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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Dog Management Plan; Golden Gate
National Recreation Area, Marin, San
Francisco and San Mateo Counties,
CA; Notice of Intent To Prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement
Summary: Under the provisions of the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, the National Park Service (NPS) is
preparing an environmental impact
statement for a Dog Management Plan
for Golden Gate National Recreation
Area (GGNRA). The purpose of the Dog
Management Plan is to provide clear,
enforceable guidelines to determine the
manner and extent of dog-walking use
in appropriate areas of the park. The
objectives are to protect and preserve
natural and cultural resources; provide
a variety of visitor experiences; improve
visitor and employee safety; reduce user
conflicts; and to maintain park
resources and values for future
generations. The Dog Management Plan
will also address public desire to walk
dogs off-leash in certain areas of
GGNRA.
Background: A dog management plan
is needed at this time because the
existing NPS regulation governing dogs
in parks, codified at 36 CFR 2.15, has
not been effective in resolving
longstanding, controversial resource
management and public use conflicts
and safety issues at GGNRA. If no action
is taken, GGNRA resources and values
could be compromised to the extent that
areas of the park may not be available
for enjoyment by future generations. A
history of a dog management policy that
has been inconsistent with NPS
regulations has resulted in controversy
and litigation, compromised visitor and
employee safety, affected visitor
experience and resulted in resource
degradation. The conflicts will likely
escalate if not addressed in a
comprehensive dog management plan.
In order to implement a dog
management plan that may allow offleash dog walking, a special federal
regulation would need to be
promulgated governing dog walking in
GGNRA.
Largely because of intense public
interest and debate regarding dog
walking, GGNRA has decided to use a
negotiated rulemaking process to reach
consensus on a proposed regulation for
the management of dogs within the
park. Although each process has its own
separate legal requirements, the
negotiated rulemaking process will run
concurrently with the preparation of the
EIS in order to facilitate informed
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decision-making. GGNRA intends to
create a Negotiated Rulemaking
Committee, consistent with the
Negotiated Rulemaking Act and the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, made
up of representatives of interest groups
that could be affected by a change to the
current regulation governing dogs. The
Negotiated Rulemaking Committee will
negotiate to reach consensus on
concepts and language to use as the
basis for a special regulation for dog
management at GGNRA. If the
Committee reaches a consensus on most
or many issues, that consensus would
be incorporated into one or more
alternatives in the Draft EIS and if
selected, would ultimately become the
basis of a special regulation for dogwalking within GGNRA.
Scoping Process: To be most helpful
to the scoping process necessary to
inform preparation of the dog
management plan and Draft EIS,
comments regarding the scope of the
plan/EIS, relevant environmental
information, or issues or concerns are
encouraged. All comments must be
postmarked or transmitted not later than
30 days after publication of this notice
in the Federal Register; immediately
upon confirmation of this date it will be
announced on the park’s Web site
(https://www.nps.gov/goga). The NPS
intends to conduct public scoping
meetings in the GGNRA area in early
2006. Please check the park’s Web site,
the NPS planning, environment, and
public comment (PEPC) Web site
(https://parkplanning.nps.gov/goga), or
telephone the GGNRA Negotiated
Rulemaking Information Line (415) 561–
4728 for current information on when
and where these meetings will be held.
To request a sign language interpreter
for a meeting, please call Mike Feinstein
at (415) 561–4733 a week in advance of
the meeting.
Regularly updated information
regarding this project can be found on
the GGNRA and PEPC websites, and
will be available for public review at the
park’s visitor centers at Fort Mason,
Pacifica, Presidio, Marin Headlands and
Muir Woods. A public scoping brochure
that further explains the purpose, needs,
issues, and objectives of the plan/EIS
will also be available before the
meetings. Copies of the brochure will be
sent to those on the Dog Management
Plan mailing list, or may be obtained on
the GGNRA or PEPC websites, or at the
GGNRA visitor centers at Fort Mason,
Presidio, Pacifica, Marin Headlands and
Muir Woods.
All interested individuals and
organizations may submit comments
online through the PEPC website (https://
parkplanning.nps.gov/goga). Click on
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‘‘Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Dog Management Plan’’ and follow the
instructions on the website. Detailed
written comments may also be sent to
the attention of the Superintendent,
GGNRA, Fort Mason, Building 201, San
Francisco, CA 94123.
Please note that names and addresses
of people who comment become part of
the public record. If individuals
commenting request that their name
and/or address be withheld from public
disclosure, it will be honored to the
extent allowable by law. Such requests
must be stated prominently in the
beginning of the comments. There also
may be circumstances wherein the NPS
will withhold from the record a
respondent’s identity, as allowable by
law. As always: The NPS will make
available to public inspection all
submissions from organizations or
businesses and from persons identifying
themselves as representatives or
officials of organizations and
businesses; and, anonymous comments
may not be considered.
When using PEPC to comment, if you
would like your name and/or address
withheld from the public record but
would like to receive future mailings on
the project, you may fill in the name
and address field, and mark ‘‘keep my
contact information private’’. If you do
not want to receive any additional
information on the project in the future
and are only using PEPC to comment,
you may put N/A in the name and
address field.
Decision Process: At this time it is
anticipated that the draft plan/EIS will
be made available for public review in
late fall, 2006. Availability of the draft
document will be formally announced
through the publication of a Notice of
Availability in the Federal Register, as
well as through local and regional news
media, the GGNRA and PEPC websites,
and direct mailing to the project mailing
list. Public meetings on the draft plan/
EIS will also be held following its
release; as soon as dates and locations
are determined these will be announced
via local and regional press and direct
mailings. As a delegated EIS, the official
responsible for approval of the Record
of Decision is the NPS Regional
Director, Pacific West Region;
subsequently the official responsible for
implementation is the Superintendent,
Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
Dated: November 2, 2005.
George J. Turnbull,
Acting Regional Director, Pacific West Region.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Forest
Service, Shoshone National Forest,
Cody, WY, and Buffalo Bill Historical
Center, Cody, WY
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice is here given in accordance
with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act
(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the
completion of an inventory of human
remains and associated funerary object
in the control of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Forest Service, Shoshone
National Forest, Cody, WY, and in the
physical custody of the Buffalo Bill
Historical Center, Cody, WY. The
human remains and associated funerary
object were removed from the Mummy
Cave site, Park County, WY.
This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations
in this notice are the sole responsibility
of the museum, institution, or Federal
agency that has control of the Native
American human remains and
associated funerary object. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the human
remains was made by Buffalo Bill
Historical Center professional staff in
consultation with representatives of the
Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River
Reservation, Wyoming and ShoshoneBannock Tribes of the Fort Hall
Reservation of Idaho.
Between 1963 and 1966, human
remains representing a minimum of one
individual were removed from the
Mummy Cave site, west of Cody, Park
County, WY, by Harold McCracken. The
human remains were removed from
lands managed by the U.S. Forest
Service and have been curated at the
Buffalo Bill Historical Center since their
removal. No known individual was
identified. The one associated funerary
object is a mountain sheep hide that was
used to wrap the individual.
The individual was mummified and
wrapped in a mountain sheep hide,
which provided a radiocarbon date of
110 ± 1251 B.P. A study and report on
the human remains was undertaken by
Susan Hughes of the University of
Washington and a team of physicians
from the Paleopathology Association,
Toledo, OH. No destructive testing was
undertaken.
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Mummy Cave contains several levels
of human occupation. The human
remains, representing an older Native
American male, were recovered from an
intentional stone-covered burial in level
3 of the cave. Archeological evidence
from several levels of the site provides
dates that are consistent with
occupation of this area by the Plains and
Great Basin people. Level 3 has been
identified as Great Basin or Sheepeater,
and level 1 as Shoshonean. There are
historical ties between Sheepeater
people and the Shoshonean people. The
present-day Shoshonean tribes that
consider themselves descendants of the
Sheepeater are the Shoshone Tribe of
the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
and the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the
Fort Hall Reservation of Idaho.
Officials of the Shoshone National
Forest have determined that, pursuant
to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the human
remains described above represent the
physical remains of one individual of
Native American ancestry. Officials of
Shoshone National Forest also have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001(3)(A), the one object described
above is reasonably believed to have
been placed with or near individual
human remains at the time of death or
later as part of the death rite or
ceremony. Lastly, officials of the
Shoshone National Forest have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001(2), there is a relationship of shared
group identity that can be reasonably
traced between the Native American
human remains and the associated
funerary object and the Shoshone Tribe
of the Wind River Reservation,
Wyoming and Shoshone-Bannock
Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation of
Idaho.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains and
associated funerary object should
contact Emma Hansen, Curator, Plains
Indian Museum, Buffalo Bill Historical
Center, 720 Sheridan Avenue, Cody,
WY 82414, telephone (307) 587–4771
extension 4052, before March 24, 2006.
Repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary object to the
Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River
Reservation, Wyoming and ShoshoneBannock Tribes of the Fort Hall
Reservation of Idaho may proceed after
that date if no additional claimants
come forward.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Forest Service, Shoshone National
Forest is responsible for notifying the
Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River
Reservation, Wyoming; Crow Tribe of
Montana; Shoshone Tribe of the Wind
River Reservation, Wyoming; and
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Dog Management Plan; Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Marin,
San Francisco and San Mateo Counties, CA; Notice of Intent To Prepare
an Environmental Impact Statement
Summary: Under the provisions of the National Environmental Policy
Act of 1969, the National Park Service (NPS) is preparing an
environmental impact statement for a Dog Management Plan for Golden
Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA). The purpose of the Dog
Management Plan is to provide clear, enforceable guidelines to
determine the manner and extent of dog-walking use in appropriate areas
of the park. The objectives are to protect and preserve natural and
cultural resources; provide a variety of visitor experiences; improve
visitor and employee safety; reduce user conflicts; and to maintain
park resources and values for future generations. The Dog Management
Plan will also address public desire to walk dogs off-leash in certain
areas of GGNRA.
Background: A dog management plan is needed at this time because
the existing NPS regulation governing dogs in parks, codified at 36 CFR
2.15, has not been effective in resolving longstanding, controversial
resource management and public use conflicts and safety issues at
GGNRA. If no action is taken, GGNRA resources and values could be
compromised to the extent that areas of the park may not be available
for enjoyment by future generations. A history of a dog management
policy that has been inconsistent with NPS regulations has resulted in
controversy and litigation, compromised visitor and employee safety,
affected visitor experience and resulted in resource degradation. The
conflicts will likely escalate if not addressed in a comprehensive dog
management plan.
In order to implement a dog management plan that may allow off-
leash dog walking, a special federal regulation would need to be
promulgated governing dog walking in GGNRA.
Largely because of intense public interest and debate regarding dog
walking, GGNRA has decided to use a negotiated rulemaking process to
reach consensus on a proposed regulation for the management of dogs
within the park. Although each process has its own separate legal
requirements, the negotiated rulemaking process will run concurrently
with the preparation of the EIS in order to facilitate informed
decision-making. GGNRA intends to create a Negotiated Rulemaking
Committee, consistent with the Negotiated Rulemaking Act and the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, made up of representatives of interest
groups that could be affected by a change to the current regulation
governing dogs. The Negotiated Rulemaking Committee will negotiate to
reach consensus on concepts and language to use as the basis for a
special regulation for dog management at GGNRA. If the Committee
reaches a consensus on most or many issues, that consensus would be
incorporated into one or more alternatives in the Draft EIS and if
selected, would ultimately become the basis of a special regulation for
dog-walking within GGNRA.
Scoping Process: To be most helpful to the scoping process
necessary to inform preparation of the dog management plan and Draft
EIS, comments regarding the scope of the plan/EIS, relevant
environmental information, or issues or concerns are encouraged. All
comments must be postmarked or transmitted not later than 30 days after
publication of this notice in the Federal Register; immediately upon
confirmation of this date it will be announced on the park's Web site
(https://www.nps.gov/goga). The NPS intends to conduct public scoping
meetings in the GGNRA area in early 2006. Please check the park's Web
site, the NPS planning, environment, and public comment (PEPC) Web site
(https://parkplanning.nps.gov/goga), or telephone the GGNRA Negotiated
Rulemaking Information Line (415) 561-4728 for current information on
when and where these meetings will be held. To request a sign language
interpreter for a meeting, please call Mike Feinstein at (415) 561-4733
a week in advance of the meeting.
Regularly updated information regarding this project can be found
on the GGNRA and PEPC websites, and will be available for public review
at the park's visitor centers at Fort Mason, Pacifica, Presidio, Marin
Headlands and Muir Woods. A public scoping brochure that further
explains the purpose, needs, issues, and objectives of the plan/EIS
will also be available before the meetings. Copies of the brochure will
be sent to those on the Dog Management Plan mailing list, or may be
obtained on the GGNRA or PEPC websites, or at the GGNRA visitor centers
at Fort Mason, Presidio, Pacifica, Marin Headlands and Muir Woods.
All interested individuals and organizations may submit comments
online through the PEPC website (https://parkplanning.nps.gov/goga).
Click on
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``Golden Gate National Recreation Area Dog Management Plan'' and follow
the instructions on the website. Detailed written comments may also be
sent to the attention of the Superintendent, GGNRA, Fort Mason,
Building 201, San Francisco, CA 94123.
Please note that names and addresses of people who comment become
part of the public record. If individuals commenting request that their
name and/or address be withheld from public disclosure, it will be
honored to the extent allowable by law. Such requests must be stated
prominently in the beginning of the comments. There also may be
circumstances wherein the NPS will withhold from the record a
respondent's identity, as allowable by law. As always: The NPS will
make available to public inspection all submissions from organizations
or businesses and from persons identifying themselves as
representatives or officials of organizations and businesses; and,
anonymous comments may not be considered.
When using PEPC to comment, if you would like your name and/or
address withheld from the public record but would like to receive
future mailings on the project, you may fill in the name and address
field, and mark ``keep my contact information private''. If you do not
want to receive any additional information on the project in the future
and are only using PEPC to comment, you may put N/A in the name and
address field.
Decision Process: At this time it is anticipated that the draft
plan/EIS will be made available for public review in late fall, 2006.
Availability of the draft document will be formally announced through
the publication of a Notice of Availability in the Federal Register, as
well as through local and regional news media, the GGNRA and PEPC
websites, and direct mailing to the project mailing list. Public
meetings on the draft plan/EIS will also be held following its release;
as soon as dates and locations are determined these will be announced
via local and regional press and direct mailings. As a delegated EIS,
the official responsible for approval of the Record of Decision is the
NPS Regional Director, Pacific West Region; subsequently the official
responsible for implementation is the Superintendent, Golden Gate
National Recreation Area.
Dated: November 2, 2005.
George J. Turnbull,
Acting Regional Director, Pacific West Region.
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