Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 17.09.1996

Draft General Management Plan/Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Public Meeting; Saint Croix Island International Historic Site

Pursuant to section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the National Park Service (NPS) announces the availability of the draft general management plan/draft environmental impact statement for Saint Croix Island International Historic Site, the only international historic site (IHS) in the National Park Service. In 1604, Pierre Dugua Sieur de Mons and 78 other men, including Samuel Champlain, established a colony on St. Croix Island in the St. Croix River, now the boundary between Maine, U.S.A., and New Brunswick, Canada. Isolation and a harsh winter severely tested the colonists. Almost half died of scurvy before mild weather brought Native peoples to the island with fresh game, and a supply vessel arrived from France. Sieur de Mons moved his colony to a more favorable setting at Port Royal in what is now the Annapolis Basin, Nova Scotia. St. Croix Island was authorized as a national monument in 1949, dedicated in 1968, and redesignated an international historic site in 1984. A memorandum of understanding between Canada and the United States recognizes the international significance of the site and commits both nations to joint planning and commemoration. T