[Federal Register: June 26, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 123)]
[Notices]
[Page 33974-33975]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
Notice of Intent To Present for Public Review and Comment the
Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan for Bayou Cocodrie National
Wildlife Refuge in Concordia Parish, Louisiana
SUMMARY: This notice advises the public that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, Southeast Region, has made available for public review and
comment the Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan for Bayou Cocodrie
National Wildlife Refuge. The Service plans to conduct an open house
meeting at the refuge to solicit public comments on the draft plan. The
Service is furnishing this notice in compliance with its comprehensive
conservation planning policy, the National Environmental Policy Act,
and implementing regulations to achieve the following:
(1) Advise other agencies and the public of our intentions, and
(2) Obtain comments on the proposed plan and other alternatives
considered in the planning process.
DATES: The Service will hold the open house meeting on June 28, 2001,
from 2:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the refuge headquarters on Poole
Road, in Ferriday, Louisiana.
ADDRESSES: Comments and requests for copies of the draft plan should be
addressed to Mr. Mike Esters, Refuge Manager, Bayou Cocodrie National
Wildlife Refuge, P.O. Box 1772, Ferriday, Louisiana 71334, or by
calling (318) 336-7119. Comments must be received by August 13, 2001,
to be considered in the development of the final plan. Information
concerning the refuge may be found at the following website: http://
bayoucocodrie.fws.gov/.
If you wish to comment, you may submit your comments by any one of
several methods. You may mail comments to the above address. You may
also comment via the Internet to the following address:
Mike_Esters@fws.gov. Please submit Internet comments as an ASCII file
avoiding the use of special characters and any form of encryption.
Please also include your name and return address in your Internet
message. If you do not receive a confirmation from the system that we
have received your Internet message, contact us directly at Bayou
Cocodrie National Wildlife Refuge at the above address. Our practice is
to make comments, including names and home addresses of respondents,
available for public review during regular business hours. Individual
respondents may request that we withhold their home address from the
record, which we will honor to the extent allowable by law. There also
may be circumstances in which we would withhold from the record a
respondent's identity, as allowable by law. If you wish us to withhold
your name and/or address, you must state this prominently at the
beginning of your comment. However, we will not consider anonymous
comments. We will make all submissions from organizations or
businesses, and from individuals identifying themselves as
representatives or officials of organizations or businesses, available
for public inspection in their entirety.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Congress authorized the establishment of
Bayou Cocodrie National Wildlife Refuge on
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November 16, 1990, to protect some of the last remaining, least
disturbed bottomland hardwoods in the Lower Mississippi Valley.
Dated: June 12, 2001.
H. Dale Hall,
Acting Regional Director.
[FR Doc. 01-15971 Filed 6-25-01; 8:45 am]
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