[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 59 (Monday, March 29, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 14936]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-7559]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Office of the Secretary


Notice of Proposed Relocation of Jeanne d'Arc Statue, Place de 
France, New Orleans, LA; Extension of Comment Period

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Interior.

ACTION: Extension of time for filing public comments

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SUMMARY: The Office of the Secretary requested public comment on 
February 18, 1999 (64 Federal Register 8110-02) on a request from the 
City of New Orleans, Louisiana to relocate the Place de France, a 
statue of Jeanne d'Arc and two bronze cannons, currently located in the 
median between the International Trade Mart Building and the former 
Rivergate, to a new location in the Vieux Carre (the French Quarter), a 
National Historic Landmark District. At that time a comment period was 
announced and scheduled to end on March 22, 1999. Pursuant to a request 
to extend the deadline for filing comments, the Office of the Secretary 
has extended the deadline for comments by an additional fifteen (15) 
days in order to provide additional time for the public to review and 
provide comments to the Office of the Secretary.

DATES: The Department of the Interior will accept comments through 
April 6, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: Ms. Juliette 
Falkner, Director, Office of Executive Secretariat, Department of the 
Interior, 1849 C Street, NW. Mail Stop 7229, Washington, DC 20240.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Geraldine Smith, Superintendent, 
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, 365 Canal Street, 
Suite 2400, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130-1142, (504) 589-3882 (not a 
toll free number).
John Berry,
Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget, Department of 
the Interior.
[FR Doc. 99-7559 Filed 3-26-99; 8:45 am]
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