[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 39 (Tuesday, February 28, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 10869]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-4805]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Meeting of Sub-committee on Design Competition 
Package.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces an upcoming meeting of the Indian 
Memorial Advisory Sub-Committee producing the Design Competition 
Package. Notice of this meeting is required under the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Public Law 92-463).

MEETING DATE AND TIME: Thursday, March 2, 1995, 1:30--5:00 pm.; and 
Friday, March 3, 1995, 8:00--12:00 a.m., and 1:30--5:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: American Institute of Architects (AIA), Denver Chapter 
Office, 1526 15th Street, Denver, Colorado 80202: (303) 446-2266.

THE AGENDA OF THIS MEETING WILL BE: Continue work begun by the Indian 
Memorial Advisory Committee and the National Park Service Support Team 
to produce a package that establishes the structure, rules, processes 
that will guide an upcoming national design competition for the 
creation of a memorial to the Indian participants in the 1876 conflict 
at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, located at Crow 
Agency, Montana. This meeting will incorporate help from a select group 
of four architects under the sponsorship of the AIA. The architects 
will provide professional insight into formulating and managing design 
competitions and will help steer the final decisions of the sub-
committee. The components of the meeting will consist of a review of 
project progress to date and discussion/decisions about; competition 
staging; advertising and promotional strategies; applicant 
registration, rules, and fees; design competition language; design 
criteria; base data needs and format; evaluation criteria; jury 
composition and scoring/selection alternatives; stipends for finalists; 
awards and commendations (amounts and categories); competition and 
design development schedule; and transforming the final design into a 
finished product.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Advisory Committee was established under 
Title II of the Act of December 10, 1991, for the purpose of advising 
the Secretary on the site selection for a memorial in honor and 
recognition of the Indians who fought to preserve their land and 
culture at the Battle of Little Bighorn, on the conduct of a national 
design competition for the memorial, and ``* * * to ensure that the 
memorial designed and constructed as provided in section 203 shall be 
appropriate to the monument, its resources and landscape, sensitive to 
the history being portrayed and artistically commendable.''

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Barbara A. Booher, Indian Affairs 
Coordinator and Indian Advisory Committee Liaison, National Park 
Service, Rocky Mountain Regional Office, 12795 W. Alameda Parkway, P.O. 
Box 25287, Denver, Colorado 80225-0287 (303) 969-2511.

    Dated: February 9, 1995.
Gerard Baker,
Superintendent, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, 
Designated Federal Official, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 95-4805 Filed 2-27-95; 8:45 am]
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