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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. All submissions from
organizations and businesses, and from
individuals identifying themselves as
representatives or officials of
organizations or businesses, will be
available for public inspection in their
entirety. Copies of the Draft Alabama
and Mississippi RMP/EIS are available
in the Jackson Field Office at the above
address.
A. Barron Bail,
Acting State Director.
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BILLING CODE 4310–GJ–P
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[CO–140–1610–DT–009C]
Notice To Reopen the Public Comment
Period Regarding Supplemental
Information for Proposed Areas of
Critical Environmental Concern
(ACEC) With Associated Resource Use
Limitations Identified in the Proposed
Roan Plateau Resource Management
Plan Amendment/Final Environmental
Impact Statement (PRMPA/FEIS) for
Public Lands in Garfield and Rio
Blanco Counties, CO
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice to reopen the public
comment period for 14 days following
the publication of this notice in the
Federal Register for four potential
ACEC designations identified in the
PRMPA/FEIS.
SUMMARY: The public comment period is
being reopened to allow the public to
submit comments on the proposed
ACECs in the PRMPA/FEIS in an
electronic format as well as in writing.
DATES: The public comment period is
being reopened for 14 days following
the publication of this notice in the
Federal Register. Submissions may be
made electronically on the Colorado
BLM Web site at http://www.blm.gov/
rmp/co/roanplateau/comments.htm, or
in writing to the address listed below.
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Instructions on how to submit electronic
comments are posted on the Web site.
ADDRESSES: Submit any written
comments to Jamie Connell—Glenwood
Springs Field Manager, Bureau of Land
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Management, 50629 Highways 6 and 24,
Glenwood Springs, CO 81601.
Comments (written or electronic)
submitted during the ACEC review
process, including names and street
addresses of respondents will be
available for public review at the
Glenwood Springs Field Office during
regular business hours 7:45 a.m. to 4:30
p.m., Monday through Friday, except
holidays, and will be subject to
disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act. Before including your
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jamie Connell, Field Manager, Bureau of
Land Management Glenwood Springs
Field Office, 50629 Highways 6 & 24,
Glenwood Springs, CO 81601, or by
telephone at (970) 947–2800; or Greg
Goodenow at 303–239–3789.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice to
invite comment on the proposed ACECs
was originally published in the Federal
Register on June 11, 2007 (72 FR 32138).
Information concerning the proposed
ACECs, as well as the entire Proposed
Roan Plateau RMPA/FEIS may be found
on the Colorado BLM Web site at http://
www.blm.gov/rmp/co/roanplateau.
Dated: August 13, 2007.
Sally Wisely,
State Director, Colorado.
[FR Doc. E7–16308 Filed 8–16–07; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
General Management Plan,
Environmental Impact Statement,
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
AGENCY: National Park Service,
Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Intent to prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement for a
General Management Plan amendment,
Petrified Forest National Park.
SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, 42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C), the National
Park Service is preparing an
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
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for a General Management Plan (GMP)
amendment for Petrified Forest National
Park.
The park is currently managed under
a GMP that was completed in 1993. This
plan describes a proposed boundary
expansion for the park of approximately
93,000 acres. However, the 1993 GMP
does not prescribe management for the
proposed expansion lands. The GMP
was revised in 2004 to address specific
aspects of the park’s management; this
GMP Revision also does not address
management activities for proposed
expansion lands.
Public Law 108–430 was passed by
congress and signed by the President in
December 2004. This Act expanded
Petrified Forest National Park
boundaries by approximately 125,000
acres, and directed the NPS to prepare
a management plan for the new park
lands within three years. Planning for
the new lands is the focus of this GMP
amendment and its associated EIS.
The GMP amendment will establish
the overall direction for park expansion
lands, setting broad management goals
for the area for the next 15 to 20 years.
Among the topics that will be addressed
are protection of natural and cultural
resources, protection of riparian
resources, appropriate range of visitor
uses, impacts of visitor uses, adequacy
of park infrastructure, visitor access to
the park expansion area, education and
interpretive efforts, and external
pressures on the park. Management
zones that were established in the
current GMP will be applied to
expansion lands. These zones outline
the kinds of resource management
activities, visitor activities, and
developments that would be appropriate
in the expansion lands.
A range of reasonable alternatives for
managing the park, including a no-
action alternative and a preferred
alternative, will be developed through
the planning process and included in
the EIS. The EIS will evaluate the
potential environmental impacts of the
alternatives.
As the first phase of the planning and
EIS process, the National Park Service is
beginning to scope the issues to be
addressed in the GMP amendment. All
interested persons, organizations, and
agencies are encouraged to submit
comments and suggestions regarding the
issues or concerns the GMP amendment
should address, including a suitable
range of alternatives and appropriate
mitigating measures, and the nature and
extent of potential environmental
impacts.
DATES: Written comments on the scope
of the GMP amendment/EIS will be
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