[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 35 (Tuesday, February 22, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8736-8737]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-4053]


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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 1 p.m. on Tuesday, March 7, 
at the National Building Museum, Room 312, 5th and F Streets, NW., 
Washington, DC.
    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 
Commission will review:
    (a) S. 1921 and H.R. 3292, bills to authorize the placement, within 
the site of the Vietnam Veterans memorial, of a plaque to honor Vietnam 
veterans who died after their service in the Vietnam war, but as a 
direct result of that service.
    (b) H.R. 2879, a bill to provide for the placement at the Lincoln 
Memorial of a plaque commemorating the speech of Martin Luther King, 
Jr., known as the ``I have Dream'' speech.
    The Commission will also continue deliberations of its review of 
the Commemorative Works Act of 1986. This review was requested by the 
Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation, 
United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. The 
Commission's review is in conjunction with the National Capital 
Planning Commission/National Capital Memorial Commission/Commission of 
Fine Arts Joint Task Force on Memorials which convened to coordinate 
the evaluation of the 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, DC., 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

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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: February 14, 2000.
Terry R. Carlstrom,
Regional Director, National Capital Region.
[FR Doc. 00-4053 Filed 2-18-00; 8:45 am]
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