[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 64 (Thursday, April 3, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16266-16267]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-8122]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army


Notice of Program Comment for Capehart and Wherry Era Army Family 
Housing and Associated Structures and Landscape Features (1949-1962), 
from the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD.

ACTION: Notice of comment.

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SUMMARY: This provides notice of the Advisory Council on Historic 
Preservation's Program Comment to the Department of the Army for 
Capehart and Wherry Era Army Family Housing and Associated Structures 
and Landscape Features (1949-1962), in accordance with 36 CFR 
800.14(e)(5)(i), ``Protection of Historic Properties; Final Rule.''

ADDRESSES: To obtain copies of the Program Comment, contact the U.S. 
Army Environmental Center, ATTN: SFIM-AEC-PA (Mr. Robert DiMichele), 
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010-5401.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Lee Foster, 703-693-0675.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 31, 2002, the Advisory Council on 
Historic Preservation approved and issued to the Department of the 
Army, Program Comment for Capehart and Wherry Era Army Family Housing 
and Associated Structures and Landscape Features (1949-1962). The 
Program Comment pertains to all Army family housing constructed between 
1949 and 1962 (i.e., the Capehart and Wherry Era), and includes 
treatment measures for the following undertakings for Capehart and 
Wherry Era housing, associated structures, and landscape features: 
maintenance and repair; rehabilitation; layaway and mothballing; 
renovation, demolition; demolition and replacement; and transfer, sale 
or lease out of Federal control. The Department of the Army has taken 
into account the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation's Program 
Comment for Capehart and Wherry Era (1949-1962) Army Family Housing, 
Associated Structures, and Landscape Features, and accepts and adopts 
that Program Comment. The Department of the Army ensures that the 
effects of these undertakens on this category of historic property is 
taken into account by execution of the steps identified as treatment 
measures in the Program Comment, Section II.b. Treatment measures 
include an expanded Historic Context of Capehart and Wherry Era Army 
Family Housing, Neighborhood

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Design Guidelines, and Video Documentation. The full text of the 
Program Comment can be found in the Council's Notice of Approval, 
published in the Federal Register on June 7, 2002, Vol. 167, No. 110, 
pp. 39332-39335.

    Dated: March 25, 2002.
Raymond J. Fatz,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Environment, Safety and 
Occupational Health), OASA (I&E).
[FR Doc. 03-8122 Filed 4-2-03; 8:45 am]
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