[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 137 (Monday, July 19, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 41881]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-17462]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Intent To Prepare a Shoreline Restoration and 
Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Indiana Dunes 
National Lakeshore, Indiana

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)), the National Park Service 
(NPS) is announcing its intent to prepare an environmental impact 
statement (EIS) for a Shoreline Restoration and Management Plan (SRMP) 
for Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore (Park), Indiana. The EIS will be 
approved by the Regional Director, Midwest Region.
    The SRMP will prescribe the resource conditions and restoration 
activities that are to be achieved and maintained for the shoreline 
over the next 15 to 20 years. The SRMP will outline what must be 
achieved based on review of the Park's purpose, significance, special 
mandates, and the body of laws and policies that direct Park 
administration. Based on determinations of restoration endpoints 
necessary to achieve the NPS mission in context of the southern Lake 
Michigan Shoreline, the SRMP will outline the kinds of resource 
management and restoration activities that would be appropriate in the 
future. A range of reasonable management alternatives will be developed 
and the quantitative and science-based impacts will be assessed through 
this planning process and will include, at a minimum, no-action and the 
preferred alternative.
    Major issues to be addressed in the SRMP include: Restoration or 
replication of natural shoreline sand movement; foredune/dune 
restoration and management; limiting or removing terrestrial and 
aquatic invasive species threats to the lakeshore; and improved water 
quality.

DATES: Any comments on the scope of issues to be addressed in the EIS 
can be received at any time after the publication of this notice in the 
FR. Public meetings regarding the EIS will be held during the scoping 
period. Specific dates, times, and locations will be made available in 
the local media; on the Park Web site (http://www.nps.gov/indu); on the 
NPS Planning, Environment and Public Comment (PEPC) Web site (http://parkplanning.nps.gov/indu); or by contacting the Superintendent at the 
address and telephone number below.

ADDRESSES: Information on the planning process will be available from 
the Superintendent, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore 1100 N. Mineral 
Springs Road, Porter, Indiana 46304, telephone 219-926-7561.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: If you wish to comment on any issues 
associated with the EIS, you may submit your comments by any one of 
several methods. You may mail comments to the Park, or deliver them 
directly to the Park, at the address above. Finally, you may provide 
comments electronically by entering them into the PEPC Web site at the 
address above.
    Before including your address, telephone number, email address, or 
other personal identifying information in your comments, 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 comments to withhold your personal identifying 
information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be 
able to do so.

    Dated: June 2, 2010.
Ernest Quintana,
Regional Director, Midwest Region.
[FR Doc. 2010-17462 Filed 7-16-10; 8:45 am]
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