[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 38 (Monday, February 27, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 9834]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-1732]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


National Capital Region; Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic 
Site, Designation as a Unit of the National Park System

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Designation of Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site, 
Washington, DC as a unit of the National Park System.

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SUMMARY: Under and by virtue of the authority conferred upon the 
Secretary of the Interior by section 3 of the Carter G. Woodson Home 
National Historic Site Act of December 19, 2003 (117 Stat. 2873), the 
property at 1538 Ninth Street, NW., Washington, DC, with the structure 
thereon, is established and designated a unit of the National Park 
System having the name ``Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic 
Site.'' The administration, protection and development of this national 
historic site shall be exercised by the National Park Service in 
accordance with the provisions of the authorizing legislation as well 
as laws generally applicable to units of the National Park System, 
including the Act of August 25, 1916 (16 U.S.C. 1, 2-4) and the Act of 
August 21, 1935 (49 Stat. 666; 16 U.S.C. 461-467). Warning is expressly 
given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy, 
deface, or remove any feature of this historic site.

DATES: February 27, 2006 is the date of the establishment of the Carter 
G. Woodson Home National Historic Site in accordance with Public Law 
108-192 (117 Stat. 2873, December 19, 2003).

ADDRESSES: The Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site is 
administered as a site under the management of the Superintendent, 
National Capital Parks--East, 1900 Anacostia Drive, SE., Washington, DC 
20020.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Superintendent Gayle Hazelwood, 
National Capital Parks--East, 1900 Anacostia Drive, SE., Washington, DC 
20020, Telephone (202) 690-5185.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Whereas the Congress of the United States 
has declared it to be a national policy to preserve for the public use 
historical sites, buildings, and objects of national significance for 
the inspiration and benefit of the people of the United States, and 
whereas the Congress has recognized that:
    (1) Dr. Carter G. Woodson, cognizant of the widespread ignorance 
and scanty information concerning the history of African Americans, 
founded on September 9, 1915, the Association for the Study of Negro 
Life and History, since renamed the Association for the Study of 
African-American Life and History.
    (2) The Association was founded in particular to counter racist 
propaganda alleging black inferiority and the pervasive influence of 
Jim Crow prevalent at the time.
    (3) The mission of the Association was and continues to be 
educating the American public of the contributions of Black Americans 
in the formation of the Nation's history and culture.
    (4) Dr. Woodson dedicated nearly his entire adult life to every 
aspect of the Association's operations in furtherance of its mission.
    (5) Among the notable accomplishments of the Association under Dr. 
Woodson's leadership, Negro History Week was instituted in 1926 to be 
celebrated annually during the second week of February. Negro History 
Week has since evolved into African American History Month.
    (6) The headquarters and center of operations of the Association 
was Dr. Woodson's residence, located at 1538 Ninth Street, NW., 
Washington, DC.
    Congress, therefore, on October 24, 2000, directed a resource study 
of the Dr. Carter G. Woodson Home and headquarters of the Association 
for the Study of African-American Life and History, located at 1538 
Ninth Street, NW., Washington, DC, to identify the suitability and 
feasibility of designating the Carter G. Woodson Home as a unit of the 
National Park System.
    Upon its consideration of that completed study and the 
recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) that the 
Carter G. Woodson Home should be made a unit of the National Park 
System, the Congress directed to the Secretary to establish the Carter 
G. Woodson Home National Historic Site as a unit of the National Park 
System by publication of a notice to that effect in the Federal 
Register upon the acquisition of the Carter G. Woodson Home. The 
Secretary was granted authority to acquire the Carter G. Woodson Home 
and any of three properties immediately to its north located at 1540, 
1542, and 1544 Ninth Street, NW., described on the map entitled 
``Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site'', numbered 876/82338-A 
and dated July 22, 2003.

    Dated: February 17, 2006.
Gale A. Norton,
Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 06-1732 Filed 2-24-06; 8:45 am]
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