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Final Environmental Impact Statement, General Management Plan Amendment, Wilderness and Backcountry Management Plan, Josua Tree National Park, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, California; Notice of Approval of Record of Decision

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 [Federal Register: January 31, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 20)]
[Notices]
[Page 4625]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

 National Park Service


Final Environmental Impact Statement, General Management Plan
Amendment, Wilderness and Backcountry Management Plan, Josua Tree
National Park, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, California;
Notice of Approval of Record of Decision

SUMMARY:  Pursuant to Sec. 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969 (P.L. 91-190, as amended) and the regulations
promulgated by the Council on Environmental Quality (40 CFR Part
1505.2), the Department of the Interior, National Park Service has
prepared and approved a Record of Decision for the Final Environmental
Impact Statement Wilderness and Backcountry Management Plan for Joshua
Tree National Park. The no action period was initiated November 5,
1999, with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Federal Register
notification of the filing of the Final Environmental Impact Statement
(FEIS).

Decision:  The National Park Service will implement wilderness
stewardship actions, monitoring, research, and other elements of a
comprehensive program described as the New Proposed Action (Alternative
E), as soon as practical. This course of action and four alternatives
were identified and analyzed in the Final and Supplemental
Environmental Impacts Statements (latter issued November 2, 1998). The
Draft Environmental Impact Statement was distributed on November 21,
1997.

Copies:  Interested parties desiring to review the Record of Decision
may obtain a copy by contacting the Superintendent, Joshua Tree
National Park, 74485 National Park Dr., Twentynine Palms, California
92277-3597; or via telephone request at (760) 367-5502.

    Dated: January 14, 2000.
William C. Walters,
Deputy Regional Director, Pacific West Region.
[FR Doc. 00-2027 Filed 1-28-00; 8:45 am]
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