[Federal Register: April 30, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 84)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Availability of a Final Environmental Impact Statement
for the Lackawanna Valley National Heritage Area Management Pout
AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Availability of the final environmental impact statement for
the Lackawanna Valley National Heritage Area Management Plan.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental
Policy Act of1969, the National Park Service (NPS) announces the
availability of a Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for
Lackawanna Valley National Heritage Area Management Plan. The
Lackawanna Valley National Heritage Area Act of 2000 requires the
Lackawanna Heritage Valley Authority, with guidance from the NPS, to
prepare a Plan for the Lackawanna Heritage Valley. The Management Plan
is expected to: (A) Take into consideration State, county, and local
plans; (B) involve residents, public agencies, and private
organizations working in the Heritage Area, (C) include actions to be
undertaken by units of government and private organizations to protect
the resources of the Heritage Area and specify the existing and
potential sources of funding available to protect, manage, and develop
the Heritage Area.; (D) develop an inventory of the resources contained
in the Heritage Area, including a list of any property in the Heritage
Area that is related to the purposes of the Heritage Area and that
should be preserved, restored, managed, developed, or maintained
because of its historical, cultural, natural, recreational, or scenic
significance; (E) recommend policies for resource management that
considers and details application of appropriate land and water
management techniques, including the development of intergovernmental
cooperative agreements to protect the historical, cultural, natural,
and recreational resources of the Heritage Area is a manner that is
consistent with the support of appropriate and compatible economic
viability, (F) establish a program for implementation of the management
plan by the management entity that includes plans for restoration and
construction and specific commitments of the partners for the first 5
years of operation; (G) perform an analysis of ways in which local,
State, and Federal programs way best be coordinated to protect the
heritage resources, and (H) develop an interpretation plan for the
Heritage Area.
The study area, designated as the Lackawanna Valley National
Heritage Area, includes parts of the counties of: Lackawanna, Luzerne,
Wayne, and Susquehanna County, in northeastern Pennsylvania as
associated with the Lackawanna River corridor.
The NPS maintains one park site within the region: Steamtown
National Historic Site in Scranton. Otherwise the majority of land is
non-federal and the NPS assumes a management role only within their
park units. Instead, conservation, interpretation and other activities
are managed by partnerships among federal, state, and local governments
and private nonprofit organizations. The Lackawanna Heritage Valley
Authority manages the national heritage area. The NPS has been
authorized by Congress to provide technical and financial assistance
for a limited period. The Act prohibits the Secretary of the Interior
from providing any grant or other assistance pursuant to the Act after
September 30, 2012.
DATES: The FEIS will remain on Public Review for thirty days from the
publication of the notice in the Federal Register by the Environmental
Protection Agency.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peter Samuel, Project Leader, National
Park Service, Northeast Regional Office, U.S. Custom House, 200
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106,peter--samuel&nps.gov, 215-597-
1848.
If you correspond using the Internet, please include your name and
return address in your e-mail message. Our practice is to make
comments, including names and home addresses of respondents, available
for public review. 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.
Dated: March 16, 2003.
Marie Rust,
NPS Regional Director, Northeast Region
Editorial Note: This document was received at the Office of the
Federal Register April 26, 2004.
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