[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 122 (Wednesday, June 25, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37861-37862]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-15976]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Draft Chesapeake Bay Special Resource Study/EIS 
Availability

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Availability of draft Chesapeake Bay Special Resource Study/
Environmental Impact Statement.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2) of the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969, the National Park Service (NPS) announces the 
availability of the draft Chesapeake Bay Special Resource Study and 
Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS).
    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 Special Resource Study to: (a) Examine whether 
having additional Chesapeake Bay resources within the National Park 
System would make sense and would advance partnership efforts to 
conserve and celebrate the Chesapeake Bay; (b) define whether there are 
concepts or ways that areas of the Bay might fit appropriately within 
the diverse National Park System; and (c) make recommendations to 
Congress regarding these findings. The draft Chesapeake Bay Special 
Resource Study/DEIS outlines a no-action alternative and four 
conceptual alternatives for how the Chesapeake Bay might be represented 
within the National Park System.

DATES: There will be a 60-day public review period for comments on this 
document. Comments on the DEIS may be submitted but be received no 
later than 60 days after publication of this notice in the Federal 
Register. Public open houses for information about, or to make contract 
on, the DEIS will be announced in Chesapeake Bay region media, a 
newsletter and the study Web site when they are scheduled. Information 
about meeting times and locations will be available by contacting the 
NPS Chesapeake Bay Program Office at 800 YOUR BAY (968-7229) or 
visiting the study Web site at: www.chesapeakestudy.org. Comments may 
also be submitted in writing or electronically via the study Web site 
(see ADDRESS below).

ADDRESSES: Copies of the DEIS are available upon request by writing to 
NPS Chesapeake Bay Program Office, 410 Severn Avenue, Suite 109, 
Annapolis MD 21403, by phone at 800 YOUR BAY (968-7229), or by e-mail 
to [email protected]. A

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downloadable on-line version of the document is available at: 
www.chesapeakestudy.org.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Director, NPS Chesapeake Bay Program 
Office, 410 Severn Avenue, Suite 109, Annapolis MD, 21403, or 800 YOUR 
BAY (968-7229).
    It is National Park Service practice to make comments, including 
names and addresses of respondents, available for public review. 
Individual respondents may request that we withhold their address from 
the record, which we will honor to the extent allowable by law. 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: April 9, 2003.
Dale Ditmanson,
Acting Director, Northeast Region.
[FR Doc. 03-15976 Filed 6-24-03; 8:45 am]
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