[Federal Register: May 21, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 97)]
[Notices]
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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. dberwick@achp.gov.
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.
[FR Doc. 07-2504 Filed 5-18-07; 8:45am]
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