[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 228 (Tuesday, November 29, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71555-71556]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-23382]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Availability of the Draft General Management Plan and 
Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Pea Ridge National Military 
Park, AR

AGENCY: National Park Service.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969, the National Park Service (NPS) announces the 
availability of the draft general management plan and environmental 
impact statement (GMP/EIS) for Pea Ridge National Military Park (Park).

DATES: The GMP/EIS will remain available for public review for 60 days 
following the publishing of the notice of availability in the Federal 
Register by the Environmental Protection Agency. Public meetings will 
be held at the Park visitor center, Arkansas. Meeting places and times 
will be announced through the local media and on the Park Web site at: 
http://www.nps.gov.gov/peri.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the GMP/EIS are available by request by writing to 
the superintendent at Pea Ridge National Military Park, 15930 Highway 
62, Garfield, Arkansas, 72732. The document is also available to be 
reviewed in person at park headquarters with an appointment, which can 
be scheduled at 479-451-8122. Finally, the document can be found on the 
Internet at: http://parkplanning.nps.gov/. This Web site allows the 
public to review and comment directly on this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Superintendent, Pea Ridge National 
Military Park, 15930 Highway 62, Garfield, Arkansas, 72732.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Park is a unit of the national park 
system and was established to commemorate the national significance of 
the Battle of Pea Ridge, the largest Civil War battle fought west of 
the Mississippi. The Park protects and preserves nearly 90 percent of 
the actual battlefield.
    The draft GMP/EIS describes and analyzes the environmental impacts 
of the proposed management action (preferred alternative) and two other 
action alternatives for the future management direction of the Park, 
including the impacts of the boundary modifications. A no-action 
management alternative is also evaluated.
    Persons wishing to comment may do so by any one of several methods. 
They may attend the public meetings noted above. They may mail comments 
to the Pea Ridge Planning Team, National Park Service, Denver Service 
Center, P.O. Box 25287, Denver, Colorado 80225. They also may comment 
via the Internet at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/. Finally, they may 
hand-deliver comments to the Pea Ridge National Military Park 
headquarters at 15930 Highway 62, Garfield, Arkansas, 72732.
    Our practice is to make comments, including names and home 
addresses of respondents, available for public review. Individual 
respondents may request that we withhold their home address from the 
record, which we will honor to the extent allowable by law. There may 
also be circumstances where 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. 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 or organizations or businesses, available 
for public inspection in their entirety.
    The responsible official is Ernest Quintana, Regional Director, 
Midwest Region.

    Dated: October 20, 2005.
Ernest Quintana,
Regional Director, Midwest Region.
[FR Doc. 05-23382 Filed 11-28-05; 8:45 am]
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