[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 153 (Thursday, August 9, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 44856]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-15562]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Ecological Restoration Plan, Final Environmental Impact 
Statement, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico

AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact 
Statement for the Ecological Restoration Plan, Bandelier National 
Monument.

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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 announces the availability 
of a Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Ecological 
Restoration Plan for Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico. 
Alternative B was selected as the park's preferred alternative; it 
maximizes work efficiency and minimizes resource impacts by 
implementing restoration treatments in the most systematic and timely 
fashion possible given available funding. The purpose of the Ecological 
Restoration Plan is to re-establish healthy, sustainable vegetative 
conditions within the pinon-juniper woodland and to mitigate soil 
erosion that threatens the cultural resources for which Bandelier 
National Monument was established and specifically set aside to 
preserve.

DATES: The National Park Service will execute a Record of Decision 
(ROD) no sooner than 30 days following publication by the Environmental 
Protection Agency of the Notice of Availability of the Final 
Environmental Impact Statement.

ADDRESSES: Information will be available for public review and comment 
online at http://parkplanning.nps.gov and in the office of the 
Superintendent, Darlene Koontz, Bandelier National Monument, 15 
Entrance Road, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544, 505-672-3861, extension 
502.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Mack, Chief of Resource 
Management, Bandelier National Monument, 15 Entrance Road, Los Alamos, 
New Mexico 87544, 505-672-3861, extension 540, [email protected].

    Dated: July 31, 2007.
John T. Crowley,
Acting Regional Director, Intermountain Region, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. E7-15562 Filed 8-8-07; 8:45 am]
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