[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 184 (Monday, September 23, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 59530]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-24047]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Availability of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement 
for the Special Resource Study for the Battle of Homestead and Carrie 
Furnaces Sites

AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of Interior.

ACTION: Availability of draft environmental impact statement for the 
Special Resource Study for the Battle of Homestead and Carrie Furnaces 
sites.

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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 (DEIS) for the 
Special Resource Study for the Battle of Homestead and Carrie Furnaces 
sites in Homestead, Pennsylvania. The Department of the Interior and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Bill (House of Representatives 
Committee Report 105-609) directed the National Park System to 
undertake a Special Resource Study for the Battle of Homestead and 
Carrie Furnace sites in Pennsylvania. The purpose of a Special Resource 
Study is to determine the degree and kind of federal actions that may 
be desirable for the management and protection of an area considered to 
have potential for addition to the National Park System. This is a 
Special Resource Study (SRS) of the U.S. Steel Homestead Works 
including the Battle of Homestead site and adjacent town of Homestead 
and the related Carrie Furnace area. The study area includes the 
National Historic District in the town of Homestead, the landing site 
and pump house, the site of Carrie Furnaces number 6 and 7, and the Hot 
Metal Bridge. The study addresses the significance of the site in the 
contexts of the history of steel making and labor history in the United 
States.
    The study area, includes portions of four boroughs within Allegheny 
County: Homestead, Munhall, Rankin and Swissvale.
    The land under consideration is currently part of the Rivers of 
Steel National Heritage Area, but it is all in private ownership and 
there is not expected to be any federal ownership and no NPS management 
role. Instead, conservation, interpretation and other activities will 
continue to be managed by partnerships among federal, state, and local 
governments and private nonprofit organizations. The national heritage 
area is managed by the Steel Industry Heritage Corporation (SIHC), a 
non-profit 501(c)(3). The National Park Service has been authorized by 
Congress to provide technical and financial assistance for a limited 
period to the SIHC (up to 10 years from the time of the designation in 
1996).

DATES: The DEIS will remain on Public Review for a period of sixty days 
after the Federal Register Announcement by the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency. If necessary a public meeting will be scheduled and 
notice will be made of the meeting through a broad public mailing and 
publication in the local newspapers.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peter Samuel, Project Leader, 
Philadelphia Support Office, National Park Service, U.S. Custom House, 
200 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, [email protected], 
215-597-1848.
    If you correspond using the internet, please include your name and 
return address in your e-mail message. Our practice is to make 
comments, including names and home addresses of respondents, available 
for public review. 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. 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 of organizations or 
businesses, available for public inspection in their entirety.

    Dated: August 7, 2002.
David Hollenberg,
Assistant Regional Director, National Heritage Partnerships, NPS 
Northeast Region.
[FR Doc. 02-24047 Filed 9-20-02; 8:45 am]
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