[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 68 (Monday, April 9, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18502-18503]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-8690]


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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 Thursday, April 
26, 2001, 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.

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    In addition to discussing general matters and routine business, the 
Commission will review:

Action Items

(1) Site Selection

    (a) Alternative site study for the plaque to be placed at the 
Vietnam Veterans Memorial honoring post-war casualties of the Vietnam 
War (Public Law 106-215, June 14, 2000).
    (b) Alternative site study for the plaque to be placed at the 
Lincoln Memorial commemorating the ``I Have a Dream'' speech of Martin 
Luther King, Jr. (Public Law 106-365, October 2, 2000).

(2) Legislative Proposals

    (a) Pyramid of Remembrance (Soldiers lost during peacekeeping 
operations) (H.R. 282, January 30, 2001).
    (b) Vietnam Veterans Memorial Education Center (S. 281 and H.R. 
510, February 7, 2001).
    (c) Memorial to Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
    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 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: March 19, 2001.
Joseph M. Lawler,
Deputy Regional Director, National Capital Region.
[FR Doc. 01-8690 Filed 4-6-01; 8:45 am]
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