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Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the General Management Plan/Wilderness Study, Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Missouri

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 [Federal Register: December 5, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 233)]
[Notices]
[Page 70530-70531]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service

Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the
General Management Plan/Wilderness Study, Ozark National Scenic
Riverways, Missouri

AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act
of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), the National Park Service (NPS) is
preparing an environmental impact statement (EIS) for a General
Management Plan/Wilderness Study (GMP/WS) for Ozark National Scenic
Riverways (Riverways). The GMP/WS will prescribe the resource
conditions and visitor experiences that are to be achieved and
maintained in the Riverways over the next 15 to 20 years.

DATES: To be most helpful to the scoping process, comments should be
received within 60 days from the date this notice is published in the
Federal Register. Public meetings regarding the GMP/WS will be held in
September 2006. Please check local media, the park's Web site, 
http://www.nps.gov/ozar; the NPS's Planning, Environment and Public Comment
(PEPC) Web site http://parkplanning.nps.gov; or contact the
Superintendent to find our when and where these meetings will be held.

ADDRESSES: Additionally, if you wish to comment on any issues
associated with the GMP/WS, you may submit your comments by any one of
several methods. You may mail comments to Superintendent, Ozark
National Scenic Riverways, 404 Watercress Drive, P.O. Box 490, Van
Buren, Missouri 63965. You may provide comments electronically by
entering them into the PEPC Web site at the address above. Finally, you
may hand-deliver comments to the Riverways headquarters located off of
Business Highway 60 on Watercress Drive in Van Buren, Missouri.
Information will be available for public review and comment from the
Office of the Superintendent, 404 Watercress Drive, P.O. Box 490, Van
Buren, Missouri 63965.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Superintendent Noel Poe, Ozark
National Scenic Riverways, 404 Watercress Drive, P.O. Box 490, Van
Buren, Missouri 63965, telephone, 573-323-4236.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As stated above, the GMP/WS will prescribe the

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resource conditions and visitor experiences that are to be achieved and
maintained in the Riverways over the next 15 to 20 years. The
clarification of what must be achieved according to law and policy will
be based on review of the Riverways' purpose, significance, special
mandates, and the body of laws and policies directing park management.
Based on determinations of desired conditions, the GMP/WS will outline
the kinds of resource management activities, visitor activities,
development that would be appropriate in the future, and consider
whether or not wilderness should be proposed in a portion of the
Riverways. A range of reasonable management alternatives will be
developed through this planning process and will include, at minimum, a
no-action and a preferred alternative. To facilitate sound analysis of
environmental impacts, the NPS is gathering information necessary for
the preparation of an associated EIS.
    As part of the planing process, the NPS is also preparing a WS to
evaluate the Big Spring area at the Riverways for possible designation
as wilderness. The Big Spring area was one of three areas evaluated for
wilderness suitability as part of the 1984 GMP. All three areas were
determined not suitable at the conclusion of the suitability
assessment. The Big Spring area is now considered suitable because non-
conforming uses have been removed. The other two areas considered in
1984, the Upper Jacks Fork and Cardareva areas are not being considered
for wilderness designation because of continuing non-conforming uses
and the presence of non-Federal land ownership, respectively.
    Our practice is to make comments, including names, home addresses,
home phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of respondents, available for
public review. Individual respondents may request that we withhold
their names and/or home addresses, etc., but if you wish us to consider
withholding this information, you must state this prominently at the
beginning of your comments. In addition, you must present a rationale
for withholding this information. This rationale must demonstrate that
disclosure would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy.
Unsupported assertions will not meet this burden. In the absence of
exceptional, documentable circumstances, this information will be
released. We will always make submissions from organizations or
businesses and from individuals identifying themselves as
representatives of or officials of organizations or businesses,
available for public inspection in their entirety.

    Dated: July 13, 2006.
David N. Given,
Acting Regional Director, Midwest Region.
[FR Doc. 06-9521 Filed 12-4-06; 8:45 am]
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