[Federal Register: May 21, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 97)]
[Notices]
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ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Notice of Department of Navy 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 Navy 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 provide notice of the Navy'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 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.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 review 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 Navy 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 ear (1946-1974) Unaccompanied Personnel Housing, and
accepts and adopts these Program Comments. The Department of the Navy
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 Navy 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 Navy will prepare a supplemental
historic context study that will an appendix to the Army's existing
context study, ``Army Ammunition and Explosives Storage in the United
States. 1775-1945''. The Department of the Navy will also prepare
documentation of ammunition storage facilities at four installations,
to include three Navy installations and one Marine Corps installations.
The Department of the Navy will also prepare documentation of Cold War
era Unaccompanied Personnel Housing at four installations, to include
three Navy installations and one Marine Corps installation. The full
text of the Program Comments can be found on the DENIX Web site at
https://denix.osd.mil/programAlaternatives.
The Department of the Navy 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 Navy considered all
public comments 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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