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Dated: July 28, 2005.
Ernest Quintana,
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National Park Service
Fire Management Plan, Final
Environmental Impact Statement,
Saguaro National Park, AZ
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice of availability of the
Final Environmental Impact Statement
for the Fire Management Plan, Saguaro
National Park.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: Pursuant to National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42
U.S.C. 4332(C), the National Park
Service announces the availability of a
Final Environmental Impact Statement
for the Fire Management Plan, Saguaro
National Park, Arizona.
DATES: The National Park Service will
execute a Record of Decision (ROD) no
sooner than 30 days following
publication by the Environmental
Protection Agency of the Notice of
Availability of the Final Environmental
Impact Statement.
ADDRESSES: Information will be
available for public inspection in the
office of the Superintendent, Sarah
Craighead, Saguaro National Park,
Headquarters and Rincon Mountain
District, 3693 South Old Spanish Trail,
Tucson, AZ 85730–5601, phone 520–
733–5101; and at the following
locations:
Internet: https://www.nps.gov/sagu/
pphtml/documents.html.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kevin Parrish, Fuels Management
Specialist, Saguaro National Park,
Headquarters and Rincon Mountain
District, 3693 South Old Spanish Trail,
Tucson, AZ 85730–5601, phone 520–
733–5132, or Kevin_Parrish@nps.gov.
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Utah Museum of Natural History,
Environmental Impact Statement,
University of Utah and National Park
Service and as Joint Lead Agencies,
Salt Lake County, UT
The University of Utah and
National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
for the construction and operation of a
proposed new Utah Museum of Natural
History at the University of Utah.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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AGENCY:
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Dated: August 3, 2005.
Roger Maxwell,
Acting Director, Intermountain Region,
National Park Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42
U.S.C. 4332 (C) and (D) (NEPA), the
University of Utah and the National
Park Service as Joint Lead Agencies, are
preparing an Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) on the construction and
operation of a proposed new Utah
Museum of Natural History museum
facility at the University of Utah, Salt
Lake County, Utah.
The NEPA process is being followed
because federal funds, as grants through
the National Park Service, are
contributing to the design and
construction costs of the new museum
facility. The EIS will identify potential
environmental effects of construction
and operation of the proposed 169,000
square foot museum building, parking,
and related appurtenances and
mitigation measures to minimize
adverse environmental impacts on the
17-acre site provided to the Museum by
the University of Utah. This site is near
the University of Utah’s Research Park,
south of Red Butte Gardens and
Arboretum in Salt Lake County, Utah.
The Utah Public Lands Artifact
Preservation Act, Pub. L. 107–329,
enacted in 2002, authorizes the
Secretary of the Interior to make a grant
to the University of Utah to pay the
Federal share of the costs of
construction of a new facility including
design, planning, furnishing, and
equipping of the Museum. Seventy-five
percent of the Museum’s collection is
material recovered from federally
managed public lands including lands
administered by the National Park
Service. In January 2005, the Museum
initiated an Environmental Assessment
on the proposed project. After
completion of public scoping and the
identification of issues, the agencies
decided to prepare an EIS.
The EIS will analyze the proposed
action, a no action alternative,
alternative approaches to site and
facilities design and placement, and
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other reasonable alternatives, if any,
identified during the NEPA process. The
EIS will also consider mitigation
measures to minimize potential adverse
environmental effects. Based on current
information it is not expected that the
EIS alternatives will include alternative
sites for the museum facility, for several
reasons. (1) The University of Utah and
the Museum concluded a site selection
process in 1995, and in 1997 the
University of Utah Board of Trustees
reserved the Research Park site for use
by the Museum. Since that time
considerable resources have been
devoted to site planning, and substantial
private, state and federal financial
commitments have been received for
design, construction and operation of a
museum on the designated site. It would
not be practical or economically feasible
for the Museum to abandon this site for
an alternative location. (2) Congress, in
enacting the 2002 Utah Public Lands
Artifact Preservation Act and in making
subsequent appropriations,
contemplated that the new museum
would be located at the 17-acre
Research Park site and it authorized and
has since appropriated funding for a
facility at that site. (3) If the new
museum were built at an alternative
location, the Research Park site would
nonetheless still be developed, meaning
that there would not likely be a decrease
in overall impacts.
Issues that were identified by the
public during scoping for the EA and
that will be addressed in the EIS
include: vegetation and wildlife;
recreation and trail use; open space,
visual quality and aesthetics; traffic,
transportation and parking;
socioeconomics/cultural; air quality;
soils, geological and seismic concerns;
surface and groundwater quality and
management; consideration of
alternative sites; hazardous materials;
and archaeological, cultural, historic
and paleontological resources. Scoping
for the EA was conducted February 15
through March 16, 2005 with a scoping
meeting on March 8. The meeting was
widely publicized and was attended by
over 90 members of the public.
Approximately 350 comments were
received by letter or email. A scoping
brochure has been prepared that details
the issues identified to date. Copies of
the brochure may be obtained from the
project’s NEPA contractor, Bear West,
145 South 400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah
84111, phone (801) 355–8816. The
scoping brochure along with a request
for any additional scoping comments is
being mailed to the project mailing list
including those who attended the initial
scoping meeting or submitted written
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Fire Management Plan, Final Environmental Impact Statement,
Saguaro National Park, AZ
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability of the Final Environmental Impact
Statement for the Fire Management Plan, Saguaro National Park.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42
U.S.C. 4332(C), the National Park Service announces the availability of
a Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Fire Management Plan,
Saguaro National Park, Arizona.
DATES: The National Park Service will execute a Record of Decision
(ROD) no sooner than 30 days following publication by the Environmental
Protection Agency of the Notice of Availability of the Final
Environmental Impact Statement.
ADDRESSES: Information will be available for public inspection in the
office of the Superintendent, Sarah Craighead, Saguaro National Park,
Headquarters and Rincon Mountain District, 3693 South Old Spanish
Trail, Tucson, AZ 85730-5601, phone 520-733-5101; and at the following
locations:
Internet: https://www.nps.gov/sagu/pphtml/documents.html.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kevin Parrish, Fuels Management
Specialist, Saguaro National Park, Headquarters and Rincon Mountain
District, 3693 South Old Spanish Trail, Tucson, AZ 85730-5601, phone
520-733-5132, or Kevin--Parrish@nps.gov.
Dated: August 3, 2005.
Roger Maxwell,
Acting Director, Intermountain Region, National Park Service.
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