36100 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 123 / Monday, June 28, 2004 / Notices

Cara Cowan ...... YEA recommend actions to correct numerous FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Buel Anglen ...... YEA safety hazards, provide continued safe Superintendent Chas Cartwright at 970– William G. Johnson ...... YEA access for employees and visitors, 374–3001 or e-mail: Charles ‘‘Chuck’’ Hoskin ...... YEA accommodate special needs for [email protected]. accessibility, and if feasible, maintain [FR Doc. 04–14558 Filed 6–25–04; 8:45 am] SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: You may the integrity of the National Historic BILLING CODE 4310–4J–P mail comments to: Superintendent’s Landmark. Office, Dinosaur National Monument, This project poses the possibility of 4545 E. Highway 40, Dinosaur, CO DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR significant adverse impacts on the 81610–9724. You may also hand-deliver Quarry Visitor Center. The probability comments to the Superintendent’s of significant adverse impacts on a Office, Dinosaur National Monument, Quarry Visitor Center, Environmental national historic landmark and possible Dinosaur, CO. (Attn: Quarry Visitor Impact Statement, Dinosaur National significant adverse impact on currently Center Environmental Impact Monument, CO and UT undiscovered buried fossil resources Statement). Our practice is to make requires the preparation of an comments, including names and home AGENCY: National Park Service, environmental impact statement and an addresses of respondents, available for Department of the Interior extensive public involvement process public review during regular business ACTION: Notice of Intent to prepare an throughout the project. hours. Individual respondents may environmental impact statement for the The park superintendent will initiate request that we withhold their home Quarry Visitor Center, Dinosaur consultation with congressional address from the record, which we will National Monument. delegations and state and local agencies honor to the extent allowable by law. If on the environmental impact statement. SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National you wish us to withhold your address, Consultation with these agencies will Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42 you must state this prominently at the continue throughout the planning and U.S.C. 4332, the National Park Service beginning of your comment. We will design process. (NPS) is preparing an environmental make all submissions from impact statement (EIS) for the Quarry Public involvement in the planning organizations or businesses, and from Visitor Center for Dinosaur National process will include newsletters that individuals identifying themselves as Monument. This effort will analyze the inform the public of the project and representatives or officials of impacts of a broad range of design provide opportunities for input; press organizations or businesses, available alternatives to stabilize, rehabilitate, or releases in the local media; open houses for public inspection in their entirety. replace the historic Quarry Visitor to present and solicit input on the Dated: April 29, 2004. design alternatives; a public review Center at Dinosaur National Monument. Michael D. Snyder, Constructed in 1956–57, the Quarry draft of the design document and environmental impact statement and Deputy Director, Intermountain Region, Visitor Center protects and provides National Park Service. public meetings to provide additional visitor access and interpretation of ‘‘the [FR Doc. 04–14546 Filed 6–25–04; 8:45 am] greatest quarry of Jurassic dinosaurs in opportunities to comment on the design BILLING CODE 4312–CR–P the world.’’ The building has been alternatives and the analysis of their designated a National Historic environmental impacts. A public forum Landmark for its relationship to the for comment on the full range of design DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service ‘‘’’ alternatives will be provided throughout program and as an outstanding example the course of the EIS process. Public National Park Service of Mission 66 ‘‘Park Service Modern’’ involvement is essential for the architectural design. development of creative and sustainable National Capital Memorial Advisory The building has experienced design alternatives for the Quarry Commission; Notice of Public Meeting problems with foundation movements Visitor Center. The director, since its construction. The building Intermountain Region, National Park AGENCY: Department of the Interior, suffers extensive structural distress due Service will approve the environmental National Park Service, National Capital to differential movements between impact statement. Memorial Advisory Commission. foundations elements that bear on A briefing statement has been ACTION: Notice of meeting. moisture sensitive expansive clay strata. prepared that summarizes the specific Attempts to stabilize the building have elements of the design project and the SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that a been ongoing for 40 years with major EIS. Copies of that information may be meeting of the National Capital projects undertaken in 1967 and during obtained from: Superintendent, Chas Memorial Advisory Commission (the the 1980s. Despite these efforts, the Cartwright, Dinosaur National Commission) will be held on Thursday, building continues to deteriorate and Monument, 4545 E. Highway 40, July 29, 2004, at 1:30 p.m., at the present safety concerns and costly Dinosaur, CO 81610–9724. National Building Museum, Room 312, ongoing maintenance issues. A historic 5th and F Streets, NW., Washington, DC. DATES: The Park Service will accept structures report (HSR) was prepared in The purpose of the meeting will be to comments from the public through July 2003 to evaluate the visitor center’s discuss currently authorized and 28, 2004. existing condition and assess potential proposed memorials in the District of treatments to stabilize the building. ADDRESSES: Information will be Columbia and its environs. In addition This proposed project will analyze a available for public review and to discussing general matters and broad range of design alternatives, comment in the office of the conducting routine business, the including the treatments proposed in Superintendent, Chas Cartwright, Commission will review the status of the HSR, for the stabilization, Dinosaur National Monument, 4545 E. legislative proposals introduced in the rehabilitation, reconstruction, or Highway 40, Dinosaur, CO 81610–9724, 108th Congress to establish memorials replacement of the Quarry Visitor (970) 374–3001 or e-mail: in the District of Columbia and its Center. This project will also [email protected]. environs, as follows:

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