[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 176 (Wednesday, September 11, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57632-57633]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-23060]


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PRESIDIO TRUST


The Presidio of San Francisco, California; Notice of Adoption of 
the Presidio Trust Management Plan and Availability of the Record of 
Decision

AGENCY: The Presidio Trust.

ACTION: The Presidio Trust Board of Directors (Board) has adopted the 
``Presidio Trust Management Plan, Land Use Policies for Area B of The 
Presidio of San Francisco'' (PTMP) from among six plan alternatives and 
one variant as the plan that will guide the Presidio Trust's (Trust's) 
future management and implementation of projects within the area of The 
Presidio of San Francisco (Presidio) under the Trust's jurisdiction 
(Area B). The selection and basis for the Trust's decision is set forth 
in a Record of Decision (ROD) for the PTMP Final Environmental Impact 
Statement (Final EIS).

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    The Board made the decision set forth in the ROD after more than 
two years of planning and environmental review by the Trust in 
compliance with the decision-making requirements of the National 
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) 
(NEPA), the NEPA's implementing regulations promulgated by the Council 
on Environmental Quality (40 CFR 1500-1508), and the Trust's 
supplemental implementing regulations

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at 36 CFR part 1010. The Final EIS is a programmatic document, and 
supplements the 1994 Final General Management Plan Amendment 
Environmental Impact Statement for the Presidio. Based upon a thorough 
analysis of the PTMP Final EIS alternatives and their potential 
environmental consequences, consideration of all public and agency 
comments received during the NEPA process, and in consideration of the 
mandates of the Trust Act (16 U.S.C. 460bb note, Title I of Pub. L. 
104-333, 110 Stat. 4097), as amended, and the entire agency record, the 
Board selected the PTMP, analyzed in the Final EIS as the Final Plan 
Alternative and fully set forth in the separate PTMP document, as the 
Trust's management plan. The Board approved and adopted the PTMP by 
unanimous vote on August 22, 2002, and authorized the Trust's Executive 
Director to execute the ROD memorializing the Board's decision. The ROD 
was signed on August 27, 2002.

CONTENTS: The ROD documents the decision and rationale for adopting the 
PTMP (identified during project scoping and review of draft documents 
under the name Presidio Trust Implementation Plan or PTIP). The ROD 
also provides background about the Trust and the planning effort, and 
describes the alternatives considered, public involvement, agency 
consultation, mitigating measures developed to avoid or minimize 
environmental impacts of the selected alternative, and use of the Final 
EIS in subsequent decision making. As required by the NEPA, it 
identifies the environmentally preferable alternative, and sets forth 
an evaluation of alternatives and the reasons for adopting the Final 
Plan Alternative. A report addressing public input received during the 
period following release of the PTMP and the accompanying Final EIS is 
also attached to the ROD.

DATES: The Trust initiated a public planning and environmental review 
process pursuant to the NEPA on June 30, 2000, developed alternative 
plan options and issued a Draft Plan and Draft EIS on July 25, 2001, 
invited public participation and considered public comment, and issued 
a proposed Final Plan, Final EIS, and responses to public comments on 
May 24, 2002. The 30-day minimum ``no-action'' period required by the 
NEPA expired on June 23, 2002, and the Trust signed the PTMP ROD, 
making it immediately effective, on August 27, 2002.
    Materials Available to the Public: The approved ROD is available by 
calling or writing the Presidio Trust, 34 Graham Street, P.O. Box 
29052, San Francisco, CA 94129-0052. Telephone: 415/561-5414. The ROD 
is available electronically on the Trust's website (http://www.presidiotrust.gov). The ROD may also be reviewed in the Trust's 
library at the above address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Pelka, NEPA Compliance Manager, 
the Presidio Trust, 34 Graham Street, P.O. Box 29052, San Francisco, CA 
94129-0052. Telephone: 415/561-5414.

    Dated: September 4, 2002.
Karen A. Cook,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 02-23060 Filed 9-10-02; 8:45 am]
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