6218 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 25 / Monday, February 8, 2010 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Availability of Draft Director’s 

Order Concerning National Park 

Service (NPS) Policies and Procedures 

for Recovering Costs Associated With 

Providing Utility Services to Non-NPS 

Users 

AGENCY: National Park Service, 

Department of the Interior. 

ACTION: Modification to notice of 

availability (re-opening of public 

comment period). 

SUMMARY: The National Park Service is 

proposing to adopt a Director’s Order 

setting forth the policies and procedures 

under which the NPS will recover 

expenses for providing utilities to nonNPS entities. These expenses include, 

but are not limited to, annual operating 

costs, cyclical repair and rehabilitation 

costs, and capital investment cost. 16 

U.S.C. lb(4) provides authority for the 

NPS to furnish ‘‘on a reimbursement of 

appropriation basis, all types of utility 

services to concessioners, contractors, 

permittees, or other users of such 

services, within the National Park 

System’’. The Director’s Order provides 

policies and procedures for consistent 

application of this guidance throughout 

the National Park Service. 

DATES: In recognition of obstacles 

imposed by the presence of two major 

holidays within the original public 

comment period, and to ensure full 

participation by all concerned entities, 

the period for acceptance of written 

comments has been re-opened. 

Comments will be accepted until March 

6, 2010. All comments submitted 

between the close of the initial comment 

period and the re-opening of the 

comment period will be considered. 

ADDRESSES: Draft Director’s Order #35B 

is available on the Internet at http:// 

www.nps.gov/policy/DO–35Bdraft.htm. 

Requests for copies of, and written 

comments on, the Director’s Order 

should be sent to Tim Harvey, Chief, 

Park Facility Management Division, 

1849 C Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20240, or to his Internet address: tim 

harvey@aps.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tim 

Harvey at (202) 513–7044. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When the 

NPS adopts documents containing new 

policy or procedural requirements that 

may affect parties outside the NPS, the 

documents are first made available for 

public review and comment before 

being adopted. A number of contacts 

have been made, prior to the issuance of 

this notice, to solicit input from 

potentially impacted groups and 

organizations. 

Public Availability of Comments: 

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: December 9, 2009. 

Stephen E. Whitesell, 

Associate Director, Park Planning, Facilities, 

and Lands. 

[FR Doc. 2010–2234 Filed 2–5–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Reclamation 

New Melones Lake Area Resource 

Management Plan, Tuolumne and 

Calaveras Counties, CA 

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of the 

Final Resource Management Plan/ 

Environmental Impact Statement (RMP/ 

EIS). 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (as 

amended), the Bureau of Reclamation 

(Reclamation) has made available for 

public review a Final RMP/EIS for the 

New Melones Lake Area. The Final 

RMP/EIS describes and presents the 

environmental effects of four 

alternatives, including no action, for 

future use of the project area for 

recreation and resource protection and 

management. 

A Notice of Availability of the joint 

Draft RMP/EIS was published in the 

Federal Register on November 2, 2009 

(74 FR 56656). The written comment 

period on the Draft RMP/EIS ended on 

January 4, 2010. The Final RMP/EIS 

contains responses to all comments 

received and reflects comments and any 

additional information received during 

the review period. 

DATES: Reclamation will not make a 

decision on the proposed action until at 

least 30 days after release of the Final 

RMP/EIS. After the 30-day waiting 

period, Reclamation will complete a 

Record of Decision (ROD). The ROD will 

state the action that will be 

implemented and will discuss all factors 

leading to the decision. 

ADDRESSES: Send requests for a compact 

disc or a bound copy of the Final RMP/ 

EIS to Melissa Vignau, Natural 

Resources Specialist, Bureau of 

Reclamation, 7794 Folsom Dam Road, 

Folsom, CA 95630, or telephone: 916– 

989–7182. Copies of the Final RMP/EIS 

will be available for review at: http:// 

www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/ 

nepa_projdetails.cfm?Project_ID=2536. 

See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

Section for locations where copies of the 

Final RMP/EIS are available for public 

review. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Melissa Vignau, Natural Resources 

Specialist, Bureau of Reclamation, at 

916–989–7182 or Dan Holsapple, Acting 

New Melones Resource Manager, 

Bureau of Reclamation, at 209–536– 

9094. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

planning activity encompasses 

approximately 30,000 acres of publicly 

accessible water and land owned and 

managed by Reclamation. The RMP, 

which will replace the New Melones 

Lake Area Master Plan of 1976, will be 

the primary management document for 

Reclamation’s New Melones Lake Area, 

providing a defined purpose, vision, 

long-term goals, and management 

guidelines. It will be used by 

Reclamation as a framework for guiding 

decision-making related to future 

development potential, on-going 

management, public health and safety, 

and public use of the New Melones Lake 

Area. 

The RMP attempts to enhance and 

expand the recreation opportunities 

while also providing more active 

protection and management of natural 

and cultural resources. The RMP is 

intended to be implemented over an 

extended period as determined by both 

user demand and need. To do so, the 

RMP provides goals and guidelines 

relating to natural, cultural and visual 

resources, water quality, circulation, 

visitor services, interpretation and 

operations. 

The EIS is a program-level analysis of 

the potential environmental impacts 

associated with adoption of the RMP. 

The RMP is intended to be 

predominantly self-mitigating through 

implementation of RMP policies and 

management strategies, and the EIS will 

also include measures intended to 

reduce the adverse effects of the RMP. 

Copies of the Final EIS are available 

for public review at the following 

locations: 

• Bureau of Reclamation, Central 

California Area Office, New Melones 

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