80 FR 13615 - Environmental Impact Statement for a Livestock Grazing and Trailing Management Plan at Capitol Reef National Park, Utah

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 50 (March 16, 2015)

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FR Document		2015-05976

The National Park Service (NPS) is preparing an Environmental Impact Statement for a Livestock Grazing and Trailing Management Plan (plan/EIS) for Capitol Reef National Park, Utah.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-IMR-CARE-17202; PPWONRADE2, PMP00EI05.YP0000]

Environmental Impact Statement for a Livestock Grazing and
Trailing Management Plan at Capitol Reef National Park, Utah

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of intent.

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SUMMARY: The National Park Service (NPS) is preparing an Environmental
Impact Statement for a Livestock Grazing and Trailing Management Plan
(plan/EIS) for Capitol Reef National Park, Utah.

DATES: Interested individuals, organizations, and agencies are
encouraged to provide written comments regarding the scope of issues to
be addressed in the plan/EIS. To be most helpful to the planning
process,

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the NPS requests comments be submitted by May 15, 2015. The NPS intends
to hold public open house meetings on the Livestock Grazing and
Trailing Management Plan EIS in Torrey, Utah, in Hanksville, Utah, and
via webinar during this scoping period. Specific dates, times, and
locations will be made available via a press release to local media, a
public scoping newsletter to be mailed or emailed to interested
parties, and on the NPS's Planning, Environment and Public Comment
(PEPC) Web site at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/care_lgtmp _eis. The NPS
will provide additional opportunities for the public to offer written
comments upon publication of the draft EIS.

ADDRESSES: Information will be available for public review online at
http://parkplanning.nps.gov/care_lgtmp_eis; and in the Capitol Reef
National Park offices at 52 W. Headquarters Drive, Torrey, UT 84775.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Contact Terry Fisk, Capitol Reef
National Park Chief Resource Management and Science, or Leah McGinnis,
Capitol Reef National Park Superintendent, at HC 70 Box 15, Torrey, UT
84775, or by telephone at (435) 425-4100.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The fundamental purpose of the national park
system is the conservation of our nation's natural and cultural
heritage on park lands for the enjoyment of current and future
generations. In some cases, Congress has mandated or authorized the
continuation of pre-existing uses on park lands in the legislation
establishing or authorizing a park unit, while still recognizing that
the National Park Service (NPS) must manage such uses consistent with
its overarching conservation mission.
This conservation mission extends to all units of the national park
system, including Capitol Reef National Park (Park), where Congress
directed the Secretary of the Interior, to allow certain activities to
continue on park lands under Public Law 92-207 and 100-446. Currently,
two of the 19 livestock grazing permits that existed prior to the
establishment of the Park--the Hartnet and Sandy 3 allotments--are
still active. In addition, eight pre-existing stock trails used by 7
permittees still cross the Park: Jones Bench, Grey Bench/Cathedral
Valley, Highway 24, Oak Creek, Pleasant Creek, Notom Road, Divide
Canyon and Dry Bench. The legislation for the park directs that
livestock grazing permittees who legally used park lands when the Park
was established may continue the practice during their lifetimes and
the lifetimes of their children who were born on or before
establishment of the park. The legislation for the Park also directs
that livestock trailing be allowed to continue in perpetuity across the
Park on traditional courses used by owners and operators of cattle
herds prior to December 18, 1971.
Historically, the NPS relied on the Bureau of Land Management to
permit and manage livestock grazing in the Park. However, between 2000
and 2010, the NPS assumed sole management responsibility for the two
active grazing allotments in the Park. As a result, the NPS is
preparing a plan/EIS to provide guidance to the Park and its permit
holders to promote the shared conservation and stewardship of the
Park's natural resources, ecological processes, and cultural resources
while still permitting livestock grazing and trailing in accordance
with the Park's enabling legislation. A plan is needed because the park
currently lacks a comprehensive approach for managing livestock grazing
and trailing in a manner that addresses the potential impacts of these
activities on the Park's resources, including plants and animals listed
under the Endangered Species Act and cultural resources protected under
the National Historic Preservation Act.
The NPS is the lead agency in this planning and EIS process. Other
agencies with special expertise have accepted an invitation or
requested to be cooperating agencies in the plan and EIS process,
including the Bureau of Land Management; Emery County, Utah; Garfield
County, Utah; Wayne County, Utah; and the State of Utah.
The Park has already held preliminary discussions with technical
specialists from these cooperating and other agencies and its permit
holders. Through these discussions, the park has identified potential
practices and tools that will be evaluated, along with any others that
are identified through the public scoping process, to create
alternatives for a long-term livestock grazing and trailing management
plan. The practices and tools identified initially range from increased
collaboration and communication with permittees, adjacent land
managers, and visitors; to phased, adaptive implementation (based on
monitoring results for desired resource and range conditions) of
constructed improvements (e.g., fencing) and active livestock
management practices (e.g., ongoing, ``hands-on'' management including
potential adjustments to timing, duration, intensity, and distribution
of grazing and trailing).
The NPS has prepared a scoping newsletter that provides more
information regarding the scope of the Livestock Grazing and Trailing
Management Plan EIS, including the initial practices and tools under
consideration. The newsletter has been distributed to interested
parties and will be posted, along with other scoping materials, to the
NPS PEPC Web site at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/care_lgtmp_eis.
If you wish to comment during the scoping process, the preferred
method for submitting comments is on the NPS PEPC Web site at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/care_lgtmp_eis. You may also mail comments to
Capitol Reef National Park at HC 70 Box 15, Torrey, UT 84775, or hand-
deliver them to 52 W. Headquarters Drive, Torrey, UT 84775.
Comments will also be accepted during public meetings; however,
comments in any format (hard copy or electronic) submitted on behalf of
others will not be accepted. Before including your address, phone
number, email address, or other personal identifying information in
your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment--including
your personal identifying information--may be made publicly available
at any time. While you can ask us in your comment to withhold your
personal identifying information from public review, we cannot
guarantee that we will be able to do so.

Dated: February 24, 2015.
Sue E. Masica,
Regional Director, Intermountain Region, National Park Service.
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of human remains and associated 25 organics (wood, seeds, and snail (aka Catawba Tribe of South Carolina)
funerary objects under the control of the shell), 1 piece of groundstone, 2,431 may proceed.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, pieces of miscellaneous stone/pebbles, The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Charleston District. The human remains 97 pieces of charcoal, and 258 pieces of Charleston District is responsible for
and funerary objects were removed from ochre (red and yellow). notifying the Catawba Indian Nation
Berkeley County, SC. (aka Catawba Tribe of South Carolina)
This notice is published as part of the Determinations Made by the U.S. Army
that this notice has been published.
National Park Service’s administrative Corps of Engineers, Charleston District
Dated: February 3, 2015.
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Officials of the U.S. Army Corps of
Melanie O’Brien,
U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 43 CFR 10.11(d). Engineers, Charleston District have
The determinations in this notice are determined that: Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
the sole responsibility of the museum, • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the [FR Doc. 2015–05996 Filed 3–13–15; 8:45 am]
institution, or Federal agency that has human remains described in this notice BILLING CODE 4312–50–P
control of the Native American human are Native American based on the
remains and associated funerary objects. physical characteristics of the human
The National Park Service is not remains, the method of interment, the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
responsible for the determinations in objects associated with the interments,
and the archaeological context of the Bureau of Land Management
this notice.
site. [ES–956–1420–BK ES–047171, Group 152,
Consultation • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the Wisconsin]
A detailed assessment of the human human remains described in this notice
remains was made by the U.S. Army represent the physical remains of 59 Notice of Cancellation of a Portion of
Corps of Engineers, Charleston District individuals of Native American Plat of Survey
professional staff in consultation with ancestry. On March 23, 1995 there was
representatives the Absentee-Shawnee • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), published in the Federal Register,
Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Alabama- the 102,358 objects described in this Volume 60, Number 56, on page 15301
Quassarte Tribal Town; Catawba Indian notice are reasonably believed to have a notice entitled ‘‘Filing of Plat of
Nation (aka Catawba Tribe of South been placed with or near individual Survey; Wisconsin.’’ In said notice was
Carolina); Cherokee Nation; Delaware human remains at the time of death or a plat depicting the survey of two
Tribe of Indians; Eastern Band of later as part of the death rite or islands located in Township 7 North,
Cherokee Indians; Eastern Shawnee ceremony. Range 22 East, Tracts 37 and 38, Fourth
Tribe of Oklahoma; Kialegee Tribal • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a
Town; Seminole Tribe of Florida Principal Meridian, Wisconsin,
relationship of shared group identity
(previously listed as the Seminole Tribe accepted March 13, 1995.
cannot be reasonably traced between the
of Florida (Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton, The plat, specifically the portion
Native American human remains and
Hollywood & Tampa Reservations)); identified as Tract 37, has been
associated funerary objects and any
Shawnee Tribe; The Chickasaw Nation; cancelled effective December 11, 2014.
present-day Indian tribe.
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; The • The 1760 Treaty of Pine Tree Hill Dominica VanKoten,
Muscogee (Creek) Nation; Thlopthlocco indicates that the land from which the Chief Cadastral Surveyor.
Tribal Town; Tuscarora Nation; and Native American human remains and [FR Doc. 2015–05901 Filed 3–13–15; 8:45 am]
United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee associated funerary objects were BILLING CODE P
Indians in Oklahoma. removed is aboriginal land of the
History and Description of the Remains Catawba Indian Nation (aka Catawba
Tribe of South Carolina). DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Between 1979 and 1981, human • Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the
remains representing, at minimum, 59 disposition of the human remains and National Park Service
individuals were removed from the associated funerary objects may be to
Swamp Site (38BK235), in Berkeley [NPS–IMR–CARE–17202; PPWONRADE2,
the Catawba Indian Nation (aka Catawba PMP00EI05.YP0000]
County, SC. The site was excavated by Tribe of South Carolina).
the South Carolina Institute of Environmental Impact Statement for a
Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA) Additional Requestors and Disposition
Livestock Grazing and Trailing
of Columbia, SC, prior to the Representatives of any Indian tribe or Management Plan at Capitol Reef
construction of the Cooper River Native Hawaiian organization not National Park, Utah
Rediversion Canal. Artifacts were stored identified in this notice that wish to
at SCIAA and the osteological materials request transfer of control of these AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
(human and animal remains) were sent human remains and associated funerary ACTION: Notice of intent.
to the University of Missouri, Columbia, objects should submit a written request
for analysis. Following analysis, the with information in support of the SUMMARY: The National Park Service
osteological material was returned to request to Mr. Alan Shirey, U.S. Army (NPS) is preparing an Environmental
SCIAA, which is the current location of Corps of Engineers, Charleston District, Impact Statement for a Livestock
the collection. No known individuals ATTN: CESAC–PM–PL, 69A Hagood Grazing and Trailing Management Plan
were identified. The 102,358 associated Ave., Charleston, SC 29403–5107, (plan/EIS) for Capitol Reef National
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funerary objects are 3 beads, 267 telephone (843) 329–8166, email Park, Utah.
ceramic sherds, 339 concretions, 96,899 alan.d.shirey@usace.army.mil, by April DATES: Interested individuals,
faunal fragments, 60 fossils (shell and 15, 2015. After that date, if no organizations, and agencies are
coral), 1,842 lithic flakes additional requestors have come encouraged to provide written
(orthoquartzite, chert, and quartz), 20 forward, transfer of control of the comments regarding the scope of issues
lithic tool fragments, 21 lots of faunal human remains and associated funerary to be addressed in the plan/EIS. To be
fragments, 95 lots of screened material, objects to the Catawba Indian Nation most helpful to the planning process,

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Action		Notice of intent.
Dates		Interested individuals, organizations, and agencies are encouraged to provide written comments regarding the scope of issues to
Contact		Contact Terry Fisk, Capitol Reef National Park Chief Resource Management and Science, or Leah McGinnis, Capitol Reef National Park Superintendent, at HC 70 Box 15, Torrey, UT 84775, or by telephone at (435) 425-4100.
FR Citation		80 FR 13615

80 FR 13615 - Environmental Impact Statement for a Livestock Grazing and Trailing Management Plan at Capitol Reef National Park, Utah

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORNational Park Service

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