Notice of Extension of Public Comment Period for a Study Recommending a Timbisha Shoshone Tribal Homeland in and Around Death Valley National Park Inyo County, California and Esmeralda and Nye Counties, Nevada

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Notice of Extension of Public Comment Period for a Study

Recommending a Timbisha Shoshone Tribal Homeland in and Around Death

Valley National Park Inyo County, California and Esmeralda and Nye

Counties, Nevada

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 705(b) of the 1994 California Desert

Protection Act (P.L. 103-433), the National Park Service, Department of

the Interior convened a joint Federal-Tribal negotiating team to

prepare a draft suitability report to Congress regarding establishment

of a permanent Timbisha Shoshone Tribal land base in and around Death

Valley National Park. In deference to public interest expressed to date

from local government agencies, organizations, and other interested

parties, the original public comment period expiring June 15, 1999 has

been extended an additional 30 (thirty) calendar days to July 15, 1999.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Written comments on the draft document must

now be received or post-marked not later than July 15, 1999, and should

be directed to the Superintendent, Death Valley National Park, P.O. Box

579, Death Valley, CA 92328; phone (760) 786-3243. The study document

and other background information are available as noted above, or may

be obtained via the park website (www.nps.gov/deva).

Dated: June 8, 1999.

Sondra S. Humphries,

Acting Regional Director, Pacific West.

[FR Doc. 99-15214 Filed 6-14-99; 8:45 am]

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