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Pendleton, Oregon. The meeting is open

to the public. Public comments will be

received at 10 a.m. on February 13,

2001. The following topics will be

discussed by the council: RAC

membership update; Hells Canyon

Subgroup update; Blue Mountain

Subgroup update; ICBEMP Subgroup

update; OHV Subgroup update; Noxious

Weeds Subgroup udpate; Program of

work review; Counties Payment Act

(1608 Act); and a 15 minute round table

for general issues.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Sandy L. Guches, Bureau of Land

Management, Vale District Office, 100

Oregon Street, Vale, Oregon 97918,

Telephone (541) 473–3144

Sandy L. Guches,

Acting District Manager.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Final Supplemental Environmental

Impact Statement, Yosemite Valley

Plan, Yosemite National Park,

Mariposa, Madera, and Tuolumne

Counties, California; 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 regulations

promulgated by the Council on

Environmental Quality (40 CFR 1505.2),

the Department of the Interior, National

Park Service has prepared and approved

a Record of Decision for the Final

Supplemental Environmental Impact

Statement on the Yosemite Valley Plan

for Yosemite National Park. The

decisions reached are consistent with

the Revised Record of Decision for the

Merced Wild and Scenic River

Comprehensive Management Plan/Final

Environmental Impact Statement.

DECISION: The National Park Service

(NPS) will implement actions,

strategies, and programs encompassed

in Alternative 2 as described in the

Final Supplemental Environmental

Impact Statement on the Yosemite

Valley Plan. The selected alternative

provides for an overall combination of

actions to restore natural processes in

Yosemite Valley, preserve cultural

resource values, reduce harmful

environmental impacts (including those

related to traffic congestion), and

continue to provide opportunities for

high-quality visitor experiences based

upon resource values. This course of

action and four alternatives were

identified and analyzed in the Draft and

Final Supplemental Environmental

Impact Statements (issued April 2000

and November 2000 respectively). The

NPS identified Alternative 2 as

presented in the Final Supplemental

Environmental Impact Statement as the

‘‘environmentally preferred’’ alternative.

Elements of the selected alternative are

to be implemented as soon as practical.

PUBLIC REVIEW AND CONSULTATION: The

Draft and Final Supplemental

Environmental Impact Statements

(SEIS) on the Yosemite Valley Plan were

prepared by the NPS pursuant to the

National Environmental Policy Act. A

Notice of Intent to initiate this

conservation planning and

environmental impact analysis process

was published in the Federal Register

on December 16, 1998. General issues

and specific concerns already raised

during previous relevant planning

processes were provided to the public.

Scoping comments were received

through February 1, 1999. The Draft

Yosemite Valley Plan/SEIS was formally

announced for public review per Notice

of Availability published in the Federal

Register on April 13, 2000. The Final

Yosemite Valley Plan/SEIS was

announced on November 21, 2000.

From initiation of the scoping process

through December 26, 2000 when the

‘‘No Action’’ period for the Final

Yosemite Valley Plan/SEIS officially

concluded, almost 11,000 written

responses were received (all written

comments will be archived and

available for public review in the park’s

research library). In addition, over 150

public meetings, discussions, and

briefings (attended by over 1500

individuals and representatives of

organizations, Tribes, elected officials,

and congressional delegations) were

conducted in the park, throughout

California, and in Seattle, Washington;

Denver, Colorado; Chicago, Illinois; and

Washington, DC.

The NPS also consulted with various

regulatory and resource protection

agencies including the Advisory

Council on Historic Preservation, State

Historic Preservation Office, and the US

Fish and Wildlife Service. As a result of

these collaborations, as well as the

public involvement indicated above,

four action alternatives and appropriate

mitigation strategies were identified,

compared, and refined.

COPIES: Interested parties can review the

Record of Decision on the NPS website

at www.nps.gov/yose/planning. Copies

can also be obtained by contacting the

Superintendent, Yosemite National

Park, P.O. Box 577, Yosemite, California

95389; via telephone request at (209)

372–0261; or via email request at

yose_planning@nps.gov.

Dated: January 5, 2001.

William C. Walters,

Acting Regional Director, Pacific West Region.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Notice of Inventory Completion for

Native American Human Remains and

Associated Funerary Objects in the

Possession of the Utah Museum of

Natural History, Salt Lake City, UT, and

in the Control of the U.S. Department

of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation,

Upper Colorado Region, Salt Lake City,

UT

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

Notice is hereby given in accordance

with provisions of the Native American

Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

(NAGPRA), 43 CFR 10.9, of the

completion of an inventory of human

remains and associated funerary objects

in possession of the Utah Museum of

Natural History, Salt Lake City, UT, and

in control of the U.S. Department of the

Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Upper

Colorado Region, Salt Lake City, UT.

This notice is published as part of the

National Park Service’s administrative

responsibilities under NAGPRA, 43 CFR

102.2(c). The determinations within this

notice are the sole responsibility of the

museum, institution, or Federal agency

that has control of these cultural items.

The National Park Service is not

responsible for the determinations

within this notice.

A detailed assessment of the human

remains was made by the Bureau of

Reclamation and Utah Museum of

Natural History professional staff in

consultation with representatives of the

Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah; Kaibab

Band of Paiute Indians of the Kaibab

Indian Reservation, Arizona; San Juan

Southern Paiute Tribe of Arizona; White

Mesa Ute Tribe; Ute Indian Tribe of the

Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Utah;

Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the

Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado;

and the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute

Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New

Mexico & Utah.

In 1962, human remains representing

one individual were collected from a

site near Bicknell, Wayne County, UT,

under a memorandum of agreement

between the Department of