[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 141 (Wednesday, July 23, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43544-43545]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-18698]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Availability of a Finding of No Significant Impact for 
the 2003 Telecommunications Facilities Environmental Assessment, Rock 
Creek Park, Washington, DC

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 
Telecommunications Act of 1996, and the July 2002, Order of the U.S. 
District Court for the District of Columbia in Audubon Naturalist 
Society of the Central Atlantic States, Inc. et al. v. National Park 
Service (NPS) and Bell Atlantic Mobile, Inc., the National Park Service 
prepared and made available for a 36-day public review an Environmental 
Assessment (EA) evaluating the potential impacts to the human and 
natural environment from two existing cellular communications towers 
located within Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC.
    After the end of the 36-day public review period, the NPS selected 
for implementation, the preferred alternative as described in the EA, 
and determined that implementation of the preferred alternative will 
not have a significant impact on the quality of the human environment 
and that an environmental impact statement is not required. In making 
that selection and determination, the NPS considered the information 
and analysis contained in the EA and the comments received during the 
public review period. The NPS has prepared a Finding of No Significant 
Impact (FONSI) for the project. The NPS' decision was filed with the 
court pursuant to a June 20, 2003 court deadline.
    The selected alternative allows the continued operation of the two 
wireless telecommunications facilities as presently located, with the 
NPS developing a park-wide telecommunications plan and a monitoring 
program for migratory birds.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Copies of the FONSI are available at http://www.nps.gov/rocr and the following public libraries: Martin Luther King 
Memorial Library, 901 G Street NW., Washington, DC 20001; Chevy Chase 
Library, 5625 Connecticut Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20015; Cleveland 
Park Library, 3310 Connecticut Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20008; 
Georgetown Library, 3260 R Street NW., Washington, DC 20007; Juanita 
Thorton Shepard Park Branch Library, 7420 Georgia Avenue NW., 
Washington, DC 20012; Langston Community Library, 2600 Bennet Road NE., 
Washington, DC 20019; Mt.

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Pleasant Library, 1600 Lamont Street NW., Washington, DC 20010; 
Northeast Branch Library, 330 7th Street NE., Washington, DC 20002; 
Petworth Branch Library, 4200 Kansas Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20011; 
Tenly-Friendship Branch Library, 4450 Wisconsin Avenue NW., Washington, 
DC 20016; Watha T. Daniel Library, 1701 8th Street NW., Washington, DC 
20001; Woodbridge Library, 1801 Hamlin Street NE., Washington, DC 
20018; Library of Congress, 101 Independence Avenue SE., Washington, DC 
20540; Palisades, 4901 V Street NW., Washington, DC 20007; Sursum Corda 
Community Library, 135 New York Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20001. You 
may also request a hard copy at (202) 895-6000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Adrienne Coleman, Superintendent, Rock 
Creek Park, at 3545 Williamsburg Lane NW., Washington, DC 20008-1207, 
or by telephone at (202) 895-6004.

    Dated: June 20, 2003.
Terry R. Carlstrom,
Regional Director, National Capital Region.
[FR Doc. 03-18698 Filed 7-22-03; 8:45 am]
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