Notice of Intent To Prepare a Shoreline Restoration and Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Indiana

Résumé

Pursuant to Section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)), the National Park Service (NPS) is announcing its intent to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) for a Shoreline Restoration and Management Plan (SRMP) for Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore (Park), Indiana. The EIS will be approved by the Regional Director, Midwest Region. The SRMP will prescribe the resource conditions and restoration activities that are to be achieved and maintained for the shoreline over the next 15 to 20 years. The SRMP will outline what must be achieved based on review of the Park's purpose, significance, special mandates, and the body of laws and policies that direct Park administration. Based on determinations of restoration endpoints necessary to achieve the NPS mission in context of the southern Lake Michigan Shoreline, the SRMP will outline the kinds of resource management and restoration activities that would be appropriate in the future. A range of reasonable management alternatives will be developed and the quantitative and science-based impacts will be assessed through this planning process and will include, at a minimum, no-action and the