[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 133 (Friday, July 11, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41399-41400]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-17548]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Long Walk National Historic Trail Study, Environmental Impact 
Statement, Arizona, New Mexico

AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement 
for the Long Walk National Historic Trail Study.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42 
U.S.C. 4332(C), the National Park Service (NPS) is preparing an 
Environmental Impact Statement for the Long Walk National Historic 
Trail Study, Arizona and New Mexico. This effort will result in a study 
that recommends to Congress whether the Long Walk of the Mescalero 
Apache and Navajo People should be designated a national historic 
trail. It will also propose alternative means of commemoration should 
it not be recommended for national historic trail designation. The plan 
will be developed in consultation with the Mescalero Apache Tribe, the 
Navajo Nation, the associated American Indian Tribes in the southwest, 
local communities along the routes of the Long Walk, other federal and 
state agencies and all other interested and affected organizations and 
individuals. The area involved includes but is not limited to: the 
Navajo Reservation in northeastern Arizona from the Grand Canyon area 
east to the New Mexico state line including Chinle and Window Rock, 
Arizona. The area in New Mexico includes but is not limited to: the 
vicinity of Gallup, Grants, Bosque Farms, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, 
Galisteo, Las Vegas, Fort Union National Monument, Anton Chico, Fort 
Sumner, and Mescalero, New Mexico. Alternatives to be considered 
include no-action, designation as a national historic trail, 
alternative means of commemoration other than national historic trail 
designation, and other ideas that come out of the public process.
    Major issues include: routes of the Long Walk, resources to be 
preserved along the route, whether the Mescalero Apache Tribe and the 
Navajo Nation are in favor of national historic trail designation, and 
how best to preserve and interpret the related events of that period.
    A scoping newsletter has been prepared that gives times, places, 
and dates of public meetings that will be held on the study. It also 
details the issues identified to date. Copies of that newsletter may be 
obtained from Harry Myers, NPS, P.O. Box 728, 1100 Old Santa Fe Trail, 
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-0728, (505) 988-6717, [email protected].

DATES: The Park Service will accept comments from the public through 
August 11, 2003.

ADDRESSES: Information will be available for public review and comment 
in the office of the Superintendent, and at the following locations: 
Jere Krakow, Superintendent, IMR National Trails System Office, P.O. 
Box 728, 1100 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-0728, 
(505) 988-6888.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Harry Myers, P.O. Box 728, Santa Fe, 
New Mexico 87504-0728, (505) 988-6717, [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: If you wish to comment on the scoping 
brochure or on any other issues associated with the plan, you may 
submit your comments by any one of

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several methods. You may mail comments to Harry Myers, National Trails 
System Office--Santa Fe, P.O. Box 728, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-0728. 
You may also comment via the Internet to [email protected]. Please 
submit Internet comments as an ASCII file avoiding the use of special 
characters and any form of encryption. Please also include ``Attn: Long 
Walk'' and 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 at National Trails System 
Office--Santa Fe, (505) 988-6717. Finally, you may hand-deliver 
comments to National Park Service, Old Santa Fe Trail Building Room 
116, 1100 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501. 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 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.

    Dated: June 9, 2003.
Michael D. Snyder,
Deputy Director, Intermountain Region, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 03-17548 Filed 7-10-03; 8:45 am]
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