Plan Process

The National Park Service is evaluating the requests by the Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the R.D. Merrill Company to obtain road use permits to roads within Olympic National Park for commercial use to access their lands west of Lake Crescent for timber management activities. This process will likely require the preparation of an environmental assessment. The National Park Service is currently scoping to determine the range of issues and alternatives to be addressed in the environmental assessment.

* indicates the current step in the planning process
Step 1. Permit request received
Step 2. Internal review of permit application
Step 3. Public scoping for issues
Step 4. Review public comments and identify issues and alternatives
Step 5. Determine appropriate level of compliance
Step 6. Prepare compliance document *
Step 7. Public review of compliance document
Step 8. Analysis of public comments
Step 9. Prepare decision document
Step 10. Release final decision to public

Public scoping ended on November 10. The NPS is currently working with DNR and the R.D. Merrill Company to address issues and concerns brought forward during scoping, and to begin the preparation of the environmental assessment.