[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 1 (Tuesday, January 3, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 144-145]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-32229]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service


Draft Comprehensive Management and Use Plan/EIS, Jaun Bautista de 
Anza National Historic Trail; Notice of Management Proposals and Notice 
of Availability of Draft Environmental Impact Statement

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969 (P.L. 91-190 as amended), the National Park Service 
has prepared an environmental impact statement (EIS) and Comprehensive 
Management and Use Plan for the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic 
Trail.
    The Draft Comprehensive Management and Use Plan/Environmental 
Impact Statement presents a proposal and three alternatives for the 
management, use, and development of the Juan Bautista de Anza National 
Historic Trail. The proposal (alternative D) calls for marking the 
historic route, identifies an auto route, and envisions a continuous 
multi-use recreational retracement trail. The National Park Service 
(NPS) will take an active role in administrative oversight of the trail 
by helping protect a continuous trail right-of-way and historic, 
cultural, and natural resources associated with the trail. The NPS will 
certify eligible sites and segments and provide leadership for state, 
regional, and local governments, private landowners, organizations, 
corporations, and individuals to create a continuous and unified trail. 
The NPS will form a partnership with a non-profit trail association for 
the Anza Trail under the auspices of Heritage Trails Fund. Interpretive 
programs and a system of wayside exhibits will enhance visitor 
opportunities along the route. A planned promotional and tourism 
program will increase visitor awareness of American Indian and Spanish 
Colonial culture and history related to the 1775-76 Anza colonizing 
expedition to San Francisco Bay.
    The other alternatives included in this document include a Single 
Theme (alternative A), Multi-theme (alternative B), and Broad Outreach 
(alternative C). Because action was legislated, a pure no action 
alternative is not considered. Alternative A most closely resembles the 
no action alternative required in an Environmental Impact Statement 
(EIS). Alternative A would limit trail recognition and resource 
protection to federal lands and state parks and focus interpretation on 
only the 1775-76 Anza trek. Trail uses would be limited to those of the 
original expedition. Management would emphasize volunteers, and the 
National Park Service would play a minor role. Alternative B is similar 
to the proposal but would not have the promotional aspects. Alternative 
C is similar to the proposal, but would broaden the interpretive themes 
to the overlay of history along the trail route from prehistory to the 
present and would include a list of points of interest associated with 
the trail. [[Page 145]] 
    The environmental consequences of the proposed action and 
alternatives are addressed at a level suitable to a management policy 
plan. This programmatic EIS considers impacts to cultural resources, 
natural resources, and the socio-economic environment. More detailed 
environmental analysis for specific trail projects is expected to 
follow in tiered environmental documents.

Supplementary information: The public review period for this document 
will end 60 days after the publication of the Notice of Availability in 
the Federal Register. Comments will be accepted until March 1, 1995. 
All review comments must be received by that time and should be 
addressed to Regional Director, Western Region, Attention Meredith 
Kaplan, National Park Service, 600 Harrison Street, Suite 600, San 
Francisco, CA 94107-1372.
    For copies of the Comprehensive Management and Use Plan/EIS or 
further information on the documents, please contact the above address 
or telephone 415/744-3968. Copies of the documents are also available 
at national parks along the route and county park and planning agencies 
and libraries along the route.

    Dated: December 16, 1994.
Ray Murray,
Regional Director, Western Region.
[FR Doc. 94-32229 Filed 12-30-94; 8:45 am]
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