[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 127 (Monday, July 2, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 34949]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-16544]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Anacostia Park General Management Plan; Public Notice

    In accordance with section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969, the National Park Service (NPS) is preparing an 
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to assess the impacts of 
alternative management strategies for the General Management Plan (GMP) 
for Anacostia Park, Washington, DC.
    The GMP/EIS will evaluate a range of alternatives that address 
cultural and natural resources protection, socioeconomic concerns, 
traffic and pedestrian circulation, and visitor use.
    Public involvement will be a key component in the preparation of 
the GMP/EIS.
    As part of the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative (AWI), NPS is 
conducting a GMP for Anacostia Park. This riverine park is composed of 
a series of 8 areas that are better known by their individual names. 
They are Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, Kenilworth Park, River Terrace, 
Fairlawn/Twining, Boathouse Row, Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Stadium 
Shoreline, the Arboretum Shoreline and Langston Golf Course. All of 
these areas lay along the Anacostia River between the 11th Street 
Bridges and the Maryland State line. The areas are collectively named 
and managed as Anacostia Park. The purpose of this GMP/EIS is to give 
vision and unity of purpose as well as functional specificity these 
areas.
    A separate planning effort is being undertaken for Poplar Point. 
This is an area of approximately 100 acres that involves lands under 
the jurisdiction of NPS and the District of Columbia. Sixty acres of 
this is composed of lands transferred to NPS in 1984 from the Architect 
of the Capitol and the District of Columbia that had used these 
properties for plant nursery purposes for 65 years. The Act of Congress 
which transferred these lands provided for a joint planning process 
between the Secretary of the Interior and the Mayor of the District of 
Columbia which was to include transportation facilities related to the 
Metro stop and other uses to be determined by the planning process. 
Although this area will become part of the family of parks that are a 
part of Anacostia Park, its unique circumstance at this point in time 
requires a separate planning process as part of the AWI. The plan will 
also be accompanied by an EIS.
    The RFK Stadium and its parking lots are on lands under the 
jurisdiction of NPS but are leased to the District of Columbia for 49 
years with another 49-year renewable clause as provided for in Public 
Law 85-300 as amended (September 7, 1957). This law retained a strip of 
land, a minimum of 200-feet wide, along the shoreline as parkland that 
will be addressed as part of the GMP/EIS. The remainder of the RFK 
Stadium property will be included in the AWI planning.
    The responsible official is Terry R. Carlstrom, Regional Director, 
National Capital Region, NPS. Written comments should be submitted to 
Superintendent of National Capital Parks--East, 1900 Anacostia Drive, 
SE., Washington, DC--20020.

Terry R. Carlstrom,
Regional Director, National Capital Region.
[FR Doc. 01-16544 Filed 6-29-01; 8:45 am]
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