National park releases draft air tour management plan

Kelsey Walling/Tribune-Herald file photo Tour groups and visitors look at the eruption in the Halemaʻumaʻu crater in 2022 at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

Bob Ernst

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The National Park Service and Federal Aviation Administration on Monday released a draft Air Tour Management Plan (ATMP) and an associated draft Environmental Assessment mandated by a 2020 law and ordered by a federal appeals judge in 2020 in response to a lawsuit by a community group.