[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 244 (Thursday, December 20, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72373-72374]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-6102]


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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 a Record of Decision on 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 the Record of Decision for the Ecological Restoration Plan for 
Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico. On September 18, 2007, the 
Regional Director, Intermountain Region, approved the Record of 
Decision for the project. As soon as practicable, the National Park 
Service will begin to implement the Preferred Alternative contained in 
the FEIS issued on August 17, 2007. 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. This course of action, the no-action alternative, and one 
action alternative were analyzed in the Draft and Final Environmental 
Impact Statements. Alternative C focused on treating sub-basins 
containing the highest priority cultural resource sites within 
pi[ntilde]on-juniper woodland. The full range of foreseeable 
environmental consequences was assessed, and appropriate mitigating 
measures were identified. The Record of Decision includes a statement 
of the decision

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made, synopses of other alternatives considered, the basis for the 
decision, a description of the environmentally preferable alternative, 
a finding of no impairment of park resources and values, a listing of 
measures to minimize environmental harm, and an overview of public 
involvement in the decision-making process.

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].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Copies of the Record of Decision may be 
obtained from the contact listed above or online at http://parkplanning.nps.gov.

    Dated: September 18, 2007.
Michael D. Snyder,
Regional Director, Intermountain Region, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 07-6102 Filed 12-19-07; 8:45 am]
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