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winter use season, will rely on an openended, in-depth process. 

Comments are invited on: (1) The 

practical utility of the information being 

gathered; (2) the accuracy of the burden 

hour estimate; (3) ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (4) 

ways to minimize the burden to 

respondents, including use of 

automated information collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology. Before including your 

address, phone number, e-mail address, 

or other personal identifying 

information in your comment, you 

should be aware that your entire 

comment—including your personal 

identifying information—may be made 

publicly available at any time. While 

you can ask us in your comment to 

withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Automated data collection: This 

information will be collected via inperson interviews and surveys. No 

automated data collection will take 

place. 

Description of respondents: 

Components 1 and 2: Visitors stopping 

at the Old Faithful Snow Lodge and Old 

Faithful Geyser on 20 days during the 

2007–2008 winter use season. 

Component 3: Snowmobile and 

snowcoach guides in Yellowstone 

National Park. 

Estimated average number of 

respondents: Component 1: 165 (120 

respondents for on-site survey; 45 

respondents for interviews). Component 

2: 400. Component 3: 30. 

Estimated average number of 

responses: Component 1: 165 (120 

respondents for on-site survey; 45 

respondents for interviews). Component 

2: 400. Component 3: 30. 

Estimated average burden hours per 

response: Component 1: 25 minutes for 

on-site survey respondents; 30 minutes 

for interview respondents. Component 

2: 25 minutes. Component 3: 33 

minutes. 

Frequency of Response: 1 time per 

respondent. 

Estimated annual reporting burden: 

256 hours. 

Dated: April 16, 2007. 

Leonard E. Stowe, 

NPS, Information Collection Clearance 

Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Final General Management Plan/ 

Environmental Impact Statement, 

Badlands National Park, North Unit, 

South Dakota 

AGENCY: National Park Service, 

Department of the Interior. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act of 1969, the National Park Service 

(NPS) announces the availability of the 

Record of Decision (ROD) for the Final 

General Management Plan/ 

Environmental Impact Statement (GMP/ 

EIS) for Badlands National Park, North 

Unit (park). A separate GMP is being 

developed for the guidance and 

management of the South Unit of 

Badlands National Park, and is 

scheduled to be completed in three 

years. Specifically, the NPS has selected 

the preferred alternative as described in 

the Final GMP/EIS. Under the selected 

action, the NPS will provide expanded 

opportunities for visitors to use the 

North Unit of the park. The number of 

locations where visitors could obtain 

park information and orientation will be 

increased with new visitor contact 

stations added near Pinnacles and in the 

town of Scenic. In addition, more hiking 

trails and routes will be designated in 

various parts of the park. Education 

pavilions will be added in the Conata 

picnic area and west of County Road 

502 along with a group campground. 

Additional studies and environmental 

documents will be developed, as 

appropriate, to examine alternative road 

alignments for the Loop Road at Cedar 

Pass. Finally, the NPS will recommend 

expanding the park’s boundaries in two 

locations to enhance resource protection 

and offer additional visitor experiences. 

One boundary expansion will 

incorporate approximately 5,400 acres 

along South Dakota Highway 44. The 

other recommended addition will be 

4,500 acres along the western edge 

adjacent to the wilderness area. 

The selected action and three other 

alternatives were analyzed in the draft 

and final GMP/EIS. The full range of 

foreseeable environmental 

consequences was assessed. Among the 

alternatives the NPS considered, the 

selected action best achieves a high 

standard of natural and cultural 

resource protection with improved 

opportunities for visitors in the park. 

Furthermore, the selected action 

responds to the changing visitation 

pattern the park has been experiencing. 

In the recent years, western South 

Dakota has become more of a 

destination for visitors with Rapid City 

serving as the hub for this visitation. 

This shift in tourism patterns has 

increased the number of park visitors 

entering the park through the western 

entrances. The selected action also 

provides needed improvements for park 

operations, such as areas for additional 

park housing and research support. The 

park is located in a rural area and 

housing for employees is limited in the 

surrounding communities. In addition, 

the park has developed a good 

relationship with the natural resources 

research community but has limited 

facilities for supporting these efforts. 

The selected action would address the 

need to provide facilities for park 

operations and research. The selected 

action also meets national 

environmental policy goals will not 

result in the impairment of resources 

and values. 

The ROD includes a statement of the 

decision made, synopses of other 

alternatives considered, the basis for the 

decision, the rationale for why the 

selected action is the environmentally 

preferred alternative, a finding of no 

impairment of park resources and 

values, and an overview of public 

involvement in the decisionmaking 

process. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Superintendent Paige Baker, Badlands 

National Park, 25216 Ben Reifel Road, 

P.O. Box 6, Interior, South Dakota 

57750, telephone 605–433–5361. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Copies of 

the Record of Decision may be obtained 

from the contact listed above or may be 

viewed online at http:// 

parkplanning.nps.gov/. 

Dated: December 14, 2006. 

Ernest Quintana, 

Regional Director, Midwest Region. 

This document was received at the Office 

of the Federal Register on April 19, 2007. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Intent To Prepare a General 

Management Plan and Environmental 

Impact Statement for the South Unit of 

Badlands National Park, South Dakota. 

AGENCY: National Park Service, 

Department of the Interior. 

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), the 

National Park Service (NPS) in 


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cooperation with the Pine Ridge Oglala 

Sioux, is preparing an Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS) for a General 

Management Plan (GMP) for the South 

Unit of Badlands National Park. The 

GMP will prescribe the resource 

conditions and visitor experiences that 

are to be achieved and maintained in 

the South Unit over the next 15 to 20 

years. 

To facilitate sound planning and 

environmental assessment, the NPS 

intends to gather information necessary 

for the preparation of the EIS and obtain 

suggestions and information from other 

agencies and the public on the scope of 

issues to be addressed in the EIS. 

Comments and participation in this 

scoping process are invited. 

Participation in the planning process 

will be encouraged and facilitated by 

various means, including newsletters 

and open houses or meetings. The NPS 

will conduct public scoping meetings to 

explain the planning process and to 

solicit opinion about issues to address 

in the GMP/EIS. 

Notification of all such meetings will 

be announced in the local press and in 

the NPS newsletters. 

ADDRESSES: Additionally, if you wish to 

comment on any issues associated with 

GMP, you may submit your comments 

by any one of several methods. You may 

mail or hand-deliver comments to 

Superintendent, Badlands National 

Park, 25216 Ben Reifel Road, Interior, 

South Dakota 57740. You may provide 

comments electronically by entering 

them into the NPS’s Planning, 

Environment and Public Comment Web 

site http://parkplanning.nps.gov. 

Information will be available for public 

review and comment from the Office of 

the Superintendent at the above 

address. 

Requests to be added to the project 

mailing list should be sent to Ms. 

Pamela Livermont, Badlands National 

Park, 25216 Ben Reifel Road, Interior, 

South Dakota 57750; telephone 605–

433–5281; or e-mail 

Pamela_Livermont@nps.gov. 

Before including your address, 

telephone number, e-mail address, or 

other personal identifying information 

in your comments, you should be aware 

that your entire comment (including 

your personal identifying information) 

may be made publicly available at any 

time. While you can ask us in your 

comment to withhold your personal 

identifying information from public 

review, we cannot guarantee that we 

will be able to do so. We will make all 

submissions from organizations or 

businesses, from individuals identifying 

themselves as representatives or 

officials, or organizations or businesses 

available for public inspection in their 

entirety. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Superintendent Paige Baker, Badlands 

National Park, 25216 Ben Reifel Road, 

Interior, South Dakota 57750, telephone 

605–433–5280. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Composed 

of two largely undeveloped and remote 

tracts of land totaling 140,000 acres, the 

South Unit lies entirely within the Pine 

Ridge Oglala Sioux Reservation. The 

South Unit is administered to provide 

for the care, maintenance, and 

preservation of prehistoric, historic, 

scientific, and scenic interest, and to 

develop facilities that will provide for 

public use and enjoyment. 

As stated above, the GMP will 

prescribe the resource conditions and 

visitor experiences that are to be 

achieved and maintained in the South 

Unit 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 unit’s purpose, 

significance, special mandates, and the 

body of laws and policies directing park 

management. Based on determinations 

of desired conditions, the GMP will 

outline the kinds of resource 

management activities, visitor activities, 

and appropriate future development. A 

range of reasonable management 

alternatives will be developed through 

this planning process and will include, 

at minimum, a no-action alternative and 

a preferred alternative. To facilitate 

sound analysis of environmental 

impacts, the NPS is gathering 

information necessary for the 

preparation of an associated EIS. 

A GMP for the North Unit was 

completed in 2006; the South Unit GMP 

will be the equivalent of Volume 2. 

Together, the two volumes will 

constitute the GMP for Badlands 

National Park. 

Dated: January 29, 2007. 

Ernest Quintana, 

Regional Director, Midwest Region. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Grand Teton Transportation Plan, Final 

Environmental Impact Statement, 

Grand Teton National Park, WY 

AGENCY: National Park Service, 

Department of the Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of a 

Record of Decision on the Final 

Environmental Impact Statement for the 

Grand Teton Transportation Plan, Grand 

Teton National Park. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to § 102(2)(C) of the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969, 83 Stat. 852, 853, codified as 

amended at 42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C), the 

National Park Service announces the 

availability of the Record of Decision for 

the Grand Teton Transportation Plan, 

Grand Teton National Park, WY. On 

March 12, 2007, the Director, 

Intermountain Region approved the 

Record of Decision for the project. As 

soon as practicable, the National Park 

Service will begin to implement the 

Preferred Alternative contained in the 

FEIS issued on September 15, 2006. The 

following course of action will occur 

under the preferred alternative: 

construction of approximately 23 miles 

of separated multi-use pathways 

between the south park boundary and 

String Lake via North Jenny Lake 

Junction; approximately 16 miles of 

pathways within the road corridor 

between North Jenny Lake Junction and 

Colter Bay; an approximately 3-mile 

pathway within the road corridor along 

the Moose-Wilson Road from the 

Granite Canyon Entrance to the 

Laurance S. Rockefeller (LSR) Preserve; 

and realignment of the Moose-Wilson 

Road in two areas, with the existing 

alignments being restored to natural 

conditions. This course of action was 

analyzed in the Final Environmental 

Impact Statement and combines two 

alternatives presented in the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement. Four 

other alternatives were analyzed in the 

Draft and Final Environmental Impact 

Statements. The full range of foreseeable 

environmental consequences was 

assessed, and appropriate mitigating 

measures were identified. 

The Record of Decision includes a 

statement of the decision made, 

synopses of other alternatives 

considered, the basis for the decision, a 

description of the environmentally 

preferable alternative, a finding on 

impairment of park resources and 

values, a listing of measures to 

minimize environmental harm, and an 

overview of public involvement in the 

decision-making process. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mary Gibson Scott, Superintendent, 

Grand Teton National Park, P.O. Drawer 

170, Moose, Wyoming 83012–0170, 

(307) 739–3410. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Copies of 

the Record of Decision may be obtained 

from the contact listed above or online 

at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/grte. 


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