[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 91 (Wednesday, May 10, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30129-30130]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-11653]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Availability of a Draft Supplement to the Final 
Environmental Impact Statement for Completion of the Natchez Trace 
Parkway, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi (1978)

SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 102(2)(c) of the National 
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (Public Law 91-190, as amended), this 
notice announces the availability of the Draft Supplement (DSEIS) to 
the Final Environmental Impact Statement for Natchez Trace Parkway 
which was published in 1978. This supplement is for the construction of 
Section 3P13 of the Natchez Trace Parkway through Ridgeland, 
Mississippi. The DSEIS evaluates the environmental consequences 
associated with the proposed action and the other alternatives on local 
traffic and transportation routes, cultural resources, wetlands, visual 
quality, visitor experience, economics and land use, and impact on 
nearby residents, among other topics.

DATES: This DSEIS will be on public review for 60 days following the 
date of Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) publication of their 
notice of the DSEIS in the Federal Register. A public meeting will be 
scheduled no less than 30 days from publication of EPA's notice but 
during the 60 day review period. Time and place of the public meeting 
will be scheduled at a later date and will be publicized in area 
newspapers. Those listed on the Natchez Trace Parkway's database who 
have shown interest in the proposed project will be notified personally 
by letter from the Parkway Superintendent.

ADDRESSES: Public reading copies of the Natchez Trace Parkway's Section 
3P13 DSEIS will be available for public review at the following 
locations:

1. Natchez Trace Parkway Headquarters, 2680 Natchez Trace Parkway, 
Tupelo, Mississippi 38804, (662) 680-4004
2. Jackson/Hinds Library System, Eudora Welty Library, 300 North State 
Street, Jackson, Mississippi 39201, (601) 968-5809 (This is the 
Headquarters or main library in Jackson.)


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For copies of the DSEIS or additional 
information, please contact: Wendell A. Simpson, Superintendent, 
Natchez Trace Parkway, 2680 Natchez Trace Parkway, Tupelo, Mississippi 
38804, Telephone: (662) 680-4004.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Natchez Trace Parkway was established in 
1938 to commemorate the Old Natchez Trace, a primitive network of 
trails that stretched from Natchez, Mississippi, to Nashville, 
Tennessee. Designed to follow the alignment of the historic trace as 
closely as the requirements of modern road construction allows, the 
Natchez Trace Parkway will upon completion, extend diagonally from 
Natchez to Nashville, a distance of approximately 444 miles.
    The completion of a continuous parkway motor road between Natchez 
and Nashville by the National Park Service has been underway for more 
than 60 years. A decision on and construction of this short segment of 
the

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parkway motor road, combined with other completed, in-progress, and 
planned NPS construction projects between I-20 and I-55 would permit 
the opening of the parkway motor road to through visitor vehicular use 
without the need for a detour through the greater metropolitan area of 
Jackson, Mississippi. The parkway's 1987 General Management Plan ranks 
the completion of the parkway motor road as one of its prominent 
management objectives.
    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 address form the rulemaking record which we will honor to 
the extent allowable by law. There also may be circumstances in which 
we would withhold from the rulemaking record a respondent's identity, 
as allowable by law. If you wish for us to withhold your name and/or 
address, you must state this prominently at the beginning of your 
comments. 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.

    Dated: April 28, 2000.
W. Thomas Brown,
Regional Director, Southeast Region.
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