[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 30 (Friday, February 13, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 7253]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-3142]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Lake Meredith National Recreation Area and Alibates Flint 
Quarries National Monument, Fritch, TX

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Availability of a Plan of Operations, an 
Environmental Assessment, and a Statement of Findings for a 30-day 
public review at Lake Meredith National Recreation Area and Alibates 
Flint Quarries National Monument, Hutchinson County, Moore County, and 
Potter County, Texas.

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SUMMARY: The National Park Service (NPS), in accordance with Sec. 
9.52(b) of Title 36 of the Code of Federal Regulations and Executive 
Order 11988, Floodplain Management, has received from Pioneer Natural 
Resources USA a Plan of Operations for the continued operations of 
forty-four natural gas wells, Re-entry to Drill Horizontal Laterals on 
twenty-four gas wells, and drill one new gas well at Lake Meredith 
National Recreation Area and Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument. 
Additionally, the NPS has adopted a contractor prepared Environmental 
Assessment for the Plan of Operations and prepared a Statement of 
Findings for those natural gas wells located within the 500-year flood 
event elevation and the 100-year flood event elevations.

DATES: The Plan of Operations, an Environmental Assessment, and the 
Statement of Findings are available for public review and comment for a 
period of 30-days from the publication date of this notice in the 
Federal Register.

ADDRESSES: The Plan of Operations, an Environmental Assessment, and the 
Statement of Findings are available for public review and comment in 
the Office of the Superintendent, Lake Meredith National Recreation 
Area, 419 E. Broadway, Fritch, Texas. Copies are available, for a 
duplication fee, from the Superintendent, Lake Meredith National 
Recreation Area, P.O. Box 1460, Fritch, Texas 79306-1460.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Eubank, Environmental Protection 
Specialist, Lake Meredith National Recreation Area and Alibates Flint 
Quarries National Monument, P.O. Box 1460, Fritch, Texas 79036, 
Telephone: 806-865-3874.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: If you wish to comment, you may submit 
comments by mailing them to the post office address provided above, or 
you may hand-deliver comments to the park at the street address 
provided above. Our practice is to make comments, including names and 
home addresses of responders, available for public review during 
regular business hours. Individual respondents may request that we 
withhold their home address from the decision-making record, which we 
will honor to the extent allowable by law. There also may be 
circumstances in which we would withhold from the decision-making 
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 
comments. 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.

Karren C. Brown,
Superintendent.
[FR Doc. 04-3142 Filed 2-12-04; 8:45 am]
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