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Notice of Availability of a Draft Supplement to the Final Environmental Impact Statement for Completion of the Natchez Trace Parkway, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi (1978)

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 [Federal Register: May 10, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 91)]
[Notices]
[Page 30129-30130]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr10my00-109]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Availability of a Draft Supplement to the Final
Environmental Impact Statement for Completion of the Natchez Trace
Parkway, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi (1978)

SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 102(2)(c) of the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (Public Law 91-190, as amended), this
notice announces the availability of the Draft Supplement (DSEIS) to
the Final Environmental Impact Statement for Natchez Trace Parkway
which was published in 1978. This supplement is for the construction of
Section 3P13 of the Natchez Trace Parkway through Ridgeland,
Mississippi. The DSEIS evaluates the environmental consequences
associated with the proposed action and the other alternatives on local
traffic and transportation routes, cultural resources, wetlands, visual
quality, visitor experience, economics and land use, and impact on
nearby residents, among other topics.

DATES: This DSEIS will be on public review for 60 days following the
date of Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) publication of their
notice of the DSEIS in the Federal Register. A public meeting will be
scheduled no less than 30 days from publication of EPA's notice but
during the 60 day review period. Time and place of the public meeting
will be scheduled at a later date and will be publicized in area
newspapers. Those listed on the Natchez Trace Parkway's database who
have shown interest in the proposed project will be notified personally
by letter from the Parkway Superintendent.

ADDRESSES: Public reading copies of the Natchez Trace Parkway's Section
3P13 DSEIS will be available for public review at the following
locations:

1. Natchez Trace Parkway Headquarters, 2680 Natchez Trace Parkway,
Tupelo, Mississippi 38804, (662) 680-4004
2. Jackson/Hinds Library System, Eudora Welty Library, 300 North State
Street, Jackson, Mississippi 39201, (601) 968-5809 (This is the
Headquarters or main library in Jackson.)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For copies of the DSEIS or additional
information, please contact: Wendell A. Simpson, Superintendent,
Natchez Trace Parkway, 2680 Natchez Trace Parkway, Tupelo, Mississippi
38804, Telephone: (662) 680-4004.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Natchez Trace Parkway was established in
1938 to commemorate the Old Natchez Trace, a primitive network of
trails that stretched from Natchez, Mississippi, to Nashville,
Tennessee. Designed to follow the alignment of the historic trace as
closely as the requirements of modern road construction allows, the
Natchez Trace Parkway will upon completion, extend diagonally from
Natchez to Nashville, a distance of approximately 444 miles.
    The completion of a continuous parkway motor road between Natchez
and Nashville by the National Park Service has been underway for more
than 60 years. A decision on and construction of this short segment of
the

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parkway motor road, combined with other completed, in-progress, and
planned NPS construction projects between I-20 and I-55 would permit
the opening of the parkway motor road to through visitor vehicular use
without the need for a detour through the greater metropolitan area of
Jackson, Mississippi. The parkway's 1987 General Management Plan ranks
the completion of the parkway motor road as one of its prominent
management objectives.
    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 form the rulemaking record which we will honor to
the extent allowable by law. There also may be circumstances in which
we would withhold from the rulemaking record a respondent's identity,
as allowable by law. If you wish for us to withhold your name and/or
address, you must state this prominently at the beginning of your
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.

    Dated: April 28, 2000.
W. Thomas Brown,
Regional Director, Southeast Region.
[FR Doc. 00-11653 Filed 5-9-00 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4310-70-M

 
 

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