[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 140 (Friday, July 21, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41466-41467]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-6322]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Construction of New Utah Museum of Natural History, Draft 
Environmental Impact Statement, Salt Lake County, UT

AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability of the Draft Environmental Impact 
Statement

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for the construction and operation of a proposed new Utah Museum of 
Natural History at the University of Utah.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42 
U.S.C. 4332(2)(C), the National Park Service and the University of Utah 
announce the availability of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for 
the Construction and Operation of a Proposed New Utah Museum of Natural 
History at the University of Utah, Salt Lake County, Utah.

DATES: The University of Utah and the National Park Service will accept 
comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement from the public 
through September 19, 2006. A public meeting will be held at a time, 
data, and place to be announced. Public meeting information will be 
posted on the project Web site (see url below).

ADDRESSES: Information will be available for public review and comment 
online at http://www.umnh.utah.edu, (click on About UMNH, New Building 
Updates, Environmental Impact Statement), or at Bear West Company, 145 
South 400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111, phone 801-355-8816.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ralph Becker, 145 South 400 East, Salt 
Lake City, Utah 84111, 801-355-8816, e-mail [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: If you wish to comment, you may submit your 
comments by any one of several methods. You may mail comments to UMNH 
EIS, c/o Bear West, 145 South 400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111. You 
may also comment via e-mail to [email protected]. If you do not 
receive a confirmation that your e-mail message was received, contact 
us directly by calling Bridger Call at 801-355-8816. Finally, you may 
hand-deliver comments to Bear West, 145 South 400 East, Salt Lake City, 
Utah 84111. Our practice is to make comments, including names, home 
addresses, home phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of respondents, 
available for public review. Individual respondents may request that we 
withhold their names and/or home addresses, etc., but if you wish us to 
consider withholding this information you must state this prominently 
at the beginning of your comments. In addition, you must present a 
rationale for withholding this information. This rationale must 
demonstrate that disclosure would constitute a clearly unwarranted 
invasion of privacy. Unsupported assertions will not meet this burden. 
In the absence of exceptional, documentable circumstances, this 
information will be released. We will always make submissions from 
organizations or businesses, and from individuals identifying 
themselves as representatives of or officials of organizations or 
businesses, available for public inspection in their entirety.

    Dated: July 13, 2006.
Michael D. Snyder,
Director, Intermountain Region, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 06-6322 Filed 7-20-06; 8:45 am]
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