[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 151 (Wednesday, August 6, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46660-46661]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-19961]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


General Management Plan, Draft Environmental Impact Statement, 
Coronado National Memorial, Arizona

AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Availability of a Draft Environmental Impact 
Statement/ General Management Plan, Coronado National Memorial.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42 
U.S.C. 4332 (C) the National Park Service announces the availability of 
a Draft Environmental Impact Statement and General Management Plan 
(DEIS/GMP) for Coronado National Memorial, Arizona.

DATES: The DEIS/GMP will remain available for public review for 60 days 
following the date of this notice. No public meetings are scheduled at 
this time.
    Comments: If you wish to comment you may submit your comments by 
any one of several methods. You may mail comments to Superintendent, 
Dale Thompson, Coronado National Memorial, 4101 East Montezuma Canyon 
Road, Hereford, AZ 85615. You may comment via the Internet to at http://planning.nps.gov/plans.cfm. Please submit Internet comments as an 
ASCII file avoiding the use of special characters and any form of 
encryption. Please also include ``Attn: GMP Team'' 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, you can contact Superintendent Dale Thompson directly at 
telephone (520) 366-5515 or Job Captain John Paige at telephone (303) 
969-9721. Finally you may hand-deliver your comments to park 
headquarters, 4101 East Montezuma Canyon road, Hereford, Arizona. 
Comments should be received no later than 60 days from the publication 
of this Notice of Availability. Our practice is to make comments, 
including names and home addresses of respondents, available for public 
review during regular business hours. Individual respondents may

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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. 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.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the DEIS/GMP are available from the 
Superintendent, Dale Thompson, Coronado National Memorial, 4101 East 
Montezuma Road, Hereford, AZ 85615. Public reading copies of the DEIS/
GMP will be available for review at the following locations:
    Coronado National Memorial Visitor Center, Coronado National 
Memorial, 4101 East Montezuma Road, Hereford, AZ 85615, Telephone: 
(520) 366-5515.
    Planning and Environmental Quality, Intermountain Support Office--
Denver, National Park Service, 12795 West Alameda Parkway, P.O. Box 
25287, Denver, CO 80225-0287, Telephone: (303) 969-2851 [or (303) 969-
2377].
    Office of Public Affairs, National Park Service, Department of the 
Interior, 18th and C Streets NW., Room 7012, Washington, DC 20240, 
Telephone: (202) 208-6843.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The DEIS/GMP analyzes a ``no-action'' 
alternative and four ``action'' alternatives:
    [sbull] Alternative A (no-action) represents the continuation of 
existing conditions and management at the park.
    [sbull] Alternative B (the NPS preferred alternative)--the visitor 
center would be rehabilitated, with an annex added for more office 
space and storage. New trails would be developed, and pullouts and 
waysides would be added to roads. Programs would help visitors 
understand the Coronado Expedition and its impact on the American 
Southwest. Grazing in the memorial would be ended.
    [sbull] Alternative C--would focus on conserving cultural and 
natural resources. The visitor center's interior would be remodeled to 
make more space for interpretation. Grazing in the memorial would be 
ended.
    [sbull] Alternative D--the memorial's international aspects would 
be emphasized. A structure would be built to commemorate the Coronado 
Expedition, and an educational center would be developed in the 
Montezuma ranch area. The visitor center would be expanded and 
rehabilitated. Grazing would continue in the Joe's Spring allotment, 
but not in the Montezuma allotment.
    [sbull] Alternative E--A new visitor/educational center, to which 
visitors could drive on a paved two-lane road and enjoy a panoramic 
view of the San Pedro valley and the United States-Mexico border. The 
visitor center would be converted into administrative offices. Grazing 
would be eliminated from the Joe's Spring allotment.
    The DEIS/GMP evaluates the environmental consequences of the 
proposed action and the other alternatives on natural resources (e.g., 
air quality, cave resources, soils; vegetation; wildlife; water 
quantity; and threatened and endangered species); cultural resources 
(e.g. archeological resources, ethnographic resources, historic 
structures, and cultural landscapes); the visitor experience (e.g. 
visitors' experience of park resources, and access to orientation and 
interpretive information); and socioeconomic resources (e.g. 
recreational use, grazing, and the local and regional economy).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Superintendent, Dale Thompson or Job 
Captain John Paige at the above addresses and telephone numbers.

    Dated: June 20, 2003.
Karen P. Wade,
Director, Intermountain Region, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 03-19961 Filed 8-5-03; 8:45 am]
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