44180 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 151 / Tuesday, August 7, 2007 / Notices 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Contact 

Superintendent Alexa Roberts at 719–

438–5916 or e-mail: 

sand_superintendent@nps.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: You may 

mail comments to: Superintendent’s 

Office, Sand Creek Massacre National 

Historic Site, P.O. Box 249, Eads, CO 

81036. You may also hand-deliver 

comments to the Superintendent’s 

Office, Sand Creek Massacre National 

Historic Site, Eads, CO. (Attn: Sand 

Creek Massacre General Management 

Plan/Environmental Impact Statement.) 

Before including your address, phone 

number, e-mail address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comments, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal 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. 

Dated: June 21, 2007. 

Hal J. Grovert, 

Acting Director, Intermountain Region, 

National Park Service. 

[FR Doc. E7–15293 Filed 8–6–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Final Environmental Impact Statement; 

Reconstruction of the Furnace Creek 

Water Collection System; Death Valley 

National Park, Inyo County, CA; Notice 

of Approval of Record of Decision 

Summary: Pursuant to § 102(2)(C) of 

the National Environmental Policy Act 

of 1969 (Pub. L. 91–190, as amended) 

and the implementing regulations 

promulgated by the Council on 

Environmental Quality (40 CFR part 

1505.2), the Department of the Interior, 

National Park Service has prepared, and 

the Regional Director, Pacific West 

Region has approved the Record of 

Decision (and Statement of Findings for 

Wetlands and Floodplains) for the 

reconstruction of the Furnace Creek 

water collection system at Death Valley 

Natioal Park. Reconstructing the water 

collection system affords the park with 

the opportunity to provide a reliable 

quality and quantity of potable water to 

the users in the Furnace Creek area, to 

promote conservation of biological and 

cultural resources in the TexasTravertine Springs area, and to enhance 

water resource protection and 

management in the Furnace Creek area. 

The no-action ‘‘30-day wait period’’ was 

officially initiated July 14, 2006, with 

the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency’s Federal Register notification 

of the filing of the Final Environmental 

Impact Statement. 

Decision: As soon as practicable the 

park will begin to implement the 

Preferred Alternative (with minor 

modifications from Alternative C as 

described in the Draft and Final EIS); as 

documented in the EIS, this alternative 

was deemed to be the ‘‘environmentally 

preferred’’ course of action and it was 

further determined that implementation 

of the selected actions will not 

constitute an impairment of park 

resources and values. In doing so, the 

park can rebuild the outdated water 

collection system in the Furnace Creek 

area to supply safe and reliable potable 

and nonpotable water to the park’s main 

visitor use area, separate the potable and 

nonpotable water systems in the project 

area, and provide nonpotable water 

from the Inn Tunnel and a relocated 

Furnace Creek Wash collection gallery. 

The selected actions will provide 

potable water from two to three new 

groundwater wells in the Texas Springs 

Syncline, and will treat water collected 

for potable purposes using a reverse 

osmosis water treatment plant. The 

concentrate water generated from the 

water treatment process will be 

conveyed to the park’s sewage treatment 

plant for evaporation. Non-potable 

water will be collected from Furnace 

Creek Wash and the Inn Tunnel. Water 

for riparian restoration purposes will be 

released from Texas Springs and 

Travertine Springs Lines 1, 2, 3, and 4. 

To meet maximum daily flow 

requirements, Alternative 3 will collect 

600 gallons per minute (GPM) of potable 

water and 900 gpm of nonpotable water, 

and release approximately 770 gpm of 

riparian water. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Based 

upon agency comments and refinements 

desired by the planning team 

collaborative, the selected plan includes 

several adjustments from the Preferred 

Alternative as detailed in the EIS, 

including but not limited to the 

determination that reverse osmosis 

discharge water will be piped to 

wastewater treatment lagoons, thus 

eliminating any potential for 

unacceptable environmental effects 

through other discharge options. The 

selected project and three alternatives 

were identified and analyzed in the 

Final EIS, and previously in the Draft 

EIS (the latter was distributed in 

October, 2005). A broad spectrum of 

foreseeable environmental 

consequences were assessed, and 

appropriate mitigation measures 

identified, for each alternative. 

Beginning with early scoping, through 

the preparation of Draft and Final EIS, 

a series of public meetings and openhouses were conducted locally. Overall 

approximately 10 written comments 

were received (as noted above, some 

agency comments served as the source 

of minor adjustments to the final 

selected plan). Key consultations or 

other contacts which aided in preparing 

the EIS involved (but were not limited 

to) the California State Historic 

Preservation Office, the Lahotan Region 

Water Quality Control Board, the 

California Department of 

Transportation, the Timbisha Shoshone 

Tribe and its Tribal Historic 

Preservation Officer, Xanterra Parks and 

Resorts, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

Copies: Interested parties desiring to 

review the Record of Decision may 

obtain a complete copy by contacting 

Superintendent James T. Reynolds, 

Death Valley National Park, P.O. Box 

579, Death Valley, California 92328; 

telephone (760) 786–3227 or via e-mail 

at deva_superintendent@nps.gov. 

Dated: May 21, 2007. 

Jonathan B. Jarvis, 

Regional Director, Pacific West Region. 

[FR Doc. 07–3838 Filed 8–6–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–FF–M 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Final Environmental Impact Statement, 

Systems Conveyance and Operations 

Program, Lake Mead National 

Recreation Area, Clark County, NV; 

Notice of Approval of Record of 

Decision 

Summary: Pursuant to section 

102(2)(C) of the National Environmental 

Policy Act of 1969 (Pub. L. 91–190, as 

amended) and the implementing 

regulations promulgated by the Council 

on Environmental Quality (40 CFR 

1505.2), the Department of the Interior, 

National Park Service has prepared, and 

the Regional Director, Pacific West 

Region has approved, the Record of 

Decision for the Clean Water Coalition’s 

proposed System Conveyance and 

Operations Program. The formal noaction period was officially initiated 

February 23, 2007, with the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency’s 

Federal Register notification of the 

filing of the Final Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS). 

Decision: The Final EIS analyzed a 

no-action alternative, a process 

improvement alternative, and three 


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