Notice of Availability of the Draft Stage I Assessment Plan for the Kalamazoo River Environment Site Natural Resource Damage Assessment

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Notice is given that the draft "Stage I Assessment Plan [for the] Kalamazoo River Environment Site" is available for public review and comment. The public comment period started with local newspaper notices and placement of the document at repositories at the Allegan Public Library, Charles Ransom Library, Kalamazoo Public Library, Otsego District Library, Saugatuck-Douglas Library, and Waldo Library on November 20, 2000. The U.S. Department of the Interior ("Department"), the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, the Michigan Attorney General, and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are acting as co-trustees for natural resources considered in this assessment plan, pursuant to subpart G of the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan, 40 CFR 300.600 and 300.610, and Executive Order 12580. The assessment plan describes the first stage of a natural resource damage assessment which the trustees are conducting pursuant to the Natural Resource Damage Assessment Regulations found at 43 CFR Part 11. The public review of the assessment plan announced by this Notice is provided for in 43 CFR 11.32(c)(1). Interested members of the public