[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 117 (Monday, June 19, 1995)] [Notices] [Pages 32023-32024] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 95-13624] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Notice of Availability and Notice of Public Hearing on a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended, the Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service has prepared a draft [[Page 32024]] environmental impact statement (DEIS) on the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge Comprehensive Management Plan, Adams County, Colorado. The DEIS describes four alternatives for managing the Refuge, and discloses each alternative's environmental effects. A public hearing will be held to receive comments from interested agencies, organizations and individuals on the analysis contained in the DEIS. DATES: Written comments concerning the analysis will be accepted August 3, 1995 at the address below. A public meeting will be held on June 27, 1995 at 7 p.m. at the location indicated below. ADDRESSES: Copies of the DEIS may be reviewed at the following locations: Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Building 613, Commerce City, CO 80022-1748 Fish and Wildlife Service Regional Office, 134 Union Blvd, Lakewood, Colorado 80225 Denver Public Library-Central, 1357 Broadway, Denver, Colorado Denver Public Library-Montbello, 12955 Albrook Drive, Denver, Colorado Commerce City Public Library, 72nd and Monaco, Commerce City, Colorado Public Meeting Red Lion Hotel, 3203 Quebec Street, Denver, CO 80207. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dave Shaffer, Planning Coordinator, (303) 289-0232. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge Act of 1992 (Public Law 102-402) establishes the Rocky Mountain Arsenal as a National Wildlife Refuge following environmental cleanup, and provided authority for the Fish and Wildlife Service to manage the area as if it were a National Wildlife Refuge during the cleanup process. Pursuant to the Department of Interior's Departmental Manual implementing the National Environmental Policy Act, the Fish and Wildlife Service is preparing a Comprehensive Management Plan for the Refuge and an Environmental Impact Statement on the Plan. The Plan will guide the development of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. Ray Rauch, Project Leader, will be the responsible official. The Fish and Wildlife Service believes it is important to give reviewers notice at this early stage of guidance provided by several court rulings related to public participation in the environmental review process. Reviewers of draft environmental impact statements must structure their participation in the environmental review of the proposal so that it is meaningful and alerts an agency to the reviewer's position and contentions. Judicial review may waive or dismiss objections that could have been raised at the draft environmental impact statement stage, but that were not raised until after completion of the final environmental impact statement. Terry T. Terrell, Acting Regional Director, Region 6, Denver, Colorado. [FR Doc. 95-13624 Filed 6-16-95; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310-55-M