Santa Rosa Island Resources Management Plan; Channel Islands National Park, California; Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Santa Rosa Island Resources Management Plan; Channel Islands

National Park, California; Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact

Statement

Summary: The National Park Service will prepare a Santa Rosa Island

Resources Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (SRI-RMP/EIS)

for Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands National Park, California and is

initiating the scoping process for this project. This notice is in

accordance with 40 CFR 1501.7 and 40 CFR 1508.22, of the regulations of

the President's Council on Environmental Quality for the National

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, Public Law 91-190.

Background

This planning effort is intended to supplement and expand upon the

parkwide Resources Management Plan, which was approved in 1994 and

focused primarily on research, inventory/monitoring, and project needs.

The primary objective of the current planning process is to prepare an

RMP/EIS specific to Santa Rosa Island which analyzes and selects

management actions to accomplish three primary objectives: (1) To

conserve and restore rare plant and animal species, as well as the

habitats upon which they depend, (2) to ensure that non-native plant

species will not threaten restoration of rare species and their

habitats, and (3) to ensure that management of non-native ungulates

(e.g., cattle, deer, elk, horses) and island infrastructure (e.g.,

roads and culverts) will protect or recover riparian habitat and water

quality sufficiently to ensure compliance with the Clean Water Act. In

addition, since Santa Rosa Island has yet to be reviewed for

suitability as wilderness (pursuant to the Wilderness Act and Public

Law 96-199), all proposed management actions will be evaluated in terms

of their impact on wilderness suitability.

Supplementary Information: Persons wishing to express concerns or

provide information on the above management issues and proposed future

management direction of Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands National

Park may address these to the Superintendent, Channel Islands National

Park, 1901 Spinnaker, Ventura, California 93001. Public scoping

sessions will be scheduled and additional information given via press

release and notices distributed to area libraries. The first scoping

session will be held in Fall, 1995 in Ventura, California. Questions or

comments regarding this Notice of Intent or the final schedule and

location of scoping sessions should be addressed to the Superintendent,

either by mail or by telephone at 805/658-5700.

The responsible official is Stanley T. Albright, Field Director,

Pacific West Area, National Park Service. The draft SRI-RMP/EIS is

expected to be available for public review in Winter-Spring 1995-96.

Dated: September 1, 1995.

Stephen G. Crabtree,

Acting Field Director, Pacific West Area.

[FR Doc. 95-22941 Filed 9-15-95; 8:45 am]

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