[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 61 (Wednesday, April 1, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14819-14820]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-7058]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks; Receipt of Application 
for Telecommunication Site

AGENCY: National Park Service, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, 
Interior

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: (Authorities: 47 U.S.C. 332 note (Telecommunications Act of 
1996, Section 704(c)); 16 U.S.C. 5; other applicable authorities and 
National Park Service (NPS) Director's Order 53) Sequoia and Kings 
Canyon National Parks has received an application from Verizon Wireless 
to construct an eighty foot tall, cellular tower with associated 
support structures and equipment. The location of the proposed 
telecommunication site is Park Ridge, near Grant Grove within Kings 
Canyon National Park. Park Ridge is an established telecommunications 
site for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Current structures on 
Park Ridge include: two concrete block structures containing NPS and 
U.S. Forest Service (USFS) communications equipment with power 
generators; a twenty foot fire lookout tower; two forty foot lattice 
towers with NPS and USFS telecommunications equipment; and a thirty 
foot tower on the NPS communications building supporting a passive 
reflector used for landline service operated by Verizon California.
    The proposed Verizon telecommunication site may include a tower 
approximately 80 feet tall, an equipment building and necessary 
utilities. The staff at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks is 
currently evaluating the proposal and conducting a review and analysis 
pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the National 
Historic Preservation Act, The Telecommunications Act of 1996, and 
National Park Service requirements, policy and regulations. Once 
completed the NEPA analysis including the effects, if any, on cultural 
resources will be available for public review.

DATES: Review and analysis pursuant to NEPA and the National Historic 
Preservation Act, initiated in December of 2008 is currently being 
conducted by Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and will be 
completed after May 1, 2009.

ADDRESSES: Comments on the proposal may be mailed to the park, Sequoia 
and Kings Canyon National Park, Planning and Compliance Office, 47050 
Generals

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Highway, Three Rivers, CA 93271 or e-mailed to [email protected].
    Copies of the completed NEPA analysis will be available at the 
Office of the Superintendent Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, 
online at the Web site http://parkplanning.gov.nps/seki, or can be 
requested by writing to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, 
Planning and Compliance Office, 47050 Generals Highway, Three Rivers, 
CA 93271, or by e-mail addressed to [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christine Smith, 559-565-3105

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Comments

    Before including an address, phone number, e-mail address or other 
personal identifying information in your comment, you should be aware 
that your entire comment including your personal identifying 
information may be made publicly available at any time. While you can 
ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying 
information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be 
able to do so. Anonymous comments will not be accepted.

    Dated: February 9, 2009.
Daniel E. Blackwell,
Acting Superintendent, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
 [FR Doc. E9-7058 Filed 3-31-09; 8:45 am]
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