[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 171 (Friday, September 3, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 48420]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-23028]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


National Capital Memorial Commission Notice of Public Meeting

    Notice is hereby given in accordance with the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act that a meeting of the National Capital Memorial 
Commission (the Commission) will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 
September 23, 1999, at the National Building Museum, Room 312, 5th and 
F Streets, NW., Washington, D.C.
    The purpose of the meeting will be to discuss currently authorized 
and proposed memorials in the District of Columbia and environs.
    In addition to discussing general matters and routine business, the 
agenda is expected to include the following:
    I. Consultation: Memorial proponents will consult with the 
Commission on aspects of these authorized memorials:
    Site selection alternatives for the Benjamin Banneker Memorial 
along the L'Enfant Promenade.
    The Commission will consider these matters and take action as 
appropriate in order to advise the Secretary of the Interior (the 
Secretary).
    II. Review of Legislation: The Commission will review the following 
legislative proposals:
    S. 311 and H.R. 1509, bills to authorize the Disabled Veterans LIFE 
Foundation to establish a memorial in the District of Columbia or its 
environs to honor veterans who became disabled while serving in the 
Armed Forces of the United States.
    III. The Commission will continue deliberations on a draft report 
of its review of the Commemorative Works Act of 1986. This report was 
requested by the Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic Preservation, 
and Recreation, United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources. The Commission will review recommendations offered by the 
National Capital Planning Commission/National Capital Memorial 
Commission/Commission of Fine Arts Joint Task Force on Memorials which 
convened, in part, to assist in an evaluation of that Act.
    The Commission was established by Public Law 99-652, the 
Commemorative Works Act, to advise the Secretary and the Administrator, 
General Services Administration, (the Administrator) on policy and 
procedures for establishment of (and proposals to establish) 
commemorative works in the District of Columbia and its environs, as 
well as such other matters as it may deem appropriate concerning 
commemorative works.
    The Commission examines each memorial proposal for conformance to 
the Commemorative Works Act, and makes recommendations to the Secretary 
and the Administrator and to Members and Committees of Congress. The 
Commission also serves as a source of information for persons seeking 
to establish memorials in Washington, D.C., and its environs.
    The members of the Commission are as follows:

Director, National Park Service
Chairman, National Capital Planning Commission
Architect of the Capitol
Chairman, American Battle Monuments Commission
Chairman, Commission of Fine Arts
Mayor of the District of Columbia
Administrator, General Services Administration
Secretary of Defense

    The meeting will be open to the public. Any person may file with 
the Commission a written statement concerning the matters to be 
discussed. Persons who wish to file a written statement or testify at 
the meeting or who want further information concerning the meeting may 
contact Ms. Nancy Young, Executive Secretary to the Commission, at 
(202) 619-7097.

    Dated: August 30, 1999.
Joseph M. Lawler,
Regional Director, National Capital Region.
[FR Doc. 99-23028 Filed 9-2-99; 8:45 am]
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