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Decision: As soon as practical the 

park will begin to implement as its 

updated Fire Management Plan the 

‘‘multiple strategy’’ alternative 

(identified and analyzed in the Draft 

and Final EIS as Alternative IV). The 

selected plan will focus on restoring 

high elevation logged plant 

communities and reducing the risk of 

high severity wildland fire by 

decreasing forest stand density, 

reducing surface fuels, and attempting 

to restore fire as a natural disturbance 

process to the greatest extent feasible. 

Implementation of these strategies 

combines use of prescribed fire and 

mechanical treatment, and includes 

both pile and broadcast burns. 

Project sizes may range from 0.5 to 

1,000 acres, and will occur in all 

vegetation types. Up to 2,200 acres 

could be treated in each year of 

implementation. To facilitate these 

operations, the park’s fire operations 

cache will be centrally located at the 

Oak Bottom area. 

An additional component of the Draft 

and Final EIS was the amending of the 

2001 General Management Plan (GMP), 

to allow for future consideration of 

replacing or modernizing the existing 

park administrative center within the 

park. Under the selected alternative, the 

park’s GMP is amended to allow the 

park to consider construction a new 

administrative building at the existing 

park headquarters site on Kennedy 

Memorial Drive (subsequent 

environmental compliance, with 

opportunity for public involvement, 

would be necessary to address this 

option within a full range of 

alternatives). 

The selected plan was determined to 

be the ‘‘environmentally preferred’’

alternative. Since the Fire Management 

Plan/Final Environmental Impact 

Statement is programmatic in nature, 

project- or site-specific mitigations may 

need to be developed and implemented 

to ensure resource protection efforts 

reduce or avoid adverse effects. During 

the fire management planning phase, 

subject matter experts will review 

evaluate existing databases and maps, 

and, if necessary, conduct additional 

surveys to field verify natural or cultural 

resource conditions. Additional 

consultation with the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, the California State 

Historic Preservation Officer, the 

Redding Rancheria, and others may be 

required and will be documented in the 

project planning phase. 

This selected plan and three 

alternatives were identified and 

analyzed in the Draft and Final EIS. In 

addition to the selected alternative, the 

environmental analysis addressed: 

Alternative/No Action (the current fire 

management program); Alternative II 

Prescribed Fire Dominated (the fire 

program would have focused on the 

intentional use of fire through the 

application of prescribed fire to meet 

ecological restoration and maintenance 

objectives, and to reduce hazardous 

fuels throughout the park); and 

Alternative III Suppression Dominated 

(all natural and human-ignited wildland 

fires would have been suppressed). The 

full spectrum of foreseeable 

environmental consequences was 

assessed, and appropriate mitigation 

measures identified for each alternative. 

Conclusion: The selected plan 

(Alternative IV) provides the most 

comprehensive and effective method 

among the alternatives considered for 

meeting the NPS purposes, goals, and 

criteria for managing fire and fire risks 

in Whiskeytown National Recreation 

Area and for meeting national 

environmental and fire policy goals. The 

selection of Alternative IV, as detailed 

in the Fire Management Plan/Final 

Environmental Impact Statement, will 

not result in the impairment of park 

resources nor violate the Organic Act of 

1916, and will allow the park to most 

effectively conserve park resources and 

provide for the long term enjoyment of 

visitors. 

Interested parties desiring to review 

the Record of Decision may obtain a 

complete copy by contacting the 

Superintendent, Whiskeytown National 

Recreation Area, P.O. Box 188, 

Whiskeytown, CA 96095 (530) 242–

3400.

Dated: August 25, 2004. 

Jonathan B. Jarvis, 

Regional Director, Pacific West Region.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service 

Committee for the Preservation of the 

White House; Notice of Public Meeting

AGENCY: Department of the Interior, 

National Park Service.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given in 

accordance with the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act that a meeting of the 

Committee for the Preservation of the 

White House will be held at the White 

House at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, 

November 17, 2004.

DATES: November 17, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Executive Secretary, Committee for the 

Preservation of the White House, 1100 

Ohio Drive, SW., Washington, DC 

20242. (202) 619–6344.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: It is 

expected that the meeting agenda will 

include policies, goals, and long range 

plans. The meeting will be open, but 

subject to appointment and security 

clearance requirements. Clearance 

information, which includes full name, 

date of birth and social security number, 

must be received by November 10, 2004. 

Due to the present mail delays being 

experienced, clearance information 

should be faxed to (202) 619–6353 in 

order to assure receipt by deadline. 

Inquiries may be made by calling the 

Committee for the Preservation of the 

White House between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. 

weekdays at (202) 619–6344. Written 

comments may be sent to the Executive 

Secretary, Committee for the 

Preservation of the White House, 1100 

Ohio Drive, SW., Washington, DC 

20242.

Dated: October 8, 2004. 

Ann Bowman Smith, 

Executive Secretary, Committee for the 

Preservation of the White House.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service 

Announcement of Gates of the Arctic 

National Park Subsistence Resource 

Commission (SRC) Meeting

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given in 

accordance with the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act that a meeting of the 

Gates of the Arctic National Park 

Subsistence Resource Commissions will 

be held at Fairbanks, Alaska. The 

purpose of the meeting will be to 

continue work on currently authorized 

and proposed National Park Service 

subsistence hunting program 

recommendations including other 

related subsistence management issues. 

The meeting will be open to the public. 

Any person may file with the 

Commission a written statement 

concerning the matters to be discussed. 

The Subsistence Resource 

Commission is authorized under Title 

VIII, Section 808, of the Alaska National 

Interest Lands Conservation Act, Pub. L. 

96–487, and operates in accordance 

with the provisions of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act.

DATES: The meeting times are, 1. 

Tuesday, November 9, 2004, from 9 a.m. 

to approximately 5 p.m. 2. Wednesday,