[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 107 (Monday, June 6, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 32847]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-11140]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


General Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement, 
Effigy Mounds National Monument, IA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement 
for the general management plan, Effigy Mounds National Monument.

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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 a general management plan for Effigy 
Mounds National Monument, Iowa. The environmental impact statement will 
be approved by the Director, Midwest Region.
    The general management plan will prescribe the resource conditions 
and visitor experiences that are to be achieved and maintained in the 
monument over the next 15 to 20 years. The clarification of what must 
be achieved according to law and policy will be based on review of the 
monument's purpose, significance, special mandates, and the body of 
laws and policies directing park management. Based on determinations of 
desired conditions, the general management plan will outline the kinds 
of resource management activities, visitor activities, and development 
that would be appropriate in the future. A range of reasonable 
management alternatives will be developed through this planning process 
and will include, at a minimum, no-action and the preferred 
alternative.
    Major issues to be addressed in the plan include: Cultural and 
natural resources of the park, visitor use of facilities and programs, 
staff access for resource patrols and visitor protection, trail 
development, vegetation control, management of threatened and 
endangered species, management of the Yellow River, and land 
protection.

DATES: Any comments on the scope of issues to be addressed in the EIS 
should be received no later than December 30, 2005. Public meetings 
regarding the general management plan will be held during the scoping 
period. Specific dates, times, and locations will be made available in 
the local media, on the Effigy Mounds National Monument Web site 
(http://www.nps.gov/efmo), on the NPS Planning, Environment and Public 
Comment (PEPC) Web site (parkplanning.nps.gov/publicHome.cfm), or by 
contacting the Superintendent.

ADDRESSES: Information on the planning process and copies of 
newsletters will be available from the office of the Superintendent, 
151 Highway 76, Harpers Ferry, Iowa 52146-7519.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Superintendent Phyllis Ewing, Effigy 
Mounds National Monument, 151 Highway 76, Harpers Ferry, Iowa 52146-
7519, telephone 563-873-3491.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: If you wish to comment on any issues 
associated with the plan, you may submit your comments by any one of 
several methods. You may mail comments to: Effigy Mounds National 
Monument, 151 Highway 76, Harpers Ferry, Iowa 52146-7519. You may also 
comment via e-mail to [email protected]. Please submit e-
mail comments as a text file avoiding the use of special characters and 
any form of encryption. Be sure to include your name and return street 
address in your Internet message. You may provide comments 
electronically by entering them into the PEPC Web site at the address 
above. Finally, you may hand-deliver comments to the monument 
headquarters located three miles north of Marquette, Iowa, on Highway 
76.
    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: April 29, 2005.
Ernest Quintana,
Director, Midwest Region.
[FR Doc. 05-11140 Filed 6-3-05; 8:45 am]
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