[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 97 (Monday, May 21, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 28464]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-2506]



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ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION


Notice of Army 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, and World War II and 
Cold War Era (1939-1974) Army Ammunition Production Facilities and 
Plants 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 Army 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, and World War II and 
Cold War Era (1939-1974) Army Ammunition Production Facilities and 
Plants 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 Army'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 World War II and 
Cold War Era (1939-1974) Army Ammunition Production Facilities and 
Plants, and the availability of the final Environmental 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.denis.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.

SUPPLEMENTAL 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 the Army a Program Comment for 
World War II and Cold War era (1939-1974) Army Ammunition Production 
Facilities and Plants, and 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 
Army ammunition production facilities (Army Real Property category 
group 226XX) built between 1939 and 1974, all properties built between 
1939 and 1974 at Army Ammunition Plants, 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 four 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 Army has 
taken into account the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation's 
Program Comment for World War II and Cold War era (1939-1974) Army 
Ammunition Production Facilities and Plants, the 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 Army 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.A. Treatment measures vary by 
property type. For Cold War era Unaccompanied Housing, the Army will 
prepare a publicly available version of the existing context entitled 
``Unaccompanied Personnel Housing (UPH) During the Cold War (1946-
1989).'' For World War II and Cold War era Ammunition Storage 
Facilities, the Army will prepare a Historic Context on ammunition 
storage facilities that covers the Cold War era; a context entitled 
``Army Ammunition and Explosive Storage in the United States, 1775-
1945'' already exists. The Army will also prepare documentation of 
ammunition storage facilities at nine installations, six of which have 
World War II-era properties, and three of which have Cold War era 
properties. For the World War II and Cold War era Army Ammunition 
Facilities and Plants, the Army will prepare a Historic Context, and 
develop documentation of selected architecturally significant 
ammunition production facilities and Plants at two installations. 
Finally, the Army will prepare a display and popular publication on the 
ammunition production process, from production to storage. The full 
text of the Program Comments can be found on the DENIX Web site at 
http://www.denix.osd.mil/ProgramAlternatives.
    The Army 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. The Army considered all public 
comments received on the draft before finalizing the EA and FONSI. 
Copies of the final EA and FONSI are available at http://www.denix.osd.mil/ProgramAlternatives.

    Authority: 36 CFR 800.14(e)

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