The Presidio of San Francisco, California; Notice of Adoption of the Presidio Trust Management Plan and Availability of the Record of Decision
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[Federal Register: September 11, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 176)]
[Notices]
[Page 57632-57633]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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PRESIDIO TRUST
The Presidio of San Francisco, California; Notice of Adoption of
the Presidio Trust Management Plan and Availability of the Record of
Decision
AGENCY: The Presidio Trust.
ACTION: The Presidio Trust Board of Directors (Board) has adopted the
``Presidio Trust Management Plan, Land Use Policies for Area B of The
Presidio of San Francisco'' (PTMP) from among six plan alternatives and
one variant as the plan that will guide the Presidio Trust's (Trust's)
future management and implementation of projects within the area of The
Presidio of San Francisco (Presidio) under the Trust's jurisdiction
(Area B). The selection and basis for the Trust's decision is set forth
in a Record of Decision (ROD) for the PTMP Final Environmental Impact
Statement (Final EIS).
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The Board made the decision set forth in the ROD after more than
two years of planning and environmental review by the Trust in
compliance with the decision-making requirements of the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.)
(NEPA), the NEPA's implementing regulations promulgated by the Council
on Environmental Quality (40 CFR 1500-1508), and the Trust's
supplemental implementing regulations
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at 36 CFR part 1010. The Final EIS is a programmatic document, and
supplements the 1994 Final General Management Plan Amendment
Environmental Impact Statement for the Presidio. Based upon a thorough
analysis of the PTMP Final EIS alternatives and their potential
environmental consequences, consideration of all public and agency
comments received during the NEPA process, and in consideration of the
mandates of the Trust Act (16 U.S.C. 460bb note, Title I of Pub. L.
104-333, 110 Stat. 4097), as amended, and the entire agency record, the
Board selected the PTMP, analyzed in the Final EIS as the Final Plan
Alternative and fully set forth in the separate PTMP document, as the
Trust's management plan. The Board approved and adopted the PTMP by
unanimous vote on August 22, 2002, and authorized the Trust's Executive
Director to execute the ROD memorializing the Board's decision. The ROD
was signed on August 27, 2002.
CONTENTS: The ROD documents the decision and rationale for adopting the
PTMP (identified during project scoping and review of draft documents
under the name Presidio Trust Implementation Plan or PTIP). The ROD
also provides background about the Trust and the planning effort, and
describes the alternatives considered, public involvement, agency
consultation, mitigating measures developed to avoid or minimize
environmental impacts of the selected alternative, and use of the Final
EIS in subsequent decision making. As required by the NEPA, it
identifies the environmentally preferable alternative, and sets forth
an evaluation of alternatives and the reasons for adopting the Final
Plan Alternative. A report addressing public input received during the
period following release of the PTMP and the accompanying Final EIS is
also attached to the ROD.
DATES: The Trust initiated a public planning and environmental review
process pursuant to the NEPA on June 30, 2000, developed alternative
plan options and issued a Draft Plan and Draft EIS on July 25, 2001,
invited public participation and considered public comment, and issued
a proposed Final Plan, Final EIS, and responses to public comments on
May 24, 2002. The 30-day minimum ``no-action'' period required by the
NEPA expired on June 23, 2002, and the Trust signed the PTMP ROD,
making it immediately effective, on August 27, 2002.
Materials Available to the Public: The approved ROD is available by
calling or writing the Presidio Trust, 34 Graham Street, P.O. Box
29052, San Francisco, CA 94129-0052. Telephone: 415/561-5414. The ROD
is available electronically on the Trust's website (http://
www.presidiotrust.gov).
The ROD may also be reviewed in the
Trust's library at the above address.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Pelka, NEPA Compliance Manager,
the Presidio Trust, 34 Graham Street, P.O. Box 29052, San Francisco, CA
94129-0052. Telephone: 415/561-5414.
Dated: September 4, 2002.
Karen A. Cook,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 02-23060 Filed 9-10-02; 8:45 am]
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