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adversely impact or impair park

resources and values.

The DEIS/O&GMP analyzes three

alternatives that could be implemented

over the next 15–20 years for managing

existing and anticipated oil and gas

operations associated with the exercise

of nonfederal oil and gas interests

underlying the parks, and existing

transpark oil and gas pipelines and

activities in their associated rights-ofway. This planning effort will assist the

park staff protect park resources, visitor

use and experience, and human health

and safety, and prevent impairment to

park resources and values, while still

recognizing all rights associated with

outstanding nonfederal oil and gas

interests.

Alternative A, No Action/Current

Management, is required by the

National Environmental Policy Act and

describes the continued management of

oil and gas operations in the parks

under current legal and policy

requirements. Alternative B emphasizes

the development of a programmatic oil

and gas management plan that would

guide nonfederal oil and gas operations

in the parks. Special Management Areas

(SMAs) would be formally designated in

the parks where resources and values

would be particularly susceptible to

adverse impacts from oil and gas

operations, and operating stipulations

specific to each SMA would be applied.

Alternative B is the preferred

alternative, and the environmentally

preferred alternative. Alternative C

emphasizes avoiding new surface

disturbance and its associated impacts

throughout the parks. New drilling and

production operations would be

confined to the original footprint of 121

current production sites and could not

be located in SMAs where the No

Surface Use operating stipulation would

be proposed under Alternative B.

Impacts are analyzed on the following

topics: nonfederal oil and gas

development, adjacent landowners and

uses, air quality, geologic resources,

paleontological resources, floodplains

and water resources, vegetation,

wetlands, fish and wildlife, threatened

and endangered species, cultural

resources, and visitor use and

experience.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Superintendent, Lake Meredith National

Recreation Area and Alibates Flint

Quarries National Monument, at the

above address and telephone number.

Dated: May 1, 2001.

Jack Nickels,

Acting Director, Intermountain Region,

National Park Service.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Draft General Management Plan/

Environmental Impact Statement for

Olympic National Park, Washington

AGENCY: National Park Service; DOI.

ACTION: Notice of Intent to prepare an

Environmental Impact Statement for the

General Management Plan, Olympic

National Park, Washington.

SUMMARY: In Accordance with section

102(2)(C) of the National Environmental

Policy Act of 1969 (Public Law 91–190),

the Olympic National Park is initiating

an environmental impact analysis

process to identify and assess potential

impacts of alternative management

concepts for future management of the

Olympic National Park. Notice is hereby

given that the National Park Service will

prepare a general management plan and

environmental impact statement (GMP/

EIS).

Olympic National Park will identify

and analyze a range of alternatives so as

to evaluate differing management

options for resource protection, visitor

use, access, operations, facility

development, and land protection for

the area. As a conceptual framework for

formulating these alternatives, the

purpose of the park and associated

significant cultural and natural

resources, wilderness values, and major

visitor experiences will be specified.

Comments

All interested persons, organizations,

and agencies wishing to provide initial

scoping comments about issues or

concerns that should be addressed

during the GMP/EIS process may send

such information to the Superintendent,

Olympic National Park, 600 East Park

Ave., Port Angeles, Washington 98362–

9798. Written comments should be

postmarked no later that September 30,

2001.

In addition, several public scoping

sessions will be held after publication of

this Notice, affording an additional early

comment opportunity. Locations, dates,

and times of these meetings will be

provided in local and regional

newspapers, a scoping newsletter to be

mailed in late July 2001, and via the

Internet at www.nps.gov/olmy/

home.htm or www.nps.gov/planning/

index.htm. Inquiries regarding public

meetings may be directed to the contact

listed below.

All comments received will become

part of the public record and copies of

comments, including any names and

home addresses of respondents, may be

released for public inspection.

Individual respondents may request that

their home addresses be withheld from

the public record, which will be

honored to the extent allowable by law.

Requests to withhold names and/or

addresses must be stated prominently at

the beginning of the comments.

Anonymous comments will not be

considered. Submissions from

organizations or businesses, and from

individuals identifying themselves as

representatives or officials of

organizations or businesses, will be

made available for public inspection in

their entirety.

Because the responsibility for

approving the GMP/EIS has been

delegated to the National Park Service,

the EIS is a ‘‘delegated’’ EIS. The

responsible official is John J. Reynolds,

Regional Director, Pacific West Region,

National Park Service.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Superintendent, Olympic National Park,

600 East Park Ave., Port Angeles,

Washington 98362–9798; telephone

(360) 565–3001.

Dated: May 1, 2001.

Rory D. Westberg,

Superintendent, Columbia Cascades Support

Office, 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 University of Denver

Department of Anthropology and

Museum of Anthropology, Denver, CO

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 the possession of the University of

Denver Department of Anthropology

and Museum of Anthropology, Denver,

CO.

This notice is published as part of the

National Park Service’s administrative