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2009. An update will also be posted on 

the project Web site. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As noted 

above, persons who previously 

submitted comments on the proposed 

GMP need not resubmit those 

comments. The NPS already is 

considering that input as planning 

continues. However, persons who have 

not previously submitted comments on 

the scope of the EIS, or who wish to 

submit additional comments related to 

consideration of the Wilderness Study 

are encouraged to do so. 

Previously three public scoping 

sessions were held at Ventura, Santa 

Barbara, and Los Angeles during the 

week of November 12, 2001. Additional 

public meetings will be held during 

spring-summer, 2009, in Santa Barbara 

and Ventura to address the new 

wilderness study and to provide a GMP 

project update (a summary of all 

scoping results will also be available). 

The confirmed dates, times and 

locations of these meetings will be 

posted on the park’s web site, 

announced via local and regional news 

media, or may be obtained by telephone 

at (805) 658–5730. 

The conservation planning and 

environmental impact analysis 

supporting preparation of the GMP/ 

Wilderness Study will be conducted as 

noted above in accord with 

requirements of NEPA, CEQ and other 

appropriate Federal regulations, and 

NPS Director’s Order 12, Director’s 

Order 41, and other NPS procedures and 

policies. For further information, please 

contact the Superintendent, Channel 

Islands National Park, 1901 Spinnaker 

Drive, Ventura, CA 93001–4354; 

telephone (805) 658–5730. General 

information about Channel Islands 

National Park is available on the 

Internet at http://www.nps.gov/chis. 

Decision Process: Following final 

completion of the scoping phase and 

consideration of all public concerns and 

other agency comments, a Draft EIS and 

proposed GMP will be prepared and 

released for public review. The 

subsequent availability of the Draft EIS/ 

GMP will be announced by Federal 

Register notice and in local and regional 

news media. As a delegated EIS, the 

official responsible for the final decision 

on the GMP is the Regional Director, 

Pacific West Region, National Park 

Service. Following approval of the GMP 

the official responsible for 

implementation will be the 

Superintendent, Channel Islands 

National Park. 

Dated: February 19, 2009. 

Jonathan B. Jarvis, 

Regional Director, Pacific West Region. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Monocacy National Battlefield, 

Maryland 

AGENCY: Department of the Interior, 

National Park Service. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability, Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for the 

General Management Plan, Monocacy 

National Battlefield. 

SUMMARY: The National Park Service 

announces the availability of the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for the 

General Management Plan for Monocacy 

National Battlefield, Maryland. This 

document will be available for public 

review and comment pursuant to 

section 102(2)(C) of the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 

U.S.C. 4321) and National Park Service 

policy. 

DATES: A 60-day public comment period 

will begin with the Environmental 

Protection Agency’s publication of its 

notice of availability in the Federal 

Register. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

the General Management Plan are 

available at Monocacy National 

Battlefield, 4801 Urbana Pike, Frederick, 

Maryland 21701. An electronic copy of 

the DEIS and GMP is also available on 

the National Park Service Web site at 

http://parkplanning.nps.gov/mono. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Susan Trail, Superintendent, Monocacy 

National Battlefield, at 4801 Urbana 

Pike, Frederick, Maryland 21701, and by 

telephone at (301) 694–3147. The 

responsible official for the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement is 

Margaret O’Dell, Regional Director, 

National Capital Region, National Park 

Service, 1100 Ohio Drive, SW., 

Washington, DC 20242. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

document provides a framework for 

management, use, and development 

options for Monocacy National 

Battlefield by the National Park Service 

for the next 15 to 20 years. The 

document describes four management 

alternatives for consideration, including 

a no-action alternative, and analyzes the 

environmental impacts of those 

alternatives for all units of Monocacy 

National Battlefield. 

Alternative 4, the preferred 

alternative, would move park 

administration into the Thomas House 

and maintenance would continue at the 

Gambrill Mill site. Visitors would 

transit the battlefield in their 

automobiles. All historic structures 

would be preserved with exhibits in the 

Worthington House and Thomas 

outbuilding. New trails would be 

constructed and commemorative 

memorial locations would be upgraded. 

A pedestrian-only deck would be 

constructed over Interstate 270 between 

the Worthington and Thomas farms. 

The public is welcome to comment on 

the draft plan at http:// 

parkplanning.nps.gov/mono or by mail 

at Monocacy National Battlefield, 4801 

Urbana Pike, Frederick, Maryland 

21701. 

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. 

Dated: January 14, 2009. 

Margaret O’Dell, 

Regional Director, National Capital Region. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Reclamation 

Cle Elum Dam Fish Passage Facilities 

and Fish Re-Introduction Project; 

Kittitas County, WA 

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement. 

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

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act of 1969, as amended, the Bureau of 

Reclamation (Reclamation) proposes to 

prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) on the Cle Elum Dam 

Fish Passage Facilities and Fish ReIntroduction Project. The Washington 

State Department of Ecology (Ecology) 

will be a joint lead with Reclamation in 

the preparation of this EIS, which will 

also be used to comply with 

requirements of the Washington State 

Environmental Policy Act (SEPA). 

Reclamation is evaluating the 

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fish passage and upstream adult fish 

passage alternatives at the dam for the 

Cle Elum Dam Fish Passage Facilities 

Project. Cle Elum Dam did not include 

fish passage facilities when constructed 

in 1933; consequently, fish passage to 

upstream habitat for fish species was 

blocked. 

As part of the effort to restore fish 

above Cle Elum Dam, the Washington 

Department of Fish and Wildlife 

(WDFW), in collaboration with Yakama 

Nation, is evaluating the 

implementation of a proposed fish reintroduction project for populations 

above the dam. The re-introduction 

project would involve the use of 

hatchery supplementation techniques to 

restore fish above the dam. 

Early in 2001, Yakima River basin 

interest groups urged Reclamation to 

incorporate fish passage facilities as part 

of the reconstruction of Keechelus Dam 

under the Safety of Dams (SOD) 

program. Reclamation determined that 

fish passage facilities could not be 

added under existing SOD authority. 

However, in the January 2002 Record of 

Decision (ROD) for Keechelus Dam 

Modification EIS (Reclamation 2002), 

Reclamation committed to seek funding 

under existing authorities to conduct a 

feasibility study for providing fish 

passage at all Yakima Project storage 

dams. Additionally, Reclamation agreed 

to mitigation agreement terms and 

Hydraulic Project Approval (HPA) 

conditions with WDFW to investigate 

fish passage feasibility. In 2003, 

Reclamation prevailed in a suit filed by 

the Yakama Nation concerning the 

NEPA and Endangered Species Act 

compliance for the Keechelus SOD 

project. The Yakama Nation then 

appealed that decision to the 9th Circuit 

Court of Appeals. In 2006, Reclamation 

and the Yakama Nation entered into a 

settlement agreement to resolve 

litigation in which the parties agreed to 

collaborate to prepare technical plans 

and a planning report for fish passage at 

Cle Elum and Bumping Lake Dams. This 

EIS is part of the agreed-upon planning 

process for Cle Elum Dam only. An EIS 

for Bumping Lake fish passage will be 

prepared separately at a future time. 

DATES: A scoping meeting will be held 

on April 30, 2009, from 5:30 to 7:30 

p.m. at the location indicated under the 

ADDRESSES section. Written comments 

will be accepted through May 8, 2009, 

for inclusion in the scoping summary 

document. Requests for sign language 

interpretation for the hearing impaired 

or other special assistance needs should 

be submitted to David Kaumheimer, 

Environmental Program Manager, as 

indicated under the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION section by April 16, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Comments and requests to 

be added to the mailing list may be 

submitted to Bureau of Reclamation, 

Upper Columbia Area Office, Attention: 

David Kaumheimer, Environmental 

Program Manager, 1917 Marsh Road, 

Yakima, Washington 98901. 

The scoping meeting will be held at 

the Hal Holmes Center, 209 N. Ruby 

Street, Ellensburg, WA 98926. The 

meeting facility is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Contact 

David Kaumheimer, Environmental 

Program Manager, Telephone (509) 575– 

5848, ext. 232. TTY users may dial 711 

to obtain a toll-free TTY relay. 

Information on this project can also be 

found at http://www.usbr.gov/pn/ 

programs/ucao_misc/fishpassage/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Yakima Project Storage Dams Fish 

Passage Study is conducted under the 

authority of the Act of December 28, 

1979 (93 Stat. 1241, Pub. L. 96–162, 

Feasibility Study—Yakima River Basin 

Water Enhancement Project). Section 

1205 of Title XII of the Yakima River 

Basin Water Enhancement Project Act of 

October 31, 1994 (Pub. L. 103–434, as 

amended, 108 Stat. 4550) authorized 

fish, wildlife, and recreation as 

additional purposes of the Yakima 

Project. Section 1206 of Title XII of this 

Act authorizes Reclamation to construct 

juvenile (i.e., downstream) fish passage 

facilities at Cle Elum Dam under a cost 

ceiling. Section 109 of the Hoover 

Power Plant Act of August 17, 1984 

(Pub. L. 98–381, 98 Stat. 1340), 

authorizes Reclamation to design, 

construct, and operate fish passage 

facilities within the Yakima River basin 

that is in accordance with the NPCC’s 

Columbia River Fish and Wildlife 

Program. A companion law was enacted 

August 22, 1984, to provide, among 

other things, for operations and 

maintenance costs related to fish 

facilities (Pub. L. 98–396, 98 Stat. 1379). 

Alternatives are being developed to 

construct fish passage facilities for Cle 

Elum Dam which includes both 

downstream juvenile passage and 

upstream adult passage. The 

downstream passage facilities, as 

currently envisioned, would include an 

intake structure located just above the 

spillway inlet channel and a conduit 

through the right abutment of the dam. 

These modifications will provide 

surface releases in enough volume to 

attract migrating juvenile fish to an 

overflow gate in the reservoir that will 

lead to a conduit that will safely 

discharge the fish downstream from the 

dam. 

The proposed upstream fish passage 

would consist of a trap and haul facility. 

Fish collected at the facility would be 

placed into a fish transport truck and 

hauled upstream for release into the 

reservoir and upstream tributaries. 

The fish re-introduction project 

proposes to restore populations of 

sockeye salmon (Onchorynchus nerka), 

coho salmon (O. kisutch), spring 

chinook salmon (O. tshawytscha), 

summer steelhead (O. mykiss), and 

Pacific lamprey (Lampetra tridentata) 

through the use of hatchery 

supplementation techniques. Existing 

hatchery facilities would be used for the 

program and no new facilities would be 

constructed. The re-introduction project 

would initially focus on restoring coho 

salmon above Cle Elum Dam. The 

additional species would be added to 

the project incrementally over time. A 

strategy has been developed for nearterm, mid-term and long-term actions. 

Public Involvement 

Reclamation and Ecology in 

collaboration with WDFW will conduct 

a public scoping meeting to solicit 

comments on the alternatives for the Cle 

Elum Fish Passage Facilities and Fish 

Re-Introduction Project, and to identify 

potential issues and impacts associated 

with those alternatives. Reclamation 

and Ecology will summarize comments 

received during the scoping meeting 

and from letters of comment received 

during the scoping period, identified 

under the DATES section, into a scoping 

summary document that will be made 

available to those who have provided 

comments. It will also be available to 

others upon request. If you wish to 

comment, you may mail us your 

comments as indicated under the 

ADDRESSES section. 

Public Disclosure 

Before including your name, 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 may 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. 

Timothy Personius, 

Acting Regional Director, Pacific Northwest 

Region. 

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