[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 209 (Monday, October 30, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63350-63351]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-8951]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Intent To Prepare a Draft Environmental Impact 
Statement for the General Management Plan for Kings Mountain National 
Military Park, Blacksburg, SC

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969, requirements of the National Parks and Recreation 
Act of 1978, Public Law 95-625, and National Park Service Policy in 
Director's Order Number 2 (Park Planning) and Director's Order Number 
12 (Conservation Planning, Environmental Impact Analysis, and Decision-
making) the National Park Service (NPS) will prepare an Environmental 
Impact Statement for the General Management Plan (EIS/GMP) for Kings 
Mountain National Military Park (KIMO) located near Blacksburg, South 
Carolina. The authority for publishing this notice is contained in 40 
CFR 1501.7. The statement will assess potential environmental impacts 
associated with various types and levels of visitor use and resources 
management within KIMO.
    The NPS is currently accepting comments from interested parties on 
issues, concerns, and suggestions pertinent to the management of KIMO. 
Suggestions and ideas for managing the cultural and natural resources 
and visitor experiences at KIMO are encouraged. Comments may be 
submitted in writing to the address listed at the end of this notice or 
through the NPS Planning, Environment, and Public Comment (PEPC) Web 
site, which is linked to the park's Web site at http://www.nps.gov/kimo.
    The NPS will publish periodic newsletters on the PEPC Web site to 
present scoping issues and preliminary management concepts to the 
public as they are developed. Public meetings to present draft 
management concepts will be conducted in the local area. Specific 
locations, dates, and times will be announced in local media and on the 
PEPC Web site.

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    If you wish to comment, you may submit your comments by any one of 
several methods. You may mail comments to Superintendent, Kings 
Mountain National Military Park, 2625 Park Road, Blacksburg, South 
Carolina 20702, telephone: 864-936-7921. You may also comment via the 
Internet to http://parkplanning.nps.gov/parkHome.cfm?parkId=390. Please 
submit internet comments as a plain text file, avoiding the use of 
special characters and any form of encryption. If you do not receive a 
confirmation from the system that we have received your internet 
message, contact us directly at 404-562-3124, extension 685. Finally, 
you may hand-deliver comments to Kings Mountain National Military Park, 
2625 Park Road, Blacksburg, South Carolina 20702.
    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.

DATES:  Locations, dates, and times of public meetings will be 
published in local newspapers and may also be obtained by contacting 
the NPS Southeast Regional Office, Division of Planning and Compliance. 
This information will also be published on the GMP Web site for KIMO.

ADDRESSES: Scoping suggestions should be submitted to the following 
addresses to ensure adequate consideration by the NPS: Superintendent, 
Kings Mountain National Military Park, 2625 Park Road, Blacksburg, 
South Carolina, Telephone: 864-936-7921.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Superintendent, Kings Mountain 
National Military Park, 2625 Park Road, Blacksburg, South Carolina, 
telephone: 864-936-7921.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Draft and Final GMP/EIS will be made 
available to all known interested parties and appropriate agencies. 
Full public participation by Federal, State, and local agencies as well 
as other concerned organizations and private citizens is invited 
throughout the preparation process of this document.
    The responsible official for this Environmental Impact Statement is 
the Regional Director for the Southeast Region, Patricia A. Hooks.

    Dated: September 11, 2006.
Patricia A. Hooks,
Regional Director, Southeast Region.
[FR Doc. 06-8951 Filed 10-27-06; 8:45 am]
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