67166 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 220 / Tuesday, November 16, 2004 / Notices 

MMS Information Collection 

Clearance Officer: Arlene Bajusz (202) 

208–7744.

Dated: October 20, 2004. 

E.P. Danenberger, 

Chief, Engineering and Operations Division.

[FR Doc. 04–25331 Filed 11–15–04; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service 

Cuyahoga Valley National Park, OH

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Availability of a Plan 

of Operations and Environmental 

Assessment for a 30-day public review 

at Cuyahoga Valley National Park, 

Summit County, Ohio. 

SUMMARY: The National Park Service 

(NPS), in accordance with Section 

9.52(b) of Title 36 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations has received from Medina 

Fuel Company, Inc., a Plan of 

Operations to Conduct Geophysical 

(seismic) Testing within Camp Manatoc 

Boy Scout Reservation for the purpose 

of developing future oil/gas wells 

within the camp. A plan of operations 

describes the proposed operation, 

including the equipment, methods and 

materials to be used in the operation, 

mitigation measures to protect park 

resources and values and environmental 

conditions in the vicinity of the site, 

and environmental impacts of the 

proposed operation. When approved, 

the plan of operations serves as the 

operator’s permit to conduct operations 

in a park. Camp Manatoc is private 

property located within Cuyahoga 

Valley National Park, just east of 

Peninsula, Ohio. The proposed plan of 

operation is subject to the existing Deed 

of Preservation and Conservation 

Easement between the Boy Scouts of 

America and the National Park Service 

at Cuyahoga Valley National Park. 

Under the provisions of the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the 

National Park Service has prepared an 

Environmental Assessment which 

evaluates potential environmental 

impacts associated with the proposed 

geophysical operation located within 

the park.

DATES: The above documents are 

available for public review and 

comment for a period of 30 days from 

the publication date of this notice in the 

Federal Register.

ADDRESSES: The Plan of Operations and 

Environmental Assessment are available 

for public review and comment in the 

Office of the Superintendent, Cuyahoga 

Valley National Park, 15610 Vaughn 

Road, Brecksville, Ohio. Copies of the 

Plan of Operations are available, for a 

duplication fee, from the 

Superintendent, Cuyahoga Valley 

National Park, 15610 Vaughn Road, 

Brecksville, Ohio 44141.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Meg 

Plona, Biologist, Cuyahoga Valley 

National Park, 15610 Vaughn Road, 

Brecksville, Ohio 44141. Telephone: 

(330) 342–0764, e-mail at 

Meg_Plona@nps.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: If you 

wish to submit comments about this 

document within the 30 days, mail them 

to the address provided above, hand 

deliver them to the park at the street 

address provided above, or 

electronically file them to the e-mail 

address provided above. Our practice is 

to make the public comments we 

receive in response to planning 

documents, including names and home 

addresses of respondents, available for 

public review during regular business 

hours. 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. 

Individual respondents may request that 

we withhold their home address from 

the public record, and we will honor 

such requests to the extent allowable by 

law. If you wish to withhold your name 

and/or address, you must state this 

prominently at the beginning of your 

comment.

Dated: July 12, 2004. 

John P. Debo, Jr., 

Superintendent, Cuyahoga Valley National 

Park.

[FR Doc. 04–25355 Filed 11–15–04; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service 

Draft Supplemental Environmental 

Impact Statement for the Elwha 

Ecosystem Restoration 

Implementation Final Environmental 

Impact Statement, Olympic National 

Park, Clallam County, WA; Notice of 

Availability 

Summary: Pursuant to § 102 (2)(c) of 

the National Environmental Policy Act 

of 1969 (Pub. L. 91–190, as amended) 

and corresponding Council of 

Environmental Quality implementing 

regulations (40 CFR part 1500–1508), 

the National Park Service, Department 

of the Interior and its cooperating 

agencies have completed a draft 

supplement to the Elwha River 

Ecosystem Restoration Implementation 

final environmental impact statement 

(1996 Implementation EIS). Two dams 

(built in the early 1900s) block the 

Elwha River and limit anadromous fish 

to the lowest 4.9 river miles. A 1996 

Implementation EIS (second of two 

impact statements that examined how 

best to restore the Elwha River 

ecosystem and native anadromous 

fishery in Olympic National Park) 

selected dam removal as the preferred 

option and identified a particular set of 

actions to remove the dams. The release 

of sediment from behind the dams 

would result in sometimes severe 

impacts to water quality or the 

reliability of supply to downstream 

users during the dam removal impact 

period of about 3–5 years, which the 

Implementation EIS proposed mitigating 

through a series of specific measures 

(see below). However, since 1996, when 

the Record of Decision was signed, new 

research and changes unrelated to the 

project have necessitated re-analysis of 

these measures. The primary purpose of 

the supplemental EIS (SEIS) is to 

analyze the impacts of a new set of 

water quality and supply related 

mitigation measures. 

Background: Elwha Dam was built on 

the Elwha River in 1911 and Glines 

Canyon Dam in 1925, limiting 

anadromous fish to the lowest 4.9 miles 

of river and blocking access to more 

than 70 miles of Elwha River mainstem 

and tributary habitat. The two dams and 

their associated reservoirs have also 

inundated and degraded important 

riverine and terrestrial habitat and 

severely affected fisheries habitat 

through increased temperatures, 

reduced nutrients, the absence of 

spawning gravels downstream and other 

changes. Consequently, salmon and 

steelhead populations in the river have 

been considerably reduced or 

eliminated, and the Elwha River 

ecosystem within Olympic National 

Park significantly and adversely altered. 

In 1992, Congress enacted the Elwha 

River Ecosystem and Fisheries 

Restoration Act (Pub. L. 102–495) 

directing the Secretary of the Interior to 

fully restore the Elwha river ecosystem 

and native anadromous fisheries, while 

at the same time protecting users of the 

river’s water from adverse impacts 

associated with dam removal. As noted 

above, the decisions associated with this 

process indicated removal of both dams 

was needed to fully restore the 

ecosystem. Impacts to water quality will 

result from the release of sediment 

which has accumulated behind the 

dams. Impacts to water supply will