 
operations.

    Dated: April 10, 2002.
Michael D. Sunder,
Deputy Regional Director, Intermountain Region, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 02-17802 Filed 7-15-02; 8:45 am]
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