[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 158 (Tuesday, August 15, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49831-49832]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-20636]


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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, 
September 5, 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 consider:

Action Items

(a) H.R. 4800, A bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to 
identify appropriate lands within the area designated as Area I of the 
Mall in Washington, DC, as the location of a future memorial to former 
President Ronald Reagan.
(b) H.R. 4581, a bill to authorize the Homeward Bound Foundation to 
establish the Middle Passage National Monument.
(c) National Capital Planning Commission Memorials and Museums Master 
Plan.
(d) S. 2919 and H.R. 4957, bills to extend the legislative authority 
for the Black Patriots Foundation to establish a commemorative work.
(e) H.R. 4583, a bill to extend the legislative authority for the Air 
Force Memorial Foundation to establish a memorial to the United States 
Air Force.

Informational Items

(A) Public Law 106-214, authorizing the placement of a plaque within 
the site of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to honor those Vietnam 
Veterans who died after their service in the Vietnam War, but as a 
direct result of that service.
(a) Public Law 106-19, establishing the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial 
Commission.

    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
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

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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 Nancy Young, Executive 
Secretary to the Commission, at (202) 619-7097.

    Dated: August 8, 2000.
Terry R. Carlstrom,
Regional Director, National Capital Region.
[FR Doc. 00-20636 Filed 8-14-00; 8:45 am]
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