[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 184 (Monday, September 23, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 59533]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-24080]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Chesapeake Bay Special Resource Study

AGENCY: National Park Service.

ACTION: Notice of Intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement 
and to Hold Public Scoping Meetings for the Chesapeake Bay Special 
Resource Study.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the intent to prepare an environmental 
impact statement and hold public scoping meetings for the Chesapeake 
Bay Special Resource Study.
    The Fiscal Year 1999 appropriations bill for the Department of the 
Interior and related agencies included direction to the National Park 
Service to conduct a Chesapeake Bay Special Resource Study. The purpose 
of the study is to explore the appropriateness of representing 
additional Chesapeake Bay resource areas within the national park 
system and determine whether this would help advance the partnership 
effort to conserve and restore the Chesapeake Bay; to determine what 
type of resource(s) and concept(s) might be appropriate, if any; and to 
make recommendations to Congress regarding these findings. Such 
recommendations will focus on overall concepts and criteria, rather 
than evaluating specific sites. Direct input from political, 
environmental, business and community leaders, as well as local 
citizens, will help develop these concepts and criteria.
    Four public meetings will be held in September 2002 to discuss the 
Chesapeake Bay Special Resource Study being undertaken by the National 
Park Service and to conduct scoping for an associated Environmental 
Impact Statement. The study is authorized by the fiscal year 1999 
appropriations bill for the Department of the Interior. For information 
on specific meeting dates and locations may be obtained from http://www.chesapeakestudy.org or by contacting Jonathan Doherty, National 
Park Service Chesapeake Bay Program Office, 410 Severn Avenue, Suite 
109, Annapolis, MD 21403, 410 267 5725, [email protected].

    Dated: June 27, 2002.
Pat Phelan,
Acting Director, Northeast Region.
[FR Doc. 02-24080 Filed 9-20-02; 8:45 am]
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