[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 93 (Friday, May 15, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22959-22960]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-11378]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


General Management Plan/Environmental Assessment, Carter G. 
Woodson Home National Historic Site, District of Columbia

AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the 
General Management Plan, Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site.

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SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act, 
the National Park Service (NPS) is preparing an Environmental 
Assessment (EA) for the General Management Plan (GMP) for Carter G. 
Woodson Home National Historic Site. The GMP will prescribe the 
resource conditions and visitor experiences that are to be achieved and 
maintained in the national historic site over the next 20 years. Based 
on determinations of desired conditions, the GMP will outline the kinds 
of resource management activities, visitor activities, land acquisition 
and development that would be appropriate in the park in the future. 
The responsible official for the EA is the Regional Director, National 
Capital Region. To date, the NPS has conducted two public scoping 
meetings.

DATES: As part of the initial planning efforts, the NPS initiated 
public scoping for this project on October 2, 2008, with a public 
scoping meeting held at the 93rd Annual Association for the Study of 
African American Life and History (ASALH) Convention in Birmingham, 
Alabama. An additional public scoping meeting was held in the District 
of Columbia on November 12, 2008. The NPS will continue public scoping 
for an additional 45 days from the date of publication of this notice 
in the Federal Register.

ADDRESSES: There are two opportunities to formally comment on the 
project--during this public scoping period and again following release 
of the draft

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GMP/EA. You may submit comments on the NPS's Planning, Environment, and 
Public Comment (PEPC) Web site at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/cawo. 
Comments on this proposed action may also be mailed or hand-delivered 
to: Superintendent Gayle Hazelwood, c/o GMP for the Carter G. Woodson 
Home National Historic Site, National Capital Parks East, 1900 
Anacostia Drive, SE., Washington, DC 20020-6722.
    Before including your address, phone number, e-mail address, or 
other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be 
aware that your entire comment--including your personal identifying 
information--may be made publicly available at any time. Although you 
can ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying 
information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be 
able to do so. We will make all submissions from organizations, 
businesses, or individuals identifying themselves as representatives or 
officials of organizations or businesses, available for public 
inspection in their entirety.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Superintendent Gayle Hazelwood, 
National Capital Parks East, at 1900 Anacostia Drive, SE., Washington, 
DC 20020-6722, by telephone at (202) 690-5127, or telefax at (202) 690-
1425. Information will also be available online throughout the scoping 
and planning process at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/cawo.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic 
Site is in Washington, DC. Congress authorized the site on December 19, 
2003, and charged NPS with the responsibility to acquire and manage the 
site in accordance with this Act and with 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 (16 U.S.C. 461 et 
seq.). The enabling legislation also states that the Secretary of the 
Interior may acquire any of the three properties immediately north of 
the Carter G. Woodson Home, may enter into an agreement with public or 
private entities to restore and rehabilitate the Woodson Home and other 
properties within the boundary, and may enter into cooperative 
agreements with public or private entities to provide public 
interpretation and education of African-American heritage in the Shaw 
area of the District of Columbia. Further, the legislation allows the 
Secretary of the Interior to ``* * * enter into an agreement with The 
Association for the Study of African-American Life and History that 
allows the association to use a portion of the historic site for its 
own administrative purposes.''
    Alternatives will be developed through this planning process. Major 
issues considered during this process will include the protection and 
interpretation of the Carter G. Woodson Home, adaptive re-use of 
historic structures, quality of visitor experience, land acquisition, 
and potential relationships with The Association for the Study of 
African American Life and History and other potential agencies, 
organizations, and local interests.

    Dated: April 27, 2009.
Margaret O'Dell,
Regional Director, National Capital Region.
[FR Doc. E9-11378 Filed 5-14-09; 8:45 am]
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