[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 139 (Thursday, July 21, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42098-42099]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-14355]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


General Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement, 
Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Illinois

AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

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ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement 
for the general management plan, Lincoln Home National Historic Site.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42 
U.S.C. 4332(C), the National Park Service is preparing an environmental 
impact statement for a general management plan for Lincoln Home 
National Historic Site (LIHO). 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 at LIHO 
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 
site'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: Issues 
surrounding preserving park resources (such as developing management 
strategies to preserve and maintain historic structures and cultural 
landscapes and protect archaeological sites in the face of a predicted 
increase in visitation); issues surrounding visitor understanding, 
education and appreciation of park resources (such as enhancing and 
expanding meaningful visitor experiences as alternatives to the LIHO 
tour); and, issues surrounding organizational effectiveness (such as 
identifying potential partnerships with the city of Springfield, the 
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum and others).
    Dates: Any comments on the scope of issues to be addressed in the 
EIS should be received no later than November 15. 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 LIHO Web site (http://www.nps.gov/liho), on the 
National Park Service 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, 
413 South Eighth Street, Springfield, IL 62701-1905.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Acting Superintendent, Lincoln Home 
National Historic Site, 413 South Eighth Street, Springfield, IL 62701-
1905. 217-492-4241.

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 Lincoln Home National 
Historic Site, 413 South Eighth Street, Springfield, IL 62701-1905. 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 413 South 
Eighth Street in Springfield, IL.
    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: June 8, 2005.
Ernest Quintana,
Regional Director, Midwest Region.
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