Notice of Availability of Final Director's Order #77-1: Wetland Protection and Final Procedural Manual #77-1: Wetland Protection

Résumé

The National Park Service (NPS) is converting and updating its current system of internal instructions in conformance with a new system of NPS internal guidance documents. As part of this process, the NPS recently made available for public review and comment (63 FR 45254) a draft Director's Order #77-1: Wetland Protection and a draft Procedural Manual #77-1: Wetland Protection. The Director's Order will revise NPS policies, standards, and requirements for implementing Executive Order 11990: Protection of Wetlands, and the Procedural Manual will establish NPS procedures for implementing the Director's Order within units of the National Park System. The public review period for the Director's Order and Procedural Manual ended on September 24, 1998. Comments received during this period have been carefully considered and have been incorporated into the documents, as appropriate (see SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION). The comments were mostly related to clarifying certain points in the Director's Order and Procedural Manual, and did not result in any substantive changes to the policies, requirements, standards, or procedures proposed in the draft documents. The NPS now announces the availabili