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Change in Filene Center Smoking Policy & Landscape Modifications to Designate Smoking Areas
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The project has been reviewed for impacts to natural and cultural resources by the park's Interdisciplinary Team. The project does not pose any serious or long-term effects to environmental, historical, cultural, archeological, or visual resources. It meets several Categorical Exclusion categories. The change in the smoking policy itself is addressed by two items under D, Actions Related to Visitor Use:
• #1, "Minor changes in amounts or types of visitor use for the purpose of ensuring visitor safety or resource protection in accordance with existing regulations."
• #2, "Minor changes in programs and regulations pertaining to visitor activities."
The changes to the smoking policy are minor and necessary to protect non-smoking visitors from second-hand smoke, and to comply with the federal smoking policy.
The installation of lighting and fencing in the two designated smoking areas are addressed by four items under Category C, Actions Related to Development:
• For installation of directional and identification signs for the smoking areas: #5, "Installation of signs, displays, and kiosks."
• For designation of the two smoking areas as places where people walk and stand for smoking: #12, "Minor trail relocation or development of compatible trail networks on logging roads or other established routes."
• For the installation of lighting and fencing: #17, "Minor landscaping in areas showing clear evidence of recent human disturbance," and #18, "Installation of fencing enclosures, exclosures, or boundary fencing posing no effect on wildlife migrations."
A categorical exclusion was signed by the park Director, William Crockett, on April 17, 2007.