[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 198 (Tuesday, October 14, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53336-53337]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-27106]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Comprehensive Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement for 
the Vancouver National Historic Reserve, Washington

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement.

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SUMMARY: The National Park Service, in cooperation with the City of 
Vancouver, Washington, U.S. Army, and the State of Washington, will 
prepare a comprehensive management plan and environmental impact 
statement (EIS) for the Vancouver National Historic Reserve in 
Vancouver, Washington.
    The 366-acre Reserve, which includes Fort Vancouver National 
Historic Site, Vancouver Barracks, Officers Row, Pearson Field, the 
Water Resources Education Center, and portions of the Columbia River 
Waterfront, was established with the signing of Public Law 104-333 on 
November 12, 1996. The Reserve is to be administered in accordance with 
a comprehensive management plan to be developed by a partnership 
consisting of the U.S. Army, the National Park Service, the City of 
Vancouver, and the State of Washington Office of Historic Preservation.
    The comprehensive management plan will take a long-range look at 
ways to protect the Reserve resources and opportunities for management 
and use, and will help determine management direction for the next 10 
to 15 years. One of the primary components of the plan is interpretive 
planning. Interpretive planning identifies the primary interpretive 
themes, recommends appropriate interpretive services, facilities, and 
programs that will best communicate the Historic Reserve's purpose, 
significance, compelling stories, themes, and values. The plan will 
also define roles and responsibilities of the Reserve partners and 
provide estimates of management, development, and operating costs and 
staffing needs.
    The legislation establishing the Reserve also directed that the 
Plan include an economic study for Pearson Field. The Partners will 
work to determine the scope of the study and to look at funding options 
in preparing the study as an attachment to the final plan.


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DATES: A newsletter will be issued in October 1997, that will describe 
the planning process and schedule, and list the draft purpose, 
significance, and interpretive themes for the Reserve.
    Public scoping meetings to discuss the planning process, solicit 
public input on the purpose, significance, and desired future 
conditions for the Reserve, and identify issues to be addressed in the 
EIS will be held on October 29, 1997, at 7:30 p.m. at the Doubletree 
Hotel at the Quay, 100 Columbia Street, Vancouver, Washington, and on 
October 30, 1997, at the Oregon Historical Society, Oregon History 
Center, 1200 S.W. Park Avenue, Portland, Oregon, at 12:00 noon.

ADDRESSES: As part of the scoping process, the public is encouraged to 
send written comments and suggestions concerning the preparation of the 
plan and EIS by November 14, 1997, to: Tony Sisto, Superintendent, Fort 
Vancouver National Historic Site, 612 E. Reserve Street, Vancouver, WA 
98661.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Contact Mr. Lawrence Beal, Planning Team 
Leader, at Vancouver National Historic Reserve Planning Team, Denver 
Service Center--Beal DSC/RP, 12795 West Alameda Parkway, PO Box 25287, 
Denver, CO 80225-9901, or call (505) 899-0205, ext. 224, or E-mail at: 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#8de1ecfffff4d2d2d2efe8ece1cde3fdfea3eae2fb"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="117d706363684e4e4e7374707d517f61623f767e67">[email protected]</span></a>. The NPS Internet Homepage at <a href="http://www.nps.gov/
planning">http://www.nps.gov/
planning</a> will also have the newsletter and further information about 
this plan and EIS.

    Dated: September 30, 1997.
Rory Westberg,
Superintendent, Columbia Cascades Support Office, Pacific West Region.
[FR Doc. 97-27106 Filed 10-10-97; 8:45 am]
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