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Show Squaw Park Environmental Impact Statement Available for tlevievj The National Park Service Ser-vice announced Wednesday Wednes-day that the final environmental envir-onmental impact statement state-ment for proposed Squaw Flat - Confluence Over- look Road in Canyonlands National Park is avail- able to the public. The statement, required requir-ed by law, was prepared by the park service. It considers the environmental environ-mental impact of construction con-struction of a proposed 9.7 mile road in the Needles Need-les District of the southeastern south-eastern Utah park. J. Leonard Volz, dir-ecto dir-ecto r of the service's midwest region in Omaha, Oma-ha, Neb., said a master plan for the park which was approved in 1966, first recommended the road proposal. Volz said visitors are often disappointed dis-appointed when they find they can only get to the fringes of the park. If they wish to get into the park, they must go to either ei-ther Monticello or Moab and hire a four-wheel drive vehicle. The proposed road will provide v isilor access via passenger car to a representative rep-resentative portion of the Needles section of the park. Here they will be afforded panoramic views of the massive Wingate Cliffs of the Island in the Sky, Dead Horse Point State Park, and the White Rim sandstone. Besides benefits such as the ones v isitors would realize from such a road, the statement considers such adverse impacts ?s scarring of the landscape within the construction limits li-mits and loss of a variety var-iety of shrubs and trees when the road alignment is cleared. Copies of the statement state-ment are available from or can be inspected at the following locations: Office of the Superintendent, Superinten-dent, Canyonlands National Nat-ional Park, Moab, Utah 84532; or Midwest Regional Reg-ional Office, .National Park Service, 1709 Jackson Jack-son St., Omaha, Nebraska Nebras-ka 68102. |