PEPC and Parkplanning will be offline Weds. May 8th starting at 7 AM MT for scheduled maintenance. Expected downtime is up to three hours.

Public involvement is a critical part of the project planning and development process. The National Park Service considers public involvement essential to ensure that the action taken by the NPS provides the greatest benefit to the park environs. Public Involvement provides an opportunity for individuals, representatives of civic groups, public agencies, and governing bodies to offer comments, submit written material, ask questions regarding the proposed project, as well as become informed of the schedule for future events in the process.

Comments will be accepted via mail, submitted through this PEPC website, or hand-delivered. Please send us your comments by December 16, 2005. If you wish to submit comments by mail please send them to:

Brien Culhane
Everglades National Park
Attn: Airboat Contracts Scoping Comments
40001 State Road 9336
Homestead, FL 33034

It is the practice of the NPS to make all comments, including names and addresses of respondents, available for public review following the close of the public comment period. However, individual respondents may request that the NPS withhold their name and/or address from the record, which NPS will honor to the extent allowable by law. If you wish for your name and/or address to be withheld, you must state this prominently at the beginning of your comment.

* indicates the current step in the planning process

Step 1. Internal scoping
Step 2. Define purpose and need/develop preliminary alternatives
Step 3. Public scoping *
Step 4. Refine alternatives
Step 5. Identify environmental impacts and select preferred alternative
Step 6. Prepare draft plan/environmental document
Step 7. Public review of draft plan/environmental document
Step 8. Analysis of public comment
Step 9. Prepare final plan/decision document
Step 10. Release final plan/decision document to the public