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providers. The contact information for 

the current providers is: (1) Verisign, 

Inc., NPiazzola@verisign.com, 410–691–

2100 and (2) Betrusted US, Inc., 

TGreco@betrusted.com, 443–367–7052, 

or JTLazo@betrusted.com, 443–367–

7011. 

BLM will consider an electronic form 

submission to be: (1) Received at the 

date and time BLM receives the 

submission electronically by the BLM; 

and (2) Received in the proper office if 

filed on-line. 

The Government Paperwork 

Elimination Act of 1998 (GPEA) 

mandates that the Federal Government 

accept electronically submitted forms. 

The GPEA specifically states that 

electronic records and their related 

electronic signatures are not to be 

denied legal effect, validity, or 

enforceability merely because they are 

in electronic form. The public may 

continue to use, and BLM will continue 

to accept, filings on paper forms. 

In many cases, our existing 

regulations require a written signature 

and filing of a paper form in a specific 

office. GPEA supercedes these 

regulations. Our intention is to propose 

regulations to address the inconsistency 

and to clarify that digital signatures and 

on-line filing (when performed as 

described above) is an acceptable way to 

file applications and other documents. 

For more information on electronic 

signatures and e-Government in general, 

please visit http://www.whitehouse.gov/

omb/egov/ea.htm and http://

www.egov.gov.

Dated: September 8, 2004. 

Lawrence E. Benna, 

Assistant Director, Business and Fiscal 

Resources.

[FR Doc. 04–21785 Filed 9–30–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–84–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service 

Colorado River Management Plan, 

Draft Environmental Impact Statement, 

Grand Canyon National Park, Grand 

Canyon, AZ

AGENCY: National Park Service, 

Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability of the draft 

environmental impact statement for the 

Colorado River Management Plan for 

Grand Canyon National Park. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to subsection 

102(2)(C) of the National Environmental 

Policy Act of 1969, codified at 42 U.S.C. 

4332(2)(C), the National Park Service 

announces the availability of a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for the 

Colorado River Management Plan, 

Grand Canyon National Park, Grand 

Canyon, Arizona. The document 

describes and analyzes the 

environmental impacts of several action 

alternatives, including a preferred 

alternative, for future visitor use 

management of the Colorado River 

through Grand Canyon National Park, 

including the Lower Gorge. A no-action 

alternative is also evaluated.

DATES: The National Park Service will 

accept comments from the public on the 

Draft Environmental Impact Statement 

for 90 days after publication of this 

notice. Public meeting dates will be 

posted on the Internet at http://

www.nps.gov/grca/crmp.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement are 

available from the Office of the 

Superintendent, Grand Canyon National 

Park, P.O. Box 129, Grand Canyon, 

Arizona 86023. The document is also 

available on the Internet at: http://

www.nps.gov/grca/crmp.

You may submit comments to any one 

of several addresses: (1) You may mail 

comments to CRMP Project, Grand 

Canyon National Park, P.O. Box 129, 

Grand Canyon Arizona 86023; (2) You 

may comment via the Internet to http:/

/www.nps.gov/grca/crmp; and (3) You 

may hand-deliver comments to Grand 

Canyon National Park at Park 

Headquarters, 1 Village Loop Drive, 

Grand Canyon, Arizona 86023.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mary Killeen, Project Assistant, Grand 

Canyon National Park, 928–638–7885.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Document distribution and public 

meetings: The public review and 

comment process will involve 

distribution of the document and a 

comment form. Public meetings will be 

held in Denver, Colorado; Phoenix, 

Arizona; Flagstaff, Arizona; Salt Lake 

City, Utah; the San Francisco, California 

area; and the Washington, DC area. 

Specific information on these meeting 

locations and their dates, and on any 

other locations and dates that may be 

added, will be posted at http://

www.nps.gov/grca/crmp. Specific 

information may also be obtained from 

the individuals listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section, 

below. 

Commenting by e-mail: Please submit 

Internet comments as an ASCII file 

avoiding the use of special characters 

and any form of encryption. Please also 

include ‘‘Attn: CRMP 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 Linda Jalbert 928–638–7909. 

Confidentiality: 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 addresses 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. 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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mary Killeen, 928–638–7885, or Linda 

Jalbert, 928–638–7909.

Dated: September 24, 2004. 

Stephen P. Martin, 

Director, Intermountain Region, National 

Park Service.

[FR Doc. 04–22040 Filed 9–30–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–ED–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation 

Renewal of the Sacramento River 

Settlement Contracts, Shasta, Tehama, 

Butte, Glenn, Colusa, Sutter, Yolo, and 

Sacramento Counties, CA

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability of the draft 

environmental impact statement (Draft 

EIS) and notice of public hearing (DES 

04–50). 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 

1969 (as amended), the Bureau of 

Reclamation (Reclamation) as lead 

Federal Agency, has made available for 

public review a Draft EIS for the 

renewal of long-term contracts to deliver 

water from the Central Valley Project 

(CVP) to the Sacramento River 

Settlement Contractors. The Sacramento 

River Settlement Contractors are entities 

and individuals that typically receive 

both non-CVP water, referred to as base 

supply, and supplemental water from 

the CVP, referred to as Project Water. 

The proposed contract renewals would 

continue the delivery of base supply 

and Project Water for an additional 40 

years. The Draft EIS describes and