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Lake McDonald/Park Headquarters Wastewater Treatment System Rehabilitation Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Glacier National Park, Montana

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 [Federal Register: February 7, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 25)]
[Notices]
[Page 5888]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Lake McDonald/Park Headquarters Wastewater Treatment System
Rehabilitation Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Glacier National
Park, Montana

AGENCY:  National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

ACTION:  Availability of Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS)
for the Lake McDonald/Park Headquarters Wastewater Treatment System
Rehabilitation, Glacier National Park, Montana.

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SUMMARY:  Pursuant to section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969, the National Park Service announces the
availability of a DEIS for the Lake McDonald/Park Headquarters
Wastewater Treatment System Rehabilitation, Glacier National Park,
Montana.

DATES:  The DEIS will remain available for public review through March
31, 2000. If any public meetings are held concerning the DEIS, they
will be announced at a later date.

Comments

    If you wish to comment, you may submit your comments by any one of
several methods. You may mail comments to Superintendent, Wastewater
Project, Glacier National Park, West Glacier MT 59936. You may also
comment via the Internet to www.nps.gov/glac. Please submit Internet
comments as an ASCII file avoiding the use of special characters and
any form of encryption. Please also include ``Attn: Wastewater
Project'' and your name and return address in your Internet message. If
you do not receive a confirmation from the system that we have received
your Internet message, contact us directly at Glacier National Park,
(406) 888-7901. Finally, you may hand-deliver comments to Glacier
National Park, Headquarters, West Glacier, MT. Our practice is to make
comments, including names and home addresses of respondents available
for public review during regular business hours. Individual respondents
may request that we withhold their home address from the record, which
we will honor to the extent allowable by law. There also may be
circumstances in which we would withhold from the record a respondent's
identity, as allowable by law. If you wish us to withhold your name
and/or address, you must state this prominently at the beginning of
your comment. However, we will not consider anonymous comments. We will
make all submissions from organizations or businesses, and from
individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of
organizations or businesses available for public inspection in their
entirety.

ADDRESSES:  Copies of the DEIS for the Wastewater Project are available
from the Superintendent, Glacier National Park, West Glacier Montana
59936. It is also available on the Internet at www.nps.gov/glac. Public
reading copies of the DEIS will be available for review at the
following locations:

Office of the Superintendent, Glacier National Park, West Glacier, MT
59936, Telephone: (406) 888-7901
Planning and Environmental Quality, Intermountain Support Office--
Denver, National Park Service, P.O. Box 25287, Denver, CO 80225-0287,
Telephone: (303) 969-2851 [or (303) 969-2377]
Office of Public Affairs, National Park Service, Department of Interior
18th and C Streets NW, Washington D.C. 20240, Telephone: (202) 208-6843

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Draft Environmental Impact Statement
(DEIS) was prepared to address rehabilitation of the wastewater
treatment system that currently serves the west side of Glacier
National Park (Park). The service area for the existing wastewater
treatment plant (WWTP) includes Park Headquarters and residences,
campgrounds, Lake McDonald Lodge, and concession businesses and
employee housing. The existing WWTP is no longer meeting its original
treatment objective or operating at design capacity.The preferred
alternative (Alternative 3) is to construct an advanced WWTP, with a
land discharge site. This alternative would provide the greatest level
of treatment and the highest water quality of the alternatives
considered. Minimal new site disturbance would be necessary to
implement the preferred alternative and the existing spray field in the
floodplain of the Middle Fork of the Flathead River and McDonald Creek
would no longer be used. Alternative 1A includes construction of an
additional storage lagoon and a new spray field to discharge treated
effluent. This would require clearing 6.5 hectares of undisturbed land
and the existing spray field would continue to be used. Alternative 1B
includes construction of two new storage lagoons and an additional
aerated lagoon (3.6 hectares). The existing spray field would continue
to be used. Alternative 2A includes construction of an advanced WWTP
and a series of three rapid infiltration basins (3.6 hectares) to
discharge treated effluent to the ground water. The existing spray
field would no longer be used. The no action alternative (Alternative
4) would continue operation of the existing WWTP and spray field.
Occasional raw sewage spills are possible when storage capacity is
exceeded and the spray field cannot be operated because of wet
conditions. The details of the alternatives and potential impacts to
wildlife, vegetation, and threatened and endangered species and
benefits to water quality and Park and concession operations are
described in this document and are summarized in Table 2. Estimated
costs to implement the alternatives are presented in Table 1.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Superintendent, Glacier National Park
at the above address and telephone number.

    Dated: January 28, 2000.
John A. King,
Director, Intermountain Region, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 00-2612 Filed 2-4-00; 8:45 am]
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