[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 97 (Monday, May 21, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28462-28463]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-2504]


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ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION


Notice of Department of the Air Force Adoption of Program 
Comments for Cold War Era (1946-1974) Unaccompanied Personnel Housing, 
World War II and Cold War Era (1939-1974) Ammunition Storage Facilities 
from the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and Notice of 
Availability of Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No 
Significant Impact

AGENCY: Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.

ACTION: Notice of Department of the Air Force Adoption of Program 
Comments for Cold War Era (1946-1974) Unaccompanied Personnel Housing, 
World War II and Cold War Era (1939-1974) Ammunition Storage Facilities 
from the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and Notice of 
Availability of Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No 
Significant Impact.

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SUMMARY:  This provides notice of the Air Force's adoption of the 
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation's Program Comments for Cold 
War Era Unaccompanied Personnel Housing (1946-1974), World War II and 
Cold War Era (1939-1974) Ammunition Storage Facilities, and the 
availability of the final Environment Assessment and Finding of No 
Significant Impact for the actions.

DATES: This Program Comment goes into effect on May 21, 2007.

ADDRESSES: To obtain copies of the Program Comments, the final EA and 
signed FONSI, visit Defense Environmental Network Information eXchange 
(DENIX) Web site at https://www.denix.osd.mil/ProgramAlternatives. 
Address all comments concerning these Program Comments to David 
Berwick, Army Program Manager, Advisory Council on Historic 
Preservation, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Suite 803, Washington, DC 
20004. Fax (202) 606-8672. [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dave Berwick (202) 606-8505.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 106 of the National Historic 
Preservation Act requires Federal agencies to consider the effects of 
their undertakings on historic properties and provide the Advisory 
Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) a reasonable opportunity to 
comment with regard to such undertakings. ACHP has issued the 
regulations that set forth the process through which Federal agencies 
comply with these duties. Those regulations are codified under 36 CFR 
part 800 (``Section 106 regulations'').
    Under Section 800.14(e) of those regulations, agencies can request 
ACHP to provide a ``Program Comment'' on a particular category of 
undertakings in lieu of conducting individual reviews of each 
individual undertaking under such category, as set forth in 36 CFR 
800.4 through 800.6. An agency can meet its Section 106 
responsibilities for those undertakings by taking into account ACHP's 
Program Comment and by following the steps set forth in those comments.
    On August 18, 2006, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation 
approved and issued to the Department of Defense a Program Comment on 
World War II and Cold War era (1939-1974) Ammunition Storage 
Facilities, and a Program Comment on Cold War era (1946-1974) 
Unaccompanied Personnel Housing. The Program Comments pertain to all 
buildings and structures designed and built as ammunition storage 
facilities (DoD Real Property category group 42XXXX) within the years 
1939-1974, and all buildings and structures that were designed and 
built as Unaccompanied Personnel Housing (DoD Real Property category 
group 72XXXX) in the years 1946-1974. The Program Comments include 
treatment measures for the following undertakings for these two 
categories of properties: ongoing operations, maintenance and repair; 
rehabilitation; renovation; mothballing; cessation of maintenance, new 
construction, demolition; deconstruction and salvage; remediation 
activities; and transfer, sale, lease, and closure of such facilities. 
The Department of the Air Force has taken into account the Advisory 
Council on Historic Preservation's Program Comment on World War II and 
Cold War era (1939-1974) Ammunition Storage Facilities, and the Program 
Comment on Cold War era (1946-1974) Unaccompanied Personnel Housing, 
and accepts and adopts these Program Comments. The Department of the 
Air Force ensures that the effects of these undertakings on these 
categories of historic properties is taken into account by execution of 
the steps identified as treatment measures in the Program Comments, 
Sections II.B. Treatment measures vary by property type. For Cold War 
era Unaccompanied Housing, the Department of the Air Force will prepare 
a supplemental context study that will be an appendix to the Army's 
existing study, ``Unaccompanied Personnel Housing (UPH) During the Cold 
War (1946-1989).'' For World War II and Cold War era Ammunition Storage 
Facilities, the Department of the Air Force will prepare a supplemental 
historic context study that will be an appendix to the Army's existing 
context study, ``Army Ammunition and Explosives Storage in the United 
States, 1775-1945''. The Department of the Air Force will also document 
a representative sampling of the basic types of above-ground and earth 
covered ammunition storage facilities at three geographically dispersed 
locations that offer the greatest number and variety of resources 
constructed during the cold war. The Department of the Air Force will 
also prepare documentation of Cold War era Unaccompanied Personnel 
Housing at three geographically dispersed locations that offer the 
greatest number and variety of resources constructed during the Cold 
War. The full text of the Program Comments can be found on the DENIX 
Web site at https://www.denix.osd.mil/ProgramAlternatives.
    The Department of the Air Force also announces the availability of 
the final Environmental Assessment (EA) and signed Finding of No 
Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Program Comment process. Notice of 
the availability of the draft EA and FONSI was published in the Federal 
Register on October 26, 2004, Vol. 69, No. 206, pp. 62431-62432. With 
the Army as lead agency, the Department of the Air Force considered all 
public comments

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received on the draft before finalizing the EA and FONSI.

    Authority: 36 CFR 800.14(e)

    Dated: May 16, 2007.
John M. Fowler,
Executive Director.
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