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be made publicly available at any time.
While you can ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information, we cannot guarantee that
we will be able to do so.
Classification Comments: Interested
parties may submit comments involving
the suitability of the lands for
conveyance for the closed landfill and
solid waste transfer facilities. Comments
on the classification(s) are restricted to
whether the land is physically suited for
the proposal, whether the use will
maximize the future use or uses of the
land, and whether the use is consistent
with local planning and zoning, or if the
use is consistent with State and Federal
programs.
Application Comments: Interested
parties may submit comments regarding
the specific use proposed in the
application and plan of development,
whether the BLM followed proper
administrative procedures in reaching
the decision; or any other factor not
directly related to the suitability of the
lands for closed landfill and solid waste
transfer facilities. Any adverse
comments will be reviewed by the State
Director, who may sustain, vacate, or
modify this realty action. In the absence
of any adverse comments, the
classification will become effective 60
days after March 27, 2007.
(Authority: 43 CFR 2741.5)
Dated: February 5, 2007.
William Lanning,
Associate Field Manager.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
60-Day Notice of Intention To Request
Clearance of Collection of Information;
Opportunity for Public Comment
Department of the Interior,
National Park Service.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.

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AGENCY:

SUMMARY: Under provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and 5
CFR Part 1320, Reporting and Record
Keeping Requirements, the National
Park Service (NPS) invites public
comments on an extension of a
currently approved collection of
information (OMB#1024–0224).
DATES: Public comments will be
accepted on or before May 29, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Send Comments To: Dr.
James H. Gramann, NPS Visiting Chief
Social Scientist; NPS Social Science

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Program, Texas A & M University, 225–
B Francis Hall, 2261, College Station,
TX 77843; Voice: 202–513–7189; Fax:
202–371–2131; E-mail:
[email protected]. Also,
you may send comments to Leonard
Stowe, NPS, Information Collection
Clearance Officer, 1849 C St., NW.
(2065), Washington, DC 20240, or by email at [email protected]. All
responses to this notice will be
summarized and included in the request
for the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approval. All comments
will become a matter of public record.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Megan McBride, NPS Social Science
Senior Research Associate; c/o NPS Air
Resource Division, P.O. Box 25287,
Denver, Co 80225; Voice: 303–969–
2814; E-mail: Megan_McBride@
contractor.nps.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Programmatic Approval for
NPS-Sponsored Public Surveys.
Bureau Form Number: None.
OMB Number: 1024–0224.
Expiration Date: 1/31/2008.
Type of Request: Extension for a
currently approved collection.
Description of Need: The NPS needs
information concerning park visitors
and visitor services, potential park
visitors, and residents of communities
near parks to provide park and NPS
managers with usable knowledge for
improving the quality and utility of
agency programs, services, and planning
efforts.
Since many of the NPS surveys are
similar in terms of the populations
being surveyed, the types of questions
being asked, and research
methodologies, the NPS proposed to
and received clearance from OMB for a
program of review for NPS-sponsored
public surveys (OMB #1024–0224 exp.
8/31/2001; 3-year extension granted,
exp. 9/30/2004; 3-year extension
granted, exp. 1/31/2008).
The program presented an alternative
approach to complying with the
Paperwork Reduction Act. In the eight
year since the NPS received clearance
for the program of expedited review,
371 public surveys have been conducted
in units of the National Park System.
The benefits of this program have been
significant to the NPS, Department of
Interior, OMB, NPS cooperators, and the
public. Significant time and cost savings
have been incurred. Expedited approval
was typically granted in 60 days or less
from the date the Principal Investigator
first submitted the survey package for
review. This is a significant reduction
over the approximate 6–8 months
involved in the standard OMB review

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process. From FY 1999 through FY
2006, the expedited review process has
accounted for a cost savings to the
federal government and PIs estimated at
$723,087.
Comments are invited on: (1) The
practical utility of the information being
gathered; (2) the accuracy of the burden
hour estimate; (3) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4)
ways to minimize the burden to
respondents, including use of
automated information collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology. Before including your
address, phone number, e-mail 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.
Automated data collection: At the
present time, there is no automated way
to gather this information, since the
information gathering process involves
asking the public for their opinions on
services and facilities that they used
during their visits, services and facilities
they are likely to use on future park
visits, and opinions regarding park
management. The burden on
individuals is minimized by rigorously
designing public surveys to maximize
the ability of the surveys to use small
samples of individuals to represented
large populations of the public, and by
coordinating the program of surveys to
maximize the ability of new surveys to
build on the findings of prior surveys.
Description of respondents: A sample
of visitors to parks, potential visitors to
parks, and residents of communities
near parks.
Estimated average number of
respondents: The program does not
identify the number of respondents
because that number will differ in each
individual survey, depending on the
purpose and design of each information
collection.
Estimated average number of
responses: The program does not
identify the average number of
responses because that number will
differ in each individual survey. For
most surveys, each respondent will be
asked to respond only one time, so in
those cases the number of responses
will be the same as the number of
respondents.
Estimated average burden hours per
response: The program does not identify

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the average burden hours per response
because that number will differ from
individual survey to individual survey,
depending on the purpose and design of
each information collection.
Frequency of Response: Most
individual surveys will request only 1
response per respondent.
Estimated annual reporting burden:
The program identifies the requested
total number of burden hours annually
for all of the surveys to be conducted
under its auspices to be 15,000 burden
hours per year. The total annual burden
per survey for most surveys conducted
under the auspices of this program
would be within the range of 50 to 200
hours.
Dated: February 28, 2007.
Leonard E. Stowe,
NPS, Information Collection Clearance
Officer.
[FR Doc. 07–1478 Filed 3–26–07; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Ellis Island Development Concept
Plan, Final Environmental Impact
Statement, Statute of Liberty National
Monument and Ellis Island, New York
and New Jersey
National Park Service,
Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Availability of Final
Environmental Impact Statement for
Ellis Island Development Concept Plan,
Statute of Liberty National Monument
and Ellis Island.

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AGENCY:

SUMMARY: Pursuant to National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42
U.S.C. 4332(2)(C), the National Park
Service announces the availability of a
Final Environmental Impact Statement
for the Ellis Island Development
Concept Plan, Statute of Liberty
National Monument and Ellis Island,
New York and New Jersey. The primary
purpose of the FEIS is to finalize the
documentation of the environmental
consequences of alternative
management strategies for the
rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of 30
deteriorating buildings on Ellis Island,
and the limited service and emergency
access that are described in the
preferred alternative of the Development
Concept Plan.
The Development Concept Plan/Final
Environmental Impact Statement (DCP/
FEIS) evaluates three (3) alternatives
regarding the future of the vacant
historic buildings of Ellis Island.
‘‘Alternative 1: No Action—

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Continutation of Existing Management
Direction,’’ describes the conditions
after only temporary stabilization of the
buildings and the existing vehicular
service bridge. The eventual result of
the no action alternative is the complete
or near-complete loss of these resources
as the effects of temporary stabilization
expire. This alternative provides the
basis of comparison to judge the
potential impacts of the two ‘‘action’’
alternatives. Both action alternatives
would include a new service bridge to
New Jersey for emergency and service
vehicles; the no action alternative
would not. ‘‘Alternative 2: Ellis Island
Partners—Day Use Only,’’ describes
conditions that would result after the
buildings are rehabilitated as a campus
for multiple non-profit/institutional
uses complimenting the historic of Ellis
Island ‘‘Alternative 3: Ellis Island
Institute with Overnight
Accommodations’’ (the preferred
alternative), describes the conditions if
the buildings were rehabilitated as an
educational, non-profit institute with an
associated conference/retreat center.
The facilities would include overnight
accommodations to host meetings,
retreats, and workshops primarily
focusing on issues such as immigration,
world migration, public health, family
history, historic preservation, and the
environment. The preferred alternative
would accomplish the goals and
objectives set forth in the NPS 1982
Statute of Liberty National Monument
General Management Plan which
identified several major buildings on the
north side of the island for
rehabilitation and reuse by the NPS for
interpretation, visitor services and
administration (subsequently completed
utilizing private funds raised by the
Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island
Foundation), and proposed that the
balance of the buildings on the island,
including all of the south-side
buildings, be preserved on the exteriors
and adapted for reuse by either the NPS
or a private organization under a lease
agreement or concession contract.
The DCP/FEIS documents the
project’s requirements to comply with
NPS Director’s Order 21 and the
Partnership Construction Process, as
well as the requirement for additional
analysis to confirm the economic and
programmatic viability of the proposed
action. The results of these studies will
guide the scope, design and build-out of
this project. If the project is determined
by the NPS to not be economically
feasible, the NPS will consider
alternatives for management of Ellis
Island taking into account the
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analysis and feasibility studies and
other facts then available. This further
consideration of alternatives will be
conducted in accordance with
applicable requirements of the National
Environmental Protection Act and the
National Historic Preservation Act (as
amended).
The release of the Development
Concept Plan/Draft Environmental
Impact Statement in June 2003, and
publication of the Notice of Availability
in the Federal Register on June 25, 2003
began a 60-day review period of the
draft document. During that review
period, the National Park Service held
two public meetings to provide agencies
and the public an opportunity to
comment on the draft document. During
the public comment period on the draft
document, comments were received in
the form of letters, cards, and emails.
Written and verbal comments were
submitted at public hearings. All
substantive comments have been
addressed in the ‘‘Consultation and
Coordination’’ chapter of the DCP/FEIS.
The National Park Service will
execute a Record of Decision (ROD) no
sooner than 30 days following
publication by the Environmental
Protection Agency of the Notice of
Availability of the Final Environmental
Impact Statement. Availability of the
ROD will be noticed in the Federal
Register and the NPS will subsequently
move forward with the NPS’ Partnership
Construction Process and other required
reviews for a partnership project.
Following the ROD, the NPS will also
begin consultation, planning and
environmental analysis for the
permanent bridge.

DATES:

Information will be
available for public inspection on line at
http://parkplanning.nps.gov and in the
offices of the Superintendent, Statute of
Liberty NM and Ellis Island, Liberty
Island, New York, NY 10004, where
copies of the document are available in
print and on compact disc.

ADDRESSES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Superintendent, Statute of Liberty
National Monument and Ellis Island,
Ellis Island Receiving Office, Jersey
City, NJ 07305. (212) 3663–3206) Ext.
100), [email protected].

Dated: January 25, 2007.
Dennis R. Reidenbach,
Acting Regional Director, Northeast Region,
National Park Service.
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