[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 141 (Wednesday, July 23, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 43545]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-18696]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Availability of a Final Environmental Impact Statement 
for Schuylkill River Valley National Heritage, Management Plan Update

AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of Interior.

ACTION: Availability of the final environmental impact statement for 
the Schuylkill River Valley National Heritage Area Management Plan 
Update.

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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 Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for 
Schuylkill River Valley National Heritage Area Management Plan Update. 
The Schuylkill River Valley National Heritage Area Act of 2000 required 
the Schuylkill River Greenway Association, with guidance from the 
National Park Service, to prepare an update of their 1995 Schuylkill 
Heritage Corridor Management Action Plan. The Management Plan Update 
includes: (A) Actions to be undertaken by units of government and 
private organizations to protect the resources of the Heritage Area; 
(B) an inventory of the resources contained in the Heritage Area, 
including a list of any property in the Heritage Area that is related 
to the themes of the Heritage Area and that should be preserved, 
restored, managed, developed, or maintained because of its natural, 
cultural, historical, recreational, or scenic significance; (C) a 
recommendation of policies for resource management that considers and 
details application of appropriate land and water management 
techniques, including the development of intergovernmental cooperative 
agreements to protect the historical, cultural, recreational, and 
natural resources of the Heritage Area in a manner consistent with 
supporting appropriate and compatible economic viability; (D) a program 
for implementation of the management plan by the management entity, (E) 
an analysis of ways in which local, State, and Federal programs are to 
be coordinated to promote the purposes of this title, and (F) an 
interpretation plan for the Heritage Area.
    The study area, designated as the Schuylkill River Valley National 
Heritage, includes parts of the counties of: Schuylkill, Berks, 
Chester, Montgomery and Philadelphia in southeastern Pennsylvania as 
associated with the Schuylkill River watershed.
    The National Park Service (NPS) maintains two park sites within the 
region: Valley Forge National Historical Park and the Hopewell Furnace 
National Historic site. Otherwise the majority of land is non-federal 
and the NPS assumes a management role only within their park units. 
Instead, conservation, interpretation and other activities are managed 
by partnerships among federal, state, and local governments and private 
nonprofit organizations. The Schuylkill River Greenway Association 
manages the national heritage area. The National Park Service has been 
authorized by Congress to provide technical and financial assistance 
for a limited period (up to 10 years from the time of the designation 
in 2000).

DATES: The FEIS will remain on Public Review for thirty days from the 
publication of the notice in the Federal Register by the Environmental 
Protection Agency.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peter Samuel, Project Leader, 
Northeast Region, National Park Service, US 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 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 19, 2003.
Marie Rust,
Regional Director, Northeast Region.
[FR Doc. 03-18696 Filed 7-22-03; 8:45 am]
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